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
     C
 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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Gm  Bb  Dm  C
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

F    Gm   Bb    C
400 miles from Darwin
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East Timor is dying.

F           Gm          Bb      
Watching the movie we'll ask how
     C
 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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