Hard Times In Melbourne Lyrics

Come around friends there's a party at mine

Get your deep seeded thoughts

Get your bottles of wine

Get yourself some shelter from the storming hell

From a little southern city that we all know well

Hard times in the city

Living out in Melbourne now

A thousand K's away from an Opera House

Got the Eureka Tower got the sporting grounds

Mr. Premier be sitting in a corporate box

Politicians doing nothing but be blaming us

Hard times in the city

Living out in Melbourne now

Out and about trying to find a place to stay

Rents to high unless your parents help you pay

Old terrace house so cold you got to shiver

Make you want to jump inside the Yarra River

Hard times in the city

Living out in Melbourne now

Waking up early going to find yourself a job

Stay back late to show them that you love

They won't pay you what your worth

They'll pay you what they can

Till your boss drives home in a Mercedes Benz

Hard times in the city

Living out in Melbourne now

Meet me outside Flinders underneath them clocks

Start at the top and go down to the docks

Go and see the art see the flora and fauna

Until you hop on a tram inspector got you in the corner

Hard times in the city

Living out in Melbourne now

Running round the town we're on stolen land

We forget about the ones who called it theres

We took it all away on a one-way track

If I had my way I'd give it all right back

Hard times in the city

Living out in Melbourne now