ASIO - Redgum
White door ninth floor
Silent number
It's autumn on a cold avenue
Telex intercept
He sips a cigarette
Warms up his V.D.U.
He gets his kicks from microchips
Orders from the C.I.A.
Biro bugs and lasers
Casual surveillance
Boardrooms and communiques
Don't use your phone
And don't use mine
Don't speak treason
They're tapping the line
Break-in stake out
Tell it in code
Everything is legal
Anything goes
Nights getting darker
And the I'll wind blows
Your life's in a databank at ASIO
Trained in the ghettos of the Lebanon
Truncheons and an M16
Selling skag
U.N. Flag
Now he's trading in securities
Darwin rendezvous
B-52
Trench coat slightly creased
From a coup in Asia
U.S. air force major
Buying dirty laundry
Swearing it's for peace
Infiltration
We'll never know
Just like chile
But the bruises don't show
Break-in stake out
Tell it in code
Everything is legal
Anything goes
Nights get darker
And the I'll wind blows
Your life's in a databank at ASIO
Spook behind the bar
Unmarked car
Rumour hangs like stale perfume
Flushing under beds
Sniffing out the reds
Nobody can feel immune
No names no stress
No blame no press
Clean when the dirty work's done
Allocate a budget
Special branch thugs
Do it for the practice
Do it for the fun
Midnight flashlight
Crash on the door
Rats on the table
Blood on the floor
Break-in stake out
Tell it in code
Everything is legal
Anything goes
The nights get darker
And the I'll wind blows
Your life's in a databank at ASIO
