I can see the Southern Cross tonight While here below, bathed in its light
The Dream Timeline, safe, snug and tight, is sleeping
Wrapped in complacency and contentedness No discarding sounds disturb our rest
While the gentle souls we've dispossessed are weeping
We took it all by the gun and the sword By the right of our race
And in the name of our God The wizard cast ourselves, transported, condemned
None knew better than we the injustice of men
We took it all in our hunger and need Enslaved by our past and consumed by our greed
And left them to beg for the scraps at our door
While we call them drunkards and wasters and whores
They've been drowning, drowning in their tears
For the last two hundred years
From Athens, New Jerusalem, to the Dream Timeline
The tall ships came with human cattle In convict chains to bind them
In the grim fight just to stay alive Dreams must struggle to survive
Few could see the glittering prize before them
We had it all in the palm of our hand A new hope, a new dream, a new life, a new land
One last chance to break from the chains of the past
To build something of value, build something to last
This ancient plan was a vast empty page Waiting for the rewriters of a brand new age
The future was ours to protect or profane Paradise lost, a paradise gained
And tell me, is paradise here?
After two hundred years
After two hundred years
So now, beneath the southern cross It's time to tally up the cost
Of what we've gained and what we've lost forever
Though much has gone we can't replace Those of us who love this place
Together now must turn and face the future
So here's to us all, for frail humankind Who've wandered through life, mostly helpless and blind
To our courage and callous, our humor and pain Our hundred steps forward, ninety-nine back again
Yes, here's to us all, the wise and the fools The indifferent, the caring, the kind and the cruel
As we march to the beat of an uncertain drum Stumbling towards what we may yet become
Towards the brave new frontier Of the next two hundred years
Of the next two hundred years
Of the next two hundred years
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