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1788
The year was 1788
Big white clouds on the horizon
The kooris watched in disbelief
As Australia was stolen away
So look out Sydney Harbour,
There’s nothing you can do
Here comes an English man
With a brand new law for you
If it moves, shoot it dead
If not just chop it down.
The gun and the axe, the grog and the pox, were bound for Botany Bay
An older land, a wiser hand almost swept away
How could you celebrate that day?
Land rights now for Aborigines, Makaratta Treaty is what we need
The bloodshed of colonial times will haunt us night and day
Till we reconcile the people of Australia
Look to the south on a crystal winter night, You’ll see two stars pointing the way to the Southern Cross. And what’s that supposed to mean? It’s Australia for you
The pointers are two big white cockatoos, the Cross is an old gum tree
Put there to show what we all know, Humanity must live within the land.
Children of the southern land, awaken and arise. Cast off your worn out colonial lies
There’s an ancient land for you If you’ll only accept it and sing to your country
Australia
One day we found our way to Uluru
In the middle of everywhere The rock is alive, Uluru
Shimmering stone. The fire in the heart, Uluru
So high so wide, in the midday sun, Uluru
Big red fire in the heart
Bring us home and make us one
Wedge tail feather in the blood red soil
Dreaming trails collide in Uluru
For forty thousand years
One hundred thousand years
Six hundred million years
Two hundred years
Big red fire in the heart
Bring us home and make us one
Wedge tail feather in the blood red soil
Dreaming trails collide in Uluru
Rainbow snake
The rainbow snake is alive today
So hey brother, now sister
Where do you come from?
Your back is scarred but not yet broken, Hey brother, now sister
Remember where you’re from
The rivers, trees and starry sky
Say get back to the land
The deserts sigh, the mountains cry
Your heart is in the land.
So hey, son, Catch my shadow
Sun is smouldering
Dirt, honey brown, we take you down
Into the Blue Golden Fire
I drove from Perth to Sydney across this big country.
It went up and down in places, but it was flat as the wide blue sea.
The world is flat, The country is flat The plains are flat, Gravity what’s that?
Some people say that the world is round. How crazy is that? The people on the other side would all fall off - Bye bye England, Bye bye America
Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilee, Copernicus and Kepler and Newton -Why couldn’t you see?
The sun and the moon go round and round High up above the trees. If we lived so fast we’d all fall off. Isn’t that plain to see?
So come on out to the Western Plains and have a look round with me. Tell me if you think its flat or round, I’m sure you will agree
The world is flat, the country is flat. The plains are flat, Gravity what’s that?
I would die one thousand deaths for you Live one thousand lives. I would do anything to hold you in my arms so let your loving shine.
I would sail across the Pacific Sea just to see what I could find, And bring it home again and I’d give it all to you, so let your loving fly.
Keep on climbing through the clouds till you’re standing in the light of the sun, and shower peace and love and joy on everyone you see till you know that you are free
The world is flat, The country is flat The plains are flat, The world is round.
(Luke 19)
On Palm Sunday Jesus rode on a donkey
Down from the Mount of Olives Into Jerusalem
The crowd of disciples Cast palm leaves along the road
As Jesus entered the city They surrounded him singing for joy
‘Hosanna, Hosanna, the Son of David! Hosanna, Hosanna, the Son of David!
Peace in Heaven and glory in the highest!
Blessed is the one who comes in the Name of the Lord!’
The Pharisees rebuked him, saying ‘Tell your disciples to hold their tongues’
But Jesus answered them ‘If these ones were silent, The stones of the fields would cry out.’
Jesus wept. He said, ‘Oh, if only you knew The things that make for peace
But now they are hid from your eyes.’
He drove the money changers Out of the temple of God
Saying ‘This was called a house of prayer But you make it a den of thieves.’
Jesus wept. He said, ‘Oh, if only you knew the things that make for peace
But now they are hid from your eyes.’
On Palm Sunday
On Palm Sunday
Jesus Christ Liberator
Stepping out now into the fire
Stepping out into the fire
Been walking down the road
Getting hungry growing cold
The flames are burning higher
The fire out of your eyes my love Burning me where I stand
How could it be that you see what you see, The sign of a change in man?
When the spark first touches your heart The heat gets into your blood
Together we will rise above the emptiness and lies, Like you knew you should
In love we are free,
In love we are alive
Love each other, Love each other well
Love will rule the world
Jesus Christ is the liberator
Jesus Christ Liberator
Walking on the water Giving sight to the blind, set the captives free.
The green earth is on the move today
Forces of life return
Its been raining from the sky
Growing green beneath my eyes
But when will they ever learn
To ride the winds of heaven and earth, Time to show what life is worth.
Lightning hits the stone and the earth begins to groan, The storm clouds rise in the south.
People hold out their hands to say
we want peace and we want it today
now is the time with the future on the line, throw those guns away.
In love we are free,
In love we are alive
Love each other, Love each other well
Love will rule the world
Rainforest waterfall into the sea
In the coming time we will save Daintree
Rainforest waterfall into the sea
In the coming time we will learn how to be free
Smooth your brow, quench your fire
We come bearing water
Return to the old ways
Find the new ways
Mother show your baby
How to live in harmony
Return to the old ways
Find the new ways
Father teach your children
To be strong and unafraid
Rainforest waterfall, into the sea
In the coming time we will save Daintree
Rainforest waterfall, into the sea
In the coming time Aquarius will be
How could you say you’d never leave me, Why did you say you’d always love me, When you knew you barely ever loved me at all?
How could you save your kisses for me, Why did you open your arms to me, When the end was always there in your mind?
I once believed Our love was a mountain stream
Flowing strong Rising in the hills and Tumbling down to the sea
I once believed Our love was a forest green
Growing strong With roots in the earth and Branches high in the sky
Stars in the sky Shine on my solitude
Coldly they stare Mocking me and all I believed.
Together
We rode up to the top of the mountain, played with eagles, danced in the sun
We sailed down to the bottom of the ocean cut adrift on that sea of tears
You know our love will never ever die
together we can touch the sky
together we can keep our loving strong
Your beauty wakes in the early morning, golden hair in the light of the sun.
Your lips are speaking, the sun is shining, Oh how I wish we could be there again.
Your sweet love is all I ever dreamed of. I gazed into your eyes and fell in love with you.
You know our love will never ever die together we can touch the sky
together we can keep our loving strong
When I hold you I would remember the sparkle of laughter, the light in your eyes.
Now our love is crackling with wonder, lightning and thunder light up the skies.
The ocean breezes carry your laughter blowing the ashes out of the fire, the moon is rising in the rustle of evening, just to be with you is all I desire.
You know our love will never ever die together we can touch the sky
together we can keep our loving strong
Millennium
If you’re young today and old tomorrow, If you’re alive you will understand, We are young and the world is old and tomorrow we want to be around.
Living on the brink of world extinction suicidal armaments break my heart. Sitting in the bunker with the finger on the button just one wrong move could blow the world apart
World war three could happen soon unless we take a stand. Planet earth is crying out, survival of life is in our hands. When the animals start to disappear, it will come to be, the warriors of the rainbow will unite to set us free.
Change to one in the face of one thousand fears. Change to one through the sound of one thousand tears. Change to one as the signs of the times appear. Change to one for the peace of one thousand years
But you want to live fast though you know that burns you, Don’t want to care cause thats hard work. TV night time, work in day time; where to now, does it matter if you don’t know?
Or if you’re living on the edge because the centre don’t need you, Suicide what a hit, hey wow. The edge as sharp as the knife that kills, and the edge is alive, the edge is alive.
Change to one in the face of one thousand fears. Change to one through the sound of one thousand tears. Change to one as the signs of the times appear. Change to one for the peace of one thousand years
Berlin
Its a long distance from Sydney to Berlin
but you can make it, if you so desire, if its what you want.
Hallo Sydney, Hier spricht Berlin. Wie geht’s an diesem Tag?
Neunzehn hundert sechs und zwanzig, neunzehn hundert vier und achtzig.
Paris to Melbourne, Adelaide to Athens and London Town.
Bombs away when peace means war. Ignorance is strength in the brave new world. Lies are truth when slavery gets called freedom.
Head held up or head held down. Everybody living now on the ground.
Its a long way to the other side.
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