Spirit Bird

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 you fade

Slowly you fade

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Spirit bird she creaks and groans

She knows she has seen this all before

She has seen this all before, she has

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 it fades

Slowly it fades

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, eh, Mana, eh, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, eh, Mana, yo, yo, yo

Soldier on, soldier on my good country men

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 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, in the air we breath

Soldier on, soldier on my good country men

Keep fighting for your children now, keep fighting for your land

Slowly it fades

Slowly it fades

Slowly it fades

Slowly it fades

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

Hey, Mana, yo, yo, yo, yo

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