Looking for a Story - John Williamson

Lookin' for a story to stir the Aussie soul

But the truth won’t go away when you shovel in a hole

Or bring a mother soulless when all her tears are shed

And you hope there is a Heaven

Yeah, looking for a story to make you cry with pride

When a boy just out of school was taken for a ride

From Dunkirk to Albany, to Egypt on a ship

To diving deep in water with a bayonet on his hip

To diving deep in water

And no one has apologized for sending him to die

On that stony beach or told his mother why

No God can give an answer, no blessing can be found

In a body blown apart, half buried in the ground

But we do it again, and again, and again

We send our boys to war

Why’s the world so crazy when we’ve seen it all before?

We talk about the bond old soldiers made

The lonely words they said

Before they lifted up their rifles and shot each other in the head

They lifted up their rifles