We pay to shed a sombre tear in the darkness together here   One among the hundreds, crying for the millions   And when the house lights break the trance   Only then unclasp our hands   Compose ourselves and fix our hair   "We would have all been Schindler there"   Drive in silence slowly home   Now horror's more than skin and bone       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       Watching the movie we'll ask how the people might have known   Let it happen there without a fight   Kept driving on quietly home   Left the Timorese alone - 400 miles from Darwin       The two-minute hate is now the three-hour love   With any action left to up above   Those people then could turn their heads   Now all the same we sleep instead   While 400 miles from Darwin   East Timor is dying       Watching the movie we'll ask how the people might have known   Let it happen there without a fight   Kept driving on quietly home   Left the Timorese alone - 400 miles from Darwin    Words and music by Tim Freedman   Produced and engineered by Daniel Denholm   Mixed by Rob Taylor   Vocal, backing vocals, piano - Tim Freedman   Kacapi zither, saron, rebana - Margaret Bradley   Bass - Jackie Orszaczky   Drums - Terepai Richmond   Gretsch guitar, strings arranged and conducted by Daniel Denholm