We don't serve your country
Don't serve your king
Know your custom, don't speak your tongue
White man came, took everyone

We don't serve your country
Don't serve your king
White man listen to the songs we sing
White man came, took everything

We carry in our hearts the true country
And that cannot be stolen
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
And that cannot be broken

We don't serve your country
Don't serve your king
Know your custom, don't speak your tongue
White man came, took everyone

We don't need protection
Don't need your hand
Keep your promise on where we stand
We will listen we'll understand
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

We carry in our hearts the true country
And that cannot be stolen
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
And that cannot be broken

We carry in our hearts the true country
And that cannot be stolen
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
And that cannot be broken

Broken

Mining companies, pastoral companies
Uranium companies of, companies of
Collected companies
Got more right than people, yeah
Got more say than people, yeah
More say than the people, oh yeah
More say than people, yeah
More say than people, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Forty thousand years that makes a difference to the state of things

The dead heart
The dead heart
The dead heart, oh, lives here
The dead heart
The dead heart, I said
The dead heart lives
It lives here


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The Dead Heart Lyrics as written by Martin Rotsey James Moginie

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    Forty thousand years ago was about when anthropologists believe humanity developed the concept of language and, with it, symbolic thought.

    What the band is trying to say, I believe, is that Western society, somehow, has fallen off the track, that we no longer live the way nature/God/whatever meant us to live. To some degree, he's right.

    The question is, is that entirely a bad thing? Sure, corporations have far too much power and influence over our daily lives.

    While we don't live simple hunter/gatherer lifestyles, humanity's legacy is technological advance. Without these advances, which are the legacy of language and symbolic thought, our fate will be no different than any other species on this planet - we'll spend our time here, then disappear.

    Personally, I'm not too fond of that idea.

    SirThorethon June 05, 2003   Link

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