On a highway bound for nowhere  Past the burtn out dams and the river beds  The bull ants march  As the sun bleached bones get whiter  He can see the grass through the railroad tracks  Well that train went to city  And it ain't coming back  He spits from the window, it steams as it hits  the ground  Over sunburnt plains and lime stone ranges  One man calls to the sun  Hearts on the run  With burnt skin, green shirt, grey hands,  Red dirt, blue eyes pierce through the haze  "Black snake" road leads the way  Over my land  A black man bites back on a golden dawn  Across red earth  Where a white brother bastard waiting  Looking for rain  Where one man stands with a gun  In his hands  And beside him is his wife  The sifting soil their life is just  blown away  Where dreaming starts from birth  From the waves of war on the shore  Into the inside heart of blood red earth  Where people live to laugh, to cry  And their dreams are shared  under southern starlight  Where love  Is just, hlólding that woman in your arms  In the land of the sun  The "mining man" drowned in a  boom toen grave  And a small town kneels just praying to be saved  The city folk say it's tight  But somewhere someone died  And you tell me you don't care  And you tell me that it ain't your worry  And you tell me that life goes on  You tell me  You tell me  Repeat chorus