xavier rudd
spirit bird
Give it time and wonder why  Do what we can laugh an 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 hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine  Many tribes of a modern kind,  Doing brand new work, same spirit by side,  Joining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine  Slowly it fades Slowly we fade Slowly you fades Slowly you fade  Spirit bird she creaks and groans  She knows she has, seen this all before she has, seen this all before  Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has,  Seen this all before she has, seen this all before she has Slowly you fade Slowly it fades Slowly you fade Slowly you fade Slowly you fade  Soldier on soldier on my good country man Keep fighting for your culture,  Now keep fighting for your land  I know its been thousands of years And I feel your hurt and I know its 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 that greedy man that hearless man deceiving man  That government hand taking blood and land 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 you fade Slowly it fades Slowly it fades 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 it all before