Over there across the river
Coming in over the sea
Flying in the sun sky
Washed up on the beach
Over across in the sand dunes
Up among the broken reeds
Up there past the rushes
And among the marshy weeds
Way up in the branches
Higher up than the trees
If you listen hard you can hear them sound
Blowing in on the breeze
Saying come back
Baby come back
Come back
Baby come back
There's a place you can go when you're empty
The older you are and you get
If you concentrate you'll catch it
But sometimes you have to forget
And as the years make the hearing harder
There's a secret place that I know
Take my hand cross this blasted land
We can listen to them sighing more
Whisper come back
Baby come back
Come back
Baby come back
Where is your culture? It's been stolen
Where are your ideals? They've been stolen
Where is your nation? It's been stolen
Where is your language? Gone
Where are your traditions? Wrong
Where is your future? It's been stolen
Who are you now? We don't know
We are nothing now we are gone
But whispered secret voices
Where we have only withdrawn
We are the shadows of what we were
We're a long long shadow
And in that shadow's a shape
And in that shape is our name
Where we hide it is dark but in the dark it is warm
We are born in this dark and we're safe
When it's time we'll come again
When it's time we'll come again
Come back
Come back
Gone gone gone
Gone gone gone
Gone gone gone
Gone gone gone
Gone gone gone
Gone gone gone
Gone gone gone
Gone gone gone
Gone gone gone