Spirit Bird - Xavier Rudd

作词：Xavier Rudd

作曲：Xavier Rudd

Give it time and wonder why

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 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 it fade

Slowly we fade

Spirit bird she creaks and groans

She knows she has

Seen this all before she has

Seen this all before she has

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

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 it's been thousands of years and

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 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 we fade slowly

You fade 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