WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN

If I stood here when they first did
I wouldn't have imagined this
I wouldn't have done that, or that or this
You know what I would have done?
I would have laid back in the sun
With the birds and trees down by down that junk filled stream

What could have been
If we didn't do it like we did
I often dream of what could've been
If we'd only done things differently

We smashed this sacred cliff face,
Quarried up its nose
Punched it into shapes of architectural homes
They say the dreamtime's over
And we should wake up to progress
I say we wake up and we realise what we've made's a mess

What could have been, What could have been
If we didn't do it like we did
I often dream of what could've been
If we'd only done things differently

But it is what it is babe and it's home to me
Even with the mess we've made of it I'm thankful I'm from here
Each day i'm grateful that the sun shines through that ozone hole
And wherever I pump gasoline I get the smell of home

What could have been. What could have been
If we didn't do it like we did
I often dream, of what could've been
If they'd only done things
If we'd only done things
If I'd only done things a differently