It Belongs to Us - Dougie MacLean

It stands within a time of dreams

Engraven stone on which it seems

Ten thousand naked hands have drawn an endless line

Where man and earth were more than one

With fire water moon and sun

We touch it and we’re centred in this place and time

They try and tear it all away

But turning heads don’t hear what heavy hearts must say

It belongs to us, it belongs to us

It’s our sacred rock you hold

And it’s our destiny that you have thrown away

It’s our sacred rock you hold

These canyons where our ancients sleep

They rise above our heads and keep

Connection with the winds on which our seeds have come

And it’s there we lay and rest our dead

It’s there the last goodbyes are said

We see it and we know that we will all be one

You may think it’s worthless, you may think it’s small

And for that we have no need

But reality is bigger than the lies you have grown

From your spiritless greed

There is a deep and distant force

That knows the way and holds the course

We’ve travelled so uncertainly through year to year

And it strengthens as we pass it on

Our children growing graceful strong

We feel it and we’re certain that our way is clear