I can see the Southern Cross tonight While here below, bathed in its lightThe Dream Timeline, safe, snug and tight, is sleepingWrapped in complacency and contentedness No discarding sounds disturb our restWhile the gentle souls we've dispossessed are weepingWe took it all by the gun and the sword By the right of our raceAnd in the name of our God The wizard cast ourselves, transported, condemnedNone knew better than we the injustice of menWe took it all in our hunger and need Enslaved by our past and consumed by our greedAnd left them to beg for the scraps at our doorWhile we call them drunkards and wasters and whoresThey've been drowning, drowning in their tearsFor the last two hundred yearsFrom Athens, New Jerusalem, to the Dream TimelineThe tall ships came with human cattle In convict chains to bind themIn the grim fight just to stay alive Dreams must struggle to surviveFew could see the glittering prize before themWe had it all in the palm of our hand A new hope, a new dream, a new life, a new landOne last chance to break from the chains of the pastTo build something of value, build something to lastThis ancient plan was a vast empty page Waiting for the rewriters of a brand new ageThe future was ours to protect or profane Paradise lost, a paradise gainedAnd tell me, is paradise here?After two hundred yearsAfter two hundred yearsSo now, beneath the southern cross It's time to tally up the costOf what we've gained and what we've lost foreverThough much has gone we can't replace Those of us who love this placeTogether now must turn and face the futureSo here's to us all, for frail humankind Who've wandered through life, mostly helpless and blindTo our courage and callous, our humor and pain Our hundred steps forward, ninety-nine back againYes, here's to us all, the wise and the fools The indifferent, the caring, the kind and the cruelAs we march to the beat of an uncertain drum Stumbling towards what we may yet becomeTowards the brave new frontier Of the next two hundred yearsOf the next two hundred yearsOf the next two hundred yearsThank you for watching!