Solid Rock

(album: Amanda Palmer & Friends Present Forty-Five Degrees: Bushfire Charity Flash Record - 2020)

Out here nothing changes
Not in a hurry anyway
You can feel the endlessness
With the coming of the light of day
You're talking 'bout a chosen place
You wanna sell it in a marketplace
Well

You're standing on solid rock
Standing on sacred ground
Living on borrowed time
And the winds of change are blowing down the line

Right down the line

Round about the dawn of time
When the dreaming all began
A crowd of people came
Well they were looking for their promised land
We're running from the heart of darkness
Searching for the heart of light
It was their paradise

Well they were standing on solid rock
Standing on sacred ground
Living on borrowed time
And the winds of change were blowing cold that night

Well they were standing on the shore one day
Saw the white sails in the sun
Wasn't long before they felt the sting
White man, white law, white gun
Don't tell me that it's justified
Cause somewhere someone lied
Someone lied, someone lied, someone lied
Genocide

And now you're standing on solid rock
Standing on sacred ground
Living on borrowed time
And the winds of change are blowing down the line

Solid rock
Standing on sacred ground
Living on borrowed time
And the winds of change are blowing down the line

Solid rock
Standing on sacred ground
Living on borrowed time
And the winds of change are blowing down the line