Lyrics to
Dust

This version of Dust was released by Midnight Oil in 1978.

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It’s 2 am in Town Hall Station
Black walls and sleeping drunks
Are bad companions
Ice is there
Fear is there
Everyone is nowhere there’s too much of nothing
Take me away

It’s 9 am in Town Hall Station
Flashing faces and grey herds no comparison
So sorry
So straight
Everyone is nowhere there’s too much of nothing
Take me away

It’s 2 am…

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Midnight Oil has released many songs over the years besides Dust. Midnight Oil released songs from 1978 to 2002 spanning across albums like Midnight Oil, Head Injuries, Bird Noises, Place Without A Postcard, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Red Sails In The Sunset, Species Deceases, Diesel And Dust, Blue Sky Mining, Earth And Sun And Moon, Breathe, Redneck Wonderland, and Capricornia. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Midnight Oil.

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About Lyrics and Dust by Midnight Oil

When you decide to study the lyrics to Dust, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Midnight Oil. Some of the lyrics to Dust have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Midnight Oil and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Dust if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Dust" means the words set to the music of Dust, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Midnight Oil. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Dust and the lyrics to Dust are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Midnight Oil who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dust, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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