Older than Kosciusko   Darwin down to Alice Springs   Dealers in the clearing house   The settlements explode      High up in the homelands   Miners drive across the land   Encounter no resistance   When the people block the road      Older than Kosciusko   Dry white seasons years ago   Darkness over Charleville   The fires begin to grow      No end to the hostility   Now they wanna be somewhere else   No stranger to brutality   Now they'd like to be someone else      Older than Kosciusko   Driven back to Alice Springs   Endless storm and struggle   Marks the spirit of the age      High up in the homelands   Celebration 'cross the land   Builds up like a cyclone   Now the fires begin to rage      No end to the hostility   Now they wanna be somewhere else   No stranger to brutality   Now they'd like to be someone else      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      No end to the hostility   Now they wanna be somewhere else   No stranger to brutality   Now they'd like to be someone else      No end to the hostility   Now they wanna be somewhere