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