Spirit Bird

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Give it time and wonder why do what we can laugh and we cry
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and we sleep in your dust because we've seen this all before.

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Culture fades with tears and grace leaving us stunned hollow with shame we
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have seen this all, seen this all before.

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Many tribes of a modern kind, doing brand new work, same spirit by side,
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joining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine.

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Many tribes of a modern kind, doing brand new work, same spirit by side,
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joining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine.

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Slowly it fades…….. Slowly we fade
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Slowly it faaaaades…….. Slowly we fade
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Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
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Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo
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Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
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Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo

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Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has, seen this all before she
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has, seen this all before she has
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Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has, seen this all before she
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has, seen this all before she has

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Slowly it fades…….. Slowly it fades
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Slowly we faaaaade…….. Slowly we faaaaaaaaaaaaaade
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Slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaaaades
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Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
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Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo
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Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
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Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo

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Soldier on soldier on my good country man. Keep fighting for your culture now,
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keep fighting for your laaaaand.
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I know it’s been thousands of years and I feel your hurt and I know it’s wrong
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and you feel youve been chained and broken and burned and those beautiful old
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people those wise old souls have been ground down for far too long by that
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spineless man that greedy man that heartless man deceiving man government hand
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taking blood and land taking blood and land and still they can but your
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dreaming and your warrior spirit lives on and it is so so so strong in the
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earth in the trees in the rocks in the water in your blood and in the air we

breath

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Soldier on soldier on my good country man, keep fighting for your children
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now keep fighting for your laaaaaaaaaaand
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Slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaaades slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaades slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaades
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slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaaades

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Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
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Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo

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Give it time and we wonder why do what we can laugh and we cry and we sleep
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in your dust because weve seen it all before