Reconciliation

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I want you to imagine that you’re a child again, small and black
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Frightened, bewildered and alone
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Because yesterday an alien race to your childhood dreamtime place
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Took you from the only life you’ve ever known


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And your ears still ring to the sound of your mother’s cries
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As they tore you from her helpless arms
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And your scared and angry father shouting "why, why, why?"
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Imagine that – if you can


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It’s the shame – shame – of a nation
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And it’s time – time – for reconciliation


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[Verse II]
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I want you to imagine this – the mission’s school with alien fists
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Is clothed by the Christian’s velvet glove
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Where they preach about sin and teach you shame, steal your past and change your name
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And all they claim in the name of their God’s love


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So, when they tell you you’re an orphan you believe it to be true
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For they’re the ones with the bibles in their hands
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And the last small hope dies deep inside of you
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Imagine that – if you can


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It’s the shame – shame – of a nation
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And it’s time – time – for reconciliation


[Verse III]
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Imagine people so advanced in their pride and arrogance
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No culture has value but their own
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And only they, the just and strong, can judge what’s right and right what’s wrong
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What truth shines on them and them alone


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So, when the light of their truth falls on you one day
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And all that you are is judged and damned
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When for their own good they take your children away
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Imagine that – if you can


[Chorus]
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It’s the shame – shame – of a nation
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And it’s time – time – for reconciliation