400 Miles From Darwin

Lyrics

[Verse 1] We pay to shed a sombre tear In the darkness together here One among the hundreds Crying for the millions [Verse 2] And when the house lights break the trance Only then unclasp our hands Compose ourselves, fix our hair We would have all been Schindler there [Refrain] Drive in silence slowly home now Horror's more than skin and bone [Verse 3] And can you see in twenty 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 [Chorus] Watching the movie, we'll ask how the people might have known Let it happen there without a fight Kept driving quietly home Left the Timorese alone Four hundred miles from Darwin [Verse 4] The two-minute hate is now the three-hour love And any actions from up above Those people then, they could turn their heads now All the same, we sleep instead [Refrain] While four hundred miles from Darwin East Timor is dying [Chorus] Watching the movie, we'll ask how the people might have known Let it happen there without a fight Kept driving quietly home Left the Timorese alone Four hundred miles from Darwin