Give it time and wonder why
Do what we can laugh an 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 you fades
Slowly you fade

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

Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has,
Seen this all before she has, seen this all before she has
Slowly you fade
Slowly it fades
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 its been thousands of years
And I feel your hurt and I know its 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 that greedy man that hearless 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 breath

Soldier on soldier on my good country man,
Keep fighting for your children now keep fighting for your land
Slowly it fades
Slowly you fade
Slowly it fades
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


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    I know the song is a little about politics and so on. But for myself this song takes on a whole new meaning! I see the the spirit bird as my ex. When we broke up she has seen this all before. In previous relationships. It was probably history repeating itself so each time I wamted to talk to her again she would ignore me because she knows how the story goes “she has seen this all before. And where he says “soldier on” is where I let go and say okay you can go. Where Cavier Rudd says about how ypu should fight on is for the guy to fight in order to get his ego back! “Slowly you fade” means For me that my ex is slowly fading away and one day she will be nothing but a vauge memory. Sad.. This comment is based on my personal experience. Thanks for reading ;) listen to the song again and imagine this. It really regnates

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