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"SOMETHING OF VALUE"
-Eric

I can see the Southern tonight
While below, bathed in it's light
The Dreamtime safe, snug and tight is sleeping
Wrapped in complacency and
No sounds disturb our rest
While the gentle souls we've dispossesed are

We took it all by the gun and the
By the of our race and in the name of our God
as outcasts ourselves, transported, condemned
None knew better we the injustice of men

We it all in our hunger and need
Enslaved by our past and consumed by our
And left them to beg for the scraps at our
While we called them and wasters and whores
They've been drowning, in their tears
for the last two hundread

From England's New
to the Dreamtime land the tall ships
human cattle in convict chains to bind them
In the grim fight just to alive
Dreams struggle to survive
Few see the glitt'ring prize before them

We had it all in the palm of our
A new hope, a new dream, a new life, a new
One last chance to break from the chains of the
To something of value, build something to last

This ancient land was a vast empty
Waiting for the great writers of a new age
The future was ours to or profane
A lost, a paradise gained
Now tell me, is here,
after two years?

So now, beneath the Cross
it's time to tally up the
of what we've gained and what we've lost
Though much has we can't replace
Those of us who love place
now, must turn and face the future

So here's to us all, frail humankind
who wander through life mostly and blind
To our courage and cowardice, our humor and
Our hundred forward, ninety-nine back again

Yes here's to us all, the wise and the
The indifferent, the caring, the kind and the
As we march to the beat of an uncertain
Stumbling towards what we may yet
Towards the new frontiers,
of the next two hundred