Текст (слова) песни: Eric Bogle - SOMETHING OF VALUE

"SOMETHING OF VALUE"

-Eric Bogle

I can see the Southern Cross tonight

While here below, bathed in it`s light

The Dreamtime land safe, snug and tight is sleeping

Wrapped in complacency and contentedness

No discordant sounds disturb our rest

While the gentle souls we`ve dispossesed 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

Though as outcasts 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 called them drunkards and wasters and whores

They`ve been drowning, drowning in their tears

for the last two hundread years

From England`s New Jerusalem

to the Dreamtime land 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 glitt`ring 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 land was a vast empty page

Waiting for the great writers of a brand new age

The future was ours to protect or profane

A paradise lost, a paradise gained

Now tell me, is paradise here,

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, we`re frail humankind

who wander through life mostly helpless and blind

To our courage and cowardice, 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 frontiers,

of the next two hundred years

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Меню » Главная » Музыка » Правила » В избранное	Музыка RU: 0-9 А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И К Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Э Ю Я EN: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Текст (слова) песни: Eric Bogle - SOMETHING OF VALUE "SOMETHING OF VALUE" -Eric Bogle I can see the Southern Cross tonight While here below, bathed in it`s light The Dreamtime land safe, snug and tight is sleeping Wrapped in complacency and contentedness No discordant sounds disturb our rest While the gentle souls we`ve dispossesed 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 Though as outcasts 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 called them drunkards and wasters and whores They`ve been drowning, drowning in their tears for the last two hundread years From England`s New Jerusalem to the Dreamtime land 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 glitt`ring 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 land was a vast empty page Waiting for the great writers of a brand new age The future was ours to protect or profane A paradise lost, a paradise gained Now tell me, is paradise here, 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, we`re frail humankind who wander through life mostly helpless and blind To our courage and cowardice, 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 frontiers, of the next two hundred years Нравится песня? Расскажи о ней друзьям: Прямая ссылка на текст песни SOMETHING OF VALUE: http://musworld.ru/music/eng/104/1/13251.html Все тексты песен: Eric Bogle » Eric Bogle - NOW I`M EASY » Eric Bogle - THE SIGN » Eric Bogle - Leaving Nancy » Eric Bogle - He`s Nobody`s Moggy Now » Eric Bogle - AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA » Eric Bogle - WALTZING MATILDA WALTZ » Eric Bogle - No Man`s Land (Green Fields Of France) » Eric Bogle - Now I`m Easy » Eric Bogle - Little Gomez » Eric Bogle - CORNFLOWER BLUE » Eric Bogle - SOMETHING OF VALUE » Eric Bogle - Something Of Value » Eric Bogle - PLASTIC PADDY » Eric Bogle - MIRRORS » Eric Bogle - QUEENSLAND WHALERS » Eric Bogle - WELCOME HOME Рекомендуем скачать: » Застольные песни - Гляжу в поля просторные » Земфира - Скандал » Зверобой - Фонари » Зоопарк, Майк Науменко - Впеpед, Боддисатва » Заречный Гриша - Пацан » Застольные песни - Черное и белое » Злата Кудинова - Банальности » Золотое кольцо - Течет ручей » Звуки МУ, Петр Мамонов - Кактус » Золотое кольцо - Всё уже когда-то было » Зимовье Зверей - Отечество Ионы » Звездинский Михаил - Титаник » Земфира - Маечки » Звуки МУ, Петр Мамонов - Диатез » Злата Кудинова - Твоя Планета » Зоя Ященко - В лодке твоей » Земфира - Румба » Зоя Ященко - Крылья стрекоз » Звуки МУ, Петр Мамонов - Злые глаза » Золотое кольцо - Бывали дни веселые
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