Kosciusko (song)

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Name Kosciusko
Album/single The Power And The Passion - Track 2 (Non-Shihad Release)
Length 4.36
Alternative titles
First live performance
Recorded Sing Sing Studios
Writer/composer Midnight Oil
Producer Steve Jones

Additional Information

This is a cover of Midnight Oil's song.

This song appeared on a Midnight Oil tribute CD called 'The Power And The Passion.'

Lyrics

Older than Kosciusko
Darwin down to Alice Springs
Dealers in the clearinghouse
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 storms and struggle
Now the fires begin to rage

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

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