Lyrics Kosciusko - Remastered Version - Midnight Oil

Older than Kosciusko
Darwin down to Alice Springs
Dealers in the clearing house, the settlements explode

High up in the homelands
Miners drive across the land
Encounter no resistance when the people block the road

Older than Kosciusko
Dry white seasons, years ago
Darkness over Charleville, the fires begin to glow

No end to the hostility
Now they wanna be somewhere else
No stranger to brutality
Now they'd like to be someone else

Older than Kosciusko
Driven back to Alice Springs
Endless storm and struggle marks the spirit of the age

High up in the homelands
Celebration 'cross the land
Builds up like a cyclone, now the fires begin to rage

No end to the hostility
Now they wanna be somewhere else
No stranger to brutality
Now they'd like to be someone else

Call off the ultimatum, no, don't turn away
Call off the ultimatum until yesterday
Call off the ultimatum, no, don't turn away

Bind up the brokenhearted, no, don't turn away

Call off the ultimatum until yesterday

No end to the hostility
Now they wanna be somewhere else
No stranger to brutality
Now they'd like to be someone else

No end to the hostility
Now they wanna be somewhere