Give it time and wonder why do what we can
laugh and we cry and we sleep in your dust
because we've seen this all before.
Culture fades with tears and grace leaving us stunned
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 hands
and ancestral twine, ancestral twine.
Slowly it fades. Slowly we fade
Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has,
seen this all before she has, seen this all before she has.
Slowly it fades. Slowly you fade
Slowly it fades. 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 man, that greedy man, that heartless 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 we fade, slowly you fade, 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 this all before...
Xavier Rudd, Spirit bird