Redgum - Still Life video free download

Redgum's fifth album, Frontline, was released in August 1984.

By 1984, the Redgum line-up comprised Schumann, Truman, Atkinson, McDonald, Stephen Cooney (bass,didgeridoo, mandolin, banjo), Michael Spicer (piano) and Brian Czempinski (drums).

Lyrics

The axe is swift and reckless

Feel the grain and split it wide

Cut away to build the mansions

Of banks and boards in distant hands

The axeman looks to the sun

Covered eyes, blind to silence.

The future is eroding,

The sacred past destroyed

No damning feats of progress

Comfort the unemployed.

The earth is shred and skun

Fortune seekers hit and run.

Barren earth, poisoned skies,

Wasted seas,

Will we see the light

Through the trees,

Before the last axe falls.

A sweet breeze of rage is blowing,

From the forest to the town.

Slowly the tide is turning

With love the seed is sown.

No time for feeling helpless,

We've change to make,

While there's still life.

Lessons learnt too quickly fade,

From memories,

Will we see the light through the trees

As the last axe falls