Lyrics to
No Reaction

This version of No Reaction was released by Midnight Oil in 1979.

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What do we want, we are going to be the winners or the losers?
And who do we hear, do we listen to the beggars or the choosers?

We’re getting no reaction
We haven’t heard a word
You’re almost (but not quite)
More than we deserve

So what do we want, are we going to be the does or the talkers?
And where do we go, can we separate the runners from the walkers?
So what do we do, do we want to be the givers or the takers?
And who do we hear, do we listen to the movers or the makers?

So so what do we want, who do we hear?
Where do we go and what can we do?
And what would you say if it was all up to you?

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Midnight Oil has released many songs over the years besides No Reaction. 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 No Reaction by Midnight Oil

The lyrics to No Reaction are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Midnight Oil used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to No Reaction have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Midnight Oil and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to No Reaction by Midnight Oil. 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 No Reaction" means the words set to the music of No Reaction, 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 No Reaction and the lyrics to No Reaction 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 No Reaction, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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