Reconciliation

I want you to imagine that you're a child again, small and black

Frightened, bewildered and alone

Because yesterday an alien race

Came to your childhood dreamtime place

Took you from the only life you've ever known

And your ears still ring to the sound of your mother's cries

As they tore you from her helpless arms

And your scared and angry father shouting "why, why, why?"

Imagine that if you can

It's the shame of a nation

And it's time for reconciliation

I want you to imagine this

The mission school where the alien fist

Is clothed by the Christian's velvet glove

Where they preach about sin and teach you shame

Steal your past, change your name

And all they claim in the name of their God's love

So when they tell you you're an orphan

You believe it to be true

For they're the ones with the Bibles in their hands

And the last small hope dies deep inside of you

Imagine that if you can

It's the shame of a nation

And it's time for reconciliation

Imagine a people so advanced

In their pride and arrogance

No culture has value but their own

That only they, the just and strong

Can judge what's right and right what's wrong

For the truth shines on them and them alone

So when the light of their truth

Falls on you one day

And all that you are is judged and damned

When for their own good

They take your children away

Imagine that if you can

It's the shame of a nation

And it's time for reconciliation