Warakurna - Midnight Oil

There is enough for everyone

In Redfern as there is in Alice

This is not the Buckingham Palace

This is the crown land

This is the brown land

This is not our land

Some folks live in water tanks

Some folks live in red brick flats

There is enough, the law is carved in granite

It’s been shaped by wind and rain

White law could be wrong

Black law must be strong

Warakurna, cars will roll

Don’t drink by the water hole

Court fines on the shopfront wall

Beat the grog and save you soul

Some people laugh, some never learn

This land must change or land must burn

Some people sleep, some people yearn

This land must change or land must burn

Diesel and dust is what we breathe

This land don’t change and we don’t leave

Some people live, some never die

This land don’t change this land must lie

Some people leave, always return

This land must change or land must burn

Warakurna, camels roam

Fires are warm and dogs are cold

Not since Lassiter was here

Black man’s got a lot to fear

Some people laugh some never learn

This land must change or land must burn

Some people sleep, some people yearn

This land must change or land must burn