Phoenix

In the doorway of your home among the gum trees you stand there, Still Upon the door frame cut from the pine trees rests your hand, there, still To steady your bones, while you watch your children pack their clothes and all the rest To steady your shaking hands, to slow your racing heart, about to beat right out your chest Rise from the ashes like a Phoenix in all those fairytales they tell Rise from the ashes after all, God knows, we've been put through hell Stand like the soldiers who we tribute, every year April 25 Today we are the fallen, tomorrow we will soar The next day or the next one, we will fly The deepest shade of Amber swallows you whole, but you stand there, still How to fight the cruelest monster, the one worst of them all, don't know how but will Flames consume our army, it ravages our country, tearing through house and home Stealing our lives and lands, taking all it can, and now you've no more place to call your own Rise from the ashes like a Phoenix in all those fairytales they tell Rise from the ashes after all, God knows, we've been put through hell Stand like the soldiers who we tribute, every year April 25 Today we are the fallen, tomorrow we will soar, the next day or the next one, we will fly You love a sunburnt country A land of sweeping plains Of sapphire misted mountains Where it never seems to rain Now we're just the burnt country A land of blackened plains Torn apart by fire Praying for the rain We will burn We will perish We will lose all control But we will rise Become the Phoenix From the embers that buried our souls Rise from the ashes like a Phoenix in all those fairytales they tell Rise from the ashes after all, God knows, we've survived hell