slow down (lyrics)
from the meantime to the dreamtime

All eyes on Australia
Behind closed doors
They slice and dice and that ain't right
They want to take the cake from our ground

Dig it up, ship it out, everywhere
Make some good money for the next few years
Mess it up, turn it round, bring it back here
Where it's gonna glow for a thousand years

All eyes on Australia
Behind closed doors
They fight and bite and that's not right
There's too much messin' round with our shores

Farm land, bush land, all the same
Dig it up for a short term gain
You give me reason say I don't understand
But isn't it treason to sell out this land

Come on now see (what you wanna be)
Come on now say (what do we really want)
Come on now be
Those men they don't represent me
They got too much love for power and the GDP
But they're only people just like me
And you
Now it's up to us, what we gonna do?

Slow down
Slow down
Give it up for the white and the brown
Slow down
Slow down
We can never go back but we can turn this around
Slow down

((?), the spirit world, ancestral beings, they gave us the law of the land
from the dreamtime, to the meantime, you see many things come and go
The droughts and the floods and the soft solemn ball of snow
You watched the clever man making his magic,
and the song man singing his songs,
?? as she runs, kicking up puffs of red ?? dust,
from the woods to the spears, from the rocks to the (?)
now men with machines tearing up the ground)

Slow down
Slow down
Give it up for the white and the brown
Slow down
Slow down
We can never go back but we can turn this around
Slow down
Slow down
We don't want to be a big whole in the ground
Slow down

(Let's turn this around)

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