作词 : Xavier Rudd

作曲 : Xavier Rudd

Give it time and wonder why

Do what we can laugh we cry

And we sleep in your dust because we've seen this all before

Culture fades with tears and grace

Leaving us stunned hollow with shame

We have seen this all, seen this all before

Many tribes of a modern kind,

Doing brand new work, same spirit by side,

Joining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine

Many tribes of a modern kind,

Doing brand new work, same spirit by side,

Joining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine

Slowly it fades

Slowly we fade

Slowly you fades

Slowly you fade

Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has,

Seen this all before she has, seen this all before she has

Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has,

Seen this all before she has, seen this all before she has

Slowly you fade

Slowly it fades

Slowly you fade

Slowly you fade

Slowly you fade

Soldier on soldier on my good country man

Keep fighting for your culture,

Now keep fighting for your land

I know its been thousands of years

And I feel your hurt and I know its wrong

And you feel you've been chained and broken and burned

And those beautiful old people

Those wise old souls have been ground down for far too long

By that spineless that greedy man that hearless man deceiving man

That government hand taking blood and land taking blood and land and still they can

But your dreaming and your warrior spirit lives on and it is so so so strong

In the earth in the trees in the rocks in the water

In your blood and in the air we breath

Soldier on soldier on my good country man,

Keep fighting for your children now keep fighting for your land

Slowly it fades

Slowly you fade

Slowly it fades

Slowly it fades

Give it time and we wonder why

Do what we can laugh and we cry and we sleep in your dust because we've seen it all bef