Colony's Doom - country version

Country version of my song 'Colony's Doom'
**[Verse 1]**
You built your fences where the river bends,
Flagpoles where the songlines end.
Concrete cracks over sacred ground,
But the earth remembers what you’ve found:
This land’s not yours to claim, to own—
The Dreaming breathes where your walls are thrown.
**[Chorus]**
Your colony is doomed, your empire’s a lie,
The land’s old bones will rise, touch the sky.
We’ve walked these paths since the stars were young,
Your fences fall, your flags come undone.
Your colony is doomed—you can’t outlast the song.
**[Verse 2]**
You mine the earth, you drain the springs,
But the water knows whose blood it brings.
You plant your laws where our laws stood,
But the law of the land is written in blood:
Not in ink, not in courts, not in chains—
In the roots that hold, in the rain that reigns.
**[Chorus]**
Your colony is doomed, your empire’s a lie,
The land’s old bones will rise, touch the sky.
We’ve walked these paths since the stars were young,
Your fences fall, your flags come undone.
Your colony is doomed—you can’t outlast the song.
**[Bridge]**
The Rainbow Serpent stirs in the dust,
She’s coiled where your machines rust.
The ancestors hum in the wind’s low cry,
*“You built on sand—now watch it die.”*
The children laugh where your streets once ran,
They’re learning the names of the land again.
**[Verse 3]**
You thought time was yours to command,
But the Dreaming’s older than your plans.
Your clocks tick loud, but the seasons don’t bend—
The river still flows where your roads end.
Your colony’s a shadow, a ghost in the light,
We’re the dawn that outlasts the night.
**[Chorus]**
Your colony is doomed, your empire’s a lie,
The land’s old bones will rise, touch the sky.
We’ve walked these paths since the stars were young,
Your fences fall, your flags come undone.
Your colony is doomed—you can’t outlast the song.
**[Outro]**
country is not yours to claim*,
We’re the fire that outlasts the flame.
Your colony’s a breath, a blink flash,
We’re the earth that remains.
Your colony is doomed.