Spirit Bird - Xavier Rudd

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

Spirit bird he creaks and groans, she knows she has seen this all before
 She has seen this all before, she has
 Spirit bird he creaks and groans, she knows she has seen this all before
 She has seen this all before, she has

Soldier on, soldier on my good countrymen
 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
 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 heartless 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 breathe
 Soldier on, soldier on my good countrymen
 Keep fighting for your children now, keep fighting for your land

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