We Could Be Gone - Jimmy Barnes

You and me are from different tribes

Never learned to talk so we learned to fight

Communication like water spilled

What we can’t take in, was lost or killed

We learned to live where we bore each child

Every step we took lost another mile

Came the day we were face to face

Didn’t understand so our instincts raced

If we don’t get together at all we lose it

Get to the table and talk, we’ll choose it

Forget what’s been said before confusing

Out of the heart of it all our future’s born

If we don’t look inside our souls, we could be gone

Forty thousand years underneath your belt

Now you have to pray where the white man knelt

You’ve been ridiculed because of what you felt

Tried to crucify you, but you fought like hell

The dreams that lead your every move

Full of stories you could never prove

If god is part of the written word

There are stories that your god ain’t heard

If we don’t get together at all we lose it

Get to the table and talk, we’ll choose it