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

Old than Kosciusko

Dry white seasons years ago

Darkness over Charleville

The fires begin to glow

No end to the hostility

Now they wanna be somehwere 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 figes 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