On a highway bound for nowhere Past the burtn out dams and the river beds The bull ants march As the sun bleached bones get whiter He can see the grass through the railroad tracks Well that train went to city And it ain't coming back He spits from the window, it steams as it hits the ground Over sunburnt plains and lime stone ranges One man calls to the sun Hearts on the run With burnt skin, green shirt, grey hands, Red dirt, blue eyes pierce through the haze "Black snake" road leads the way Over my land A black man bites back on a golden dawn Across red earth Where a white brother bastard waiting Looking for rain Where one man stands with a gun In his hands And beside him is his wife The sifting soil their life is just blown away Where dreaming starts from birth From the waves of war on the shore Into the inside heart of blood red earth Where people live to laugh, to cry And their dreams are shared under southern starlight Where love Is just, hl?ng that woman in your arms In the land of the sun The "mining man" drowned in a boom toen grave And a small town kneels just praying to be saved The city folk say it's tight But somewhere someone died And you tell me you don't care And you tell me that it ain't your worry And you tell me that life goes on You tell me You tell me Repeat chorus