Skyclad - Trance Dance (A Dreamtime Walkabout) lyrics

Where past meets the present we walk hand in hand

Barefoot and naked but the kings of our land

The souls of my forefathers they course through my veins

As I watch the sun sink 'neath these ancestral plains

Outcast in the outback, forgotten by time

Lie the fragile remains of a world that was mine

What money could not buy the strong chose to steal

To them power and riches were all that was real

Then sold into slavery, iron-ore digger

I am your abbo, your lackey, your nigga

Awaken the neo-neanderthal man that sleeps within all of us touched by his hand

He's the last grain of hope left unspoilt by our games

So tread soft in his footsteps and whisper his name

A dreamtime walkabout is all that remains of the past

A dreamtime walkabout, the 'missing link' holds the chain fast

Watch us skip the dark fantastic, silhouettes against the sky

Bodies bathed in starlit twilight, high above our spirits fly

Every picture tells a tale of hidden wisdom they have found

Man is just a part of nature, not the other way around

This 'savage' nobility they rule without thrones

And by birthright inherit things that we'll never own

Though progress encroaches, the last of their kind

Still reach from their bodies with prehensile minds

We sons of the wilderness, unchained and free

Cast our spirits to fly with the birds through the trees

See a bloodline that extends from Genesis to fiery end

Over bushland and billabong astral forms soar

'til the therms of our passion can bear us no more

Its shadow cast upon the land still undefiled by human hand

Unaware what you search for is already mine

Awaken the neo-neanderthal man that sleeps within all of us touched by his hand

He's the last grain of hope left unspoilt by our games

So tread soft in his footsteps and whisper his name

A dreamtime walkabout is all that remains of the past

A dreamtime walkabout, the 'missing link' holds the chain fast

As you cower in concrete boxes sheltered from the light of day

Pause a moment, stop and wonder, who's most savage; you or they?

Every picture tells a tale of hidden wisdom they have found

Man is just a part of nature, not the other way around