"SOMETHING OF VALUE" -Eric
I can see the Cross tonight While here below, in it's light The Dreamtime land safe, snug and is sleeping Wrapped in complacency and No discordant disturb our rest While the souls we've dispossesed are weeping
We it all by the gun and the sword By the of our race and in the name of our God as outcasts ourselves, transported, condemned None better than we the injustice of men
We it all in our hunger and need Enslaved by our and consumed by our greed And left them to beg for the at our door While we called them drunkards and wasters and They've been drowning, drowning in tears for the two hundread years
From New Jerusalem to the Dreamtime land the ships came with human cattle in chains to bind them In the grim fight just to stay Dreams must struggle to Few could see the glitt'ring prize before
We had it all in the palm of our A new hope, a new dream, a new life, a new One last chance to from the chains of the past To build something of value, build something to
This ancient land was a empty page Waiting for the great of a brand new age The future was ours to or profane A paradise lost, a gained Now tell me, is here, after two years?
So now, beneath the Southern it's time to up the cost of what gained and what we've lost forever Though much has we can't replace Those of us who this place Together now, must and face the future
So here's to us all, we're humankind who wander through life helpless and blind To our and cowardice, our humor and pain Our hundred steps forward, back again
Yes to us all, the wise and the fools The indifferent, the caring, the and the cruel As we to the beat of an uncertain drum towards what we may yet become Towards the new frontiers, of the two hundred years