Lyrics to
Profiteers

This version of Profiteers was released by Midnight Oil in 1979.

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Look up on the ledge, there’s a bomber diving on the golden street
Down below the crowd is falling, bullets under feet

Don’t tell me, don’t tell me, hey don’t tell me
We’re under the beat of a brand-new marching order
Ears to be ground there’s a party planned for the new recruits
Hurricane lamps are burning, teargas fills the route, yeah

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Midnight Oil has released many songs over the years besides Profiteers. 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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The lyrics to Profiteers are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Midnight Oil in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Profiteers are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Midnight Oil and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Profiteers back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Profiteers by Midnight Oil in a number of ways. 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 Profiteers" means the words set to the music of Profiteers, 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 Profiteers and the lyrics to Profiteers 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 Profiteers, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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