"SOMETHING OF VALUE" -Eric
I can see the Cross tonight While here below, in it's light The Dreamtime safe, snug and tight is sleeping Wrapped in and contentedness No discordant sounds disturb our While the gentle we've dispossesed are weeping
We took it all by the gun and the By the right of our and in the name of our God Though as ourselves, transported, condemned None knew better than we the of men
We took it all in our hunger and Enslaved by our and consumed by our greed And left them to beg for the at our door While we called them and wasters and whores been drowning, drowning in their tears for the two hundread years
England's New Jerusalem to the Dreamtime land the ships came with human cattle in convict chains to bind In the grim fight just to alive Dreams must to survive Few could see the 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 the chains of the past To build something of value, something to last
This ancient was a vast empty page Waiting for the great of a brand new age The future was ours to or profane A paradise lost, a paradise Now me, is paradise here, two hundred years?
So now, the Southern Cross time to tally up the cost of we've gained and what we've lost forever Though much has gone we can't Those of us who love this now, must turn and face the future
So here's to us all, we're humankind who wander life mostly helpless and blind To our courage and cowardice, our and pain Our hundred steps forward, back again
Yes here's to us all, the and the fools The indifferent, the caring, the and the cruel As we march to the beat of an uncertain Stumbling towards what we may yet the brave new frontiers, of the next two hundred