400 Miles From Darwin

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We pay to shed a sombre tear 
Together in the darkness here 
One among the hundreds 
Crying for the millions 
When the houselights break the trance 
Only then unclasp our hands 
Compose ourselves and fix our hair 
"We would have all been Schindler there." 
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Drive in silence slowly home now 
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horrors more than skin and bone. 
 
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Can you see in 20 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 
 
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Watching the movie we'll ask how the people might have - 
Known, and let it happen there without a fight 
Kept driving on quietly home 
Left the Timorese alone 
400 miles from Darwin. 
 
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The 2-minute hate is now the 3-hour love 
With action left for God above 
The Germans then could turn their heads 
Now Indonesians and us, we sleep in bed 
 
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400 miles from Darwin 
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East Timor is dying. 
 
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Watching the movie we'll ask how the people might have - 
Known, and let it happen there without a fight 
Kept driving on quietly home 
Left the Timorese alone 
400 miles from Darwin. 
 
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