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