White door ninth floor silent number
It's autumn on a cold avenue
Telex intercept, sips a cigarette
Warms up his VDU
He gets his kicks from microchips
His orders from the CIA
Biro bugs and lasers, casual surveillance
Of boardrooms and communiques
Don't use your phone and don't use mine
Don't speak treason, they're tapping the lines
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
Trained in the ghettos of Lebanon
Truncheons and an M16
Selling' scag, UN flag
Now he's trading in securities
Darwin rendezvous, B52
Trench coat'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
Rumors hang like stale perfume
Flushing' under beds, sniffing' 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 thug
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 the ill wind blows
Your life's in a databank in ASIO