Xavier Rudd - Spirit Bird (Bing Lounge)
Spirit bird.. Give it time and wonder why
do what we can laugh an 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
Spirit bird she creaks and groans
she knows she has, seen this all before she has,
seen this all before.
Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has,
seen this all before she has, seen this all before.
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 youve 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 hearless man
deceiving man 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 weve seen it all before
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