Stranded at the limit of an endless ocean.
Stranded like a runaway lost at sea.
Sitting on a rainy day down in the harbour,

watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay.
Looking everywhere 'cause I had to find you!
This is not the way that I remember it here!

Anyone will tell you it's a prisoner island,
hidden in the summer for a million years.


Great Southern Land.
Burned you black.


So you look into the land; it will tell you a story.
A story 'bout a journey ended long ago.
Listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains!

Maybe you can hear them talking like I do.
They gonna betray you, they gonna forget you,
or you gonna let them take you over the way!


Great Southern Land.
Great Southern Land.

You walk alone!
Like a primitive man.
And they make it work.

With sticks and bones.
See their hungry eyes,
it's a hungry home.


I hear the sound of the stranger's voices.
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes.

Great Southern Land.
Great Southern Land.
They burned you black.

Black against the ground.




Stranded at the limit of an endless ocean.
Stranded like a runaway lost at sea.

Sitting on a rainy day down in the harbour,
watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay.
Looking everywhere. I had to find you!

This is not the way that I remember it here!
Anyone will tell you it's a prisoner island,
hidden in the summer for a million years.

Great Southern Land.
In the sleeping sun.
You walk alone!

With the ghost of time.
And they burned you black.
Black against the ground.

And they make it work.
With rocks and sand.


I hear the sound of the stranger's voices.
I see their hungry eyes, their hungry eyes.
Great Southern Land.

Great Southern Land.
You walk alone!
Like a primitive man.

You walk alone!
With the ghost of time.
And they burned you black!

Yeah, they burned you black!
Great Southern Land.
Great Southern Land.

Great Southern Land.