Spirit Bird – Xavier Rudd

Spirit Bird

Give it time and we wonder why
(we) do what we can
laugh and we cry
and we sleep in your dust
because we’ve seen this all before.

 

Culture fades with tears and grace
leaving us stunned
hollow with shame
we have seen this all,
seen this all before

 

//: Many tribes of a modern kind,
doing brand new work,
same spirit by side,
joining hearts and hands and ancestral twine,
ancestral twine.  ://

 

//: Slowly it fades
Slowly we fade ://

 

Emana  Yo

 

//: Spirit bird she creaks and groans
she knows she has,
seen this all before she has,
seen this all before – she has ://

 

Slowly it fades. Slowly you fade …. Emana  Yo

 

Soldier on
soldier on my good country man.
Keep fighting for your culture, now
keep fighting for your land.
I know it’s been thousands of years
I feel your hurt
and I know it’s wrong
and you feel you’ve been chained
and broken and burned
and those beautiful old people
those wise old souls have been ground down for far too long by that spineless man
that greedy man
that hearless man
deceiving man
That government hand
//: taking blood and land ://
and still they can
but your dreaming
and your warrior spirit lives on
and it is so so so strong in the earth
in the trees in the rocks
in the water in your blood and
in the air we breath

 

Soldier on
soldier on my good country man,
keep fighting for your children now
keep fighting for your land

 

Slowly it fades, slowly we fade slowly you fade slowly it fades… Emana  Yo

 

Give it time and we wonder why
do what we can
laugh and we cry
and we sleep in your dust
because we’ve seen this all before.