Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Australia, artist - Laura Jean. Date of issue: 02.09.2011
Song language: English
Australia |
| Trapped by tides |
| Led by liars |
| Specks of light |
| clinging to telephone wires |
| Surrounded by desert pyres |
| about as foreign to me as my distant sires |
| Europe and the Americans |
| send their artists down here to vent |
| I’m afraid to sing in my own accent |
| culture cringing like an adolescent |
| Here upon this artless wedge |
| We struggle not to fall off the edge of the world |
| Caroline Springs |
| and she floods the fields |
| Cities bitch |
| high up on four wheels |
| I know they just want what’s best for their families |
| but I want to live in a community |
| where there’s no need to pray that it’s them and not me |
| and I’m allowed to be what I’m meant to be |
| Here upon this artifice |
| the Australian Dream falls off the edge of the world |
| The oldest people |
| the oldest wisdom |
| beyond the grasp of an infant kingdom |
| We come from people who risked it all |
| We come from people that broke the law |
| Now I need a stamped piece of paper to take a piss |
| like we’re still a gaol for the English |
| Two centuries on an ancient land |
| pretending that we understand the world |