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400 Miles From Darwin Lyrics by The Whitlams

Torch The Moon

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[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
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The Whitlams

The Whitlams

About “400 Miles From Darwin” by The Whitlams

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