400 Miles From Darwin Sözleri

We pay to shed a sombre tear in the darkness together here

One among the hundreds, crying for the millions

And when the house lights break the trance

Only then unclasp our hands

Compose ourselves and fix our hair

"We would have all been Schindler there"

Drive in silence slowly home

Now horror's more than skin and bone

And can you see in twenty years,

We'll pay to shed the same cheap tears.

In a film about an island, watch our hero take a stand.

Pay our money gladly to wash our hands.

Watching the movie we'll ask how the people might have known.

Let it happen there without a fight.

Kept driving on quietly home,

Left the Timorese alone - 400 miles from Darwin.

The two-minute hate is now the three-hour love,

With any action from up above.

Those people then could turn their heads,

Now all the same we sleep instead.

While 400 miles from Darwin,

East Timor is dying.

Watching the movie we'll ask how the people might have known

Let it happen there without a fight

Kept driving on quietly home

Left the Timorese alone - 400 miles from Darwin

Words and music by Tim Freedman

Produced and engineered by Daniel Denholm

Mixed by Rob Taylor

Vocal, backing vocals, piano - Tim Freedman

Kacapi zither, saron, rebana - Margaret Bradley

Bass - Jackie Orszaczky

Drums - Terepai Richmond

Gretsch guitar, strings arranged and conducted by Daniel Denholm