I'm still in awe At how you pulled it all off And driving through the drylands Seeing irrigators installed I think about the coup You turned the rules on themselves You engineered that miracle To free the water underground They said you'd never take the council down But you just found your way around Called it a national crisis You were in bed with the press You understood from experience how to Make it fast and hard to digest oh you Left them dumbfounded, unemployable Chose their replacements yourself All their science from the cities couldn't keep you From the water underground They said you'd never take the council down But you just found your way around Nine years out of power You had time to think it out She was one of those friends Followed the rabbit hole to its end And you knew what it meant To get involved And the industry couldn't help you No, none of the farmers who owed you They let you fight in that pit alone But with elections still on hold With the cattle turning up by the truckload You can hear the drills working now On that water underground