someone is digging a hole in me
biggest ever this time! wow!
I’m paying a billion dollars for this
(lazy billion, don’t you know)
the hole they’re digging in me makes fumes
smells bad, it leaves an ugly mess
kills everything all around
oh well – that’s me for self-esteem
I’m paying a million bucks
it’s like I’m trying to make friends
you’d think there was something killing me
and doctors had to cut it out
but it’s not like that at all
the hole they’re digging is a threat to life
people will die like flies from the smoke
we know because they’re dying already
from all the other holes in me
and in everyone else
you’d think it was a money spinner
but I’m paying to get it done
it’s true they’ve dug big ones in me before
but this one is the biggest yet
in fact it’s the biggest hole in the world
why is it they’re digging this hole?
why do I pay them to?
people ask what’s wrong with me
the hole’s to make a fire
fire’s holy
it’s for a church of smoke
I believe!
I’m doing it all for old King Adani
the peasant king
great man
they’re digging the biggest hole in the world
I pay them to dig it in me
the sun must have burnt a hole in my head
this hole will be burning my pocket soon
I have to be insane
so many of me
backs into it
the wheel must roll on!
the hole must be dug
the biggest in the world!
this way I’ll burn till we’re all a lot warmer
they’re digging for what’s deep down in me
what’s that?
a billion dollars digging
my money
I’m paying for this to be done
it’s a loan
but I don’t think I’ll see the money come back
none of the banks thinks so
none of the banks will lend to the king
but look at the ships queuing up for the port
they’re taking me away to burn
my fire will light up half the world
you won’t see through the smoke
don’t you point the finger at me
I’m not doing it
it’s my job
I pay for it to be done
I’m mad?
and the sea is dark with it
nothing lives there
and the sky is smoke
my lungs and yours
we’re all going to burn so bright
no one will see through the haze
a billion dollars worth of burning
it’s nothing
it’s the cheapest solution
you don’t want to pay more
do you?
not for a great big hole
the biggest!
I can’t help saying it again
the biggest!
the biggest hole ever!
they’re digging it in me
I’m so proud
you’d think there was something
we had to bury
more fire!
more smoke!
more damage than ever before!
it’s because it’s so big
we just have to do it
if you want an omelette, breaks eggs
don’t argue
or you can stay out of the kitchen
let’s see just how high this sea can go
we’re making more ocean views?
everyone’s a winner
there’ll be more for everyone to swim
it’s the fossils who are doing the digging
we have to pay for it too
because, if they don’t dig this hole in me
they’ll dig in someone else
and that, my friends, would be very bad indeed
they’ll dig there anyway, they will
they might as well dig a hole in me
they say he’s a gangster
the big man with moustache
we’re giving the money
oh sage old king
just look at him
and see how wise
you’d be a fool not to have the hole dug
he’s offering to handle it all
only a billion!
we dig
that’s all we have to do
just give him the money
then we can dig the hole in me
they say that he’s done it before
but that can’t be true
this is one of a kind
the hole they’re digging in me
it’s the biggest one ever
lazy billion’s worth, I said
overseas, the poor, they deserve this great pit –
the dirty great hole they’re digging me
with this, they can choke to death in good light
such is the hole that they’re digging in me
they’re going to dig
you can’t stop them
how can you stand in the way of a king?
and the sea is coal
and the sky is coal
and your heart’s as dark as mine
you couldn’t vote for this sort of thing
I must really hate myself
to let them dig this hole like this
but isn’t it the gangster’s right –
to come to the end of the world
and be given my lazy billion to dig
to dig a hole in me?
we mustn’t say no to the future
there’s so much sun in Queensland
they’re digging a hole in me
I think that it’s time
to stand up and say
do you think
we’ll wake up in time?