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.

Birobugs 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 li-ine



Break-in, stake out, tell it in code

Everything is legal, anything goes

The nights gettin' darker and the ill wind blows

Your life's in a databank at ASIO



Trained in the ghettos of the Lebanon, truncheons and an M16

Selling skag, a U.N. flag, now he's trading in securities



Darwin rendezvous, a B-52, trenchcoat slightly creased

From a coup in Asia, A U.S. Air Force major

Buying dirty laundry, swearin' it's for peace



Infiltration, we'll never know

Just like Chile but the bruises don't show-ow



Break-in, stake out, tell it in code

Everything is legal, anything goes

The nights get darker and the ill wind blows

Your life's in a databank at ASIO



Spook behind the bar, unmarked car, rumour hangs like stale perfume

Flushing under beds, sniffin' 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-oor



Break-in, stake out, tell it in code

Everything is legal, anything goes

The nights get darker and the ill wind blows

Your life's in a databank at ASIO