Spirit Bird Lyrics - 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 

Slowly it fades 

Slowly we fade 

Slowly we fade 

Slowly we fade 

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 

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Slowly we fade 

Slowly it fades 

Slowly we fade 

Slowly it fades 

Slowly we fade 

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 

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Slowly we fade 

Slowly it fades 

Slowly it fades 

Slowly we fade 

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