Come Fly In Fly Out With Me

I don't need your degrees in forty degrees
Summer heat beat down on BlueRapta sunnies
I break my body for a hole dug to burn more coal
And I spend every payday at the same watering hole
They give me pills for the pain and I'm back on the tools
Been six months since mum and dad called me a fool
Bank balance still zero but I live like a king
Crown took all my money but still I can sing

I'll keep searching for the job that gets me somewhere I can stand up
On my two feet I can dream of my own house I'll forfeit later

And when it comes tumbling down
I'll be on the first airplane out of town
Card in the red, but face full of mirth
The flight attendant smiles says 'next stop, Perth'

Don't tell me I made a mistake
I dropped out of high school it was make or break
Hold a sign in the heat for 50 bucks an hour
Blow it all on cocaine and back in eight hours
My mother always said I was young and fit
But the mines made all my mates paraplegics
'That's the way it goes' said the foreman as he sat
In the aircon office with the fire warden's hat
The boss makes a dollar while I make a dime
So I warm the crack pipe on company time
Then tool around in a scissor lift trying to find
A good reason I'm still in this desert alive
But the sea of sand makes me feel mad
Am I a real man if I say I miss my dad
I can imagine him now, 'I told you so'
But he'd still forgive me and let me live at home