"SOMETHING OF VALUE" -Eric
I can see the Southern tonight While here below, bathed in it's The Dreamtime land safe, and tight is sleeping in complacency and contentedness No discordant sounds disturb our While the gentle souls we've are weeping
We took it all by the gun and the By the right of our race and in the of our God Though as outcasts ourselves, transported, None better than we the injustice of men
We it all in our hunger and need Enslaved by our past and by our greed And left to beg for the scraps at our door we called them drunkards and wasters and whores They've been drowning, in their tears for the last two hundread
From England's New to the land the tall ships came with human in convict chains to bind them In the grim fight just to alive Dreams must to survive Few could see the prize before them
We had it all in the of our hand A new hope, a new dream, a new life, a new One last chance to break from the chains of the To build something of value, build something to
This ancient was a vast empty page Waiting for the great writers of a new age The future was to protect or profane A paradise lost, a gained Now me, is paradise here, two hundred years?
So now, beneath the Cross it's time to up the cost of what we've and what we've lost forever Though much has gone we can't Those of us who love place now, must turn and face the future
So to us all, we're frail humankind who through life mostly helpless and blind To our courage and cowardice, our and pain Our hundred forward, ninety-nine back again
Yes here's to us all, the and the fools The indifferent, the caring, the kind and the As we to the beat of an uncertain drum towards what we may yet become Towards the new frontiers, of the next two years