The First Man Lyrics - Singles - Cormorant

Dream into being. 

Ancestors eternal, 

two giants fraternal, 

wielding stone knives. 

Upon shapeless bodies, 

the All-Fathers follies, 

they carve human lives. 

Sun Mother! 

Wake unborn seeds 

to grow, 

snakes to bleed 

mighty rivers 

that quiver and 

flow. 

The light on the oils, 

a spectrum of coils: 

Rainbow Serpent. 

The storm clouds empowered, 

crying orphans devoured, 

drowned in its current. 

Eaglehawk, 

your children slain 

by Crow, 

split your pain! 

Through the brush you stalk, 

draped in quills of flame. 

Raven dyed in smoke, 

entombed birds reborn, 

locked in everlasting strife. 

Mourn the songs 

of times past. 

Prisons 

engorged with 

risen 

savages, 

the first 

to forge myths. 

Still, thirst 

ravages 

all. 

Proud First People 

beneath the steeple 

of a white god. 

Whole tribes accused, 

children abused. 

No spared rod. 

Terra 

nullius, 

bearer 

of disease. 

Slowly 

breath in this 

lowly 

gasoline 

death. 

Culture broken, 

half-castes stolen, 

a mothers shout. 

The flaying of skin, 

eugenic sin, 

black bred out. 

A swallowing torrent 

once swept the abhorrent 

beneath the foam. 

May spirits of rain 

rise up once again, to 

shape the land we roam. 

Uluru, 

battle of snakes, 

the earth 

roused awake 

to tremble anew, 

a howling mountainous birth. 

Demons spawned of mud 

sculpt generations in their blood.