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There is No Ship

Written by Rose Betts

LYRICS

CHORUS

There is no ship
That can bear me hence
I'm bound to these shores
I'll be bound 'till the end
For my tears fill the rain
And my blood fills the dark
Oh and there is no ship
That can carry my heart


VERSE 1

I'm built out of dew drops
And bramble and briar
I sing with the blackbird
And dance with the fire
My hands hold the secret
The acorn can't tell
My body the hillside
That echoes the bell, and


CHORUS


VERSE 2

This land is my bloodline
My breakfast my bed
I've slept in her arms
While she breathed on my head
She's caught in my voice
And she colours my view
She gave me the road
Then she gave me to you, and


CHORUS x 2

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We acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation, upon whose lands we gather and sing.
We acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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