Red Gum – Asio lyrics

White door ninth floor silent number
It's autumn on a cold avenue
Telex intercept, he sips a cigarette
Warms up his feed to you
He gets his kicks from microchips
His orders from the CIA
Birobugs and lasers, casual survellance
Of 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
The night's getting darker and an ill wind blows
Your life's in a databank at ASIO

Trained in the ghettos of Lebanon
Truncheons and an M16
Sellin' scag, UN flag
Now he's trading in securities
Darwin redevous, B52
Trenchcoat's slightly creased
From a coup in Asia, US 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
The night's getting darker and the ill wind blows
Your life's in a databank in ASIO

Spook behind the bar, unmarked car
Rumours hang like stale perfume
Flushin' under beds, sniffin' out the reds
Nobody can feel immune
And 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, a crash on the door
The rats on the table, blood on the floor
Break in, stake out, tell it in code
Everything is legal, anything goes
The night's getting darker and an ill wind blows
Your life's in a databank in ASIO