Lyrics to
Stand In Line

This version of Stand In Line was released by Midnight Oil in 1979.

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Oh get down, getting down, so much money in the ground
For the people who don’t deserve it now
It’s a circus we’re the clowns as the giant ones disown
Every bit of something we call home

Said it’s a pity ’bout the middle class Holden mass
We get a bit to play around with doesn’t really matter
They kid us with their dole, kid us with the dope
But generally speaking, nobody’s got a hope

We’re playing the music of the middle-aged queens
Getting fatter and fatter and splitting their jeans
It’s all the same, we’re out in the cold
The good ones died, the others just got old
Everything’s set, everything’s fine
You just got to stand in line
Oh everything’s set, everything’s fine
You just got to stand in line

Getting down, getting down, we have to make it now
Everybody’s beaten, everybody’s down, oh everybody’s down
So goodbye to the creeps who are making it
Goodbye to the let it happen stand
I’m moving out got no doubt they’ve forgettn twist ‘n’ shout
They never ever listen to the man

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About Lyrics and Stand In Line by Midnight Oil

The lyrics for Stand In Line are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Midnight Oil. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Stand In Line have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Stand In Line - Midnight Oil and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Stand In Line by Midnight Oil in multiple 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 Stand In Line" means the words set to the music of Stand In Line, 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 Stand In Line and the lyrics to Stand In Line 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 Stand In Line, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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