JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "The Dead Heart" merupakan lagu dari grup musik rock asal Australia, Midnight Oil.
Lagu ini keluar sebagai singel pada 1986 silam dan dimuat dalam album keenam mereka, Diesel and Dust, yang diluncurkan setahun kemudian.
Pada tahun perilisannya, singel ini mendapat nominasi Best Single dalam acara penghargaan musik di Australia.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Blue Sky Mine dari Midnight Oil
Simak lirik dan chord lagu "The Dead Heart" dari Midnight Oil berikut ini.
B E A
We don't serve your country
B E A
Don't serve your king
B E A
Know your custom, don't speak your tongue
B E A
White man came took everyone
B E A
We don't serve your country
B E A
We don't serve your king
B E A
White man listen to the songs we sing
B E A
White man came took everything
Bm A G
We carry in our hearts the true country
F#m D A
And that cannot be stolen
Bm A G
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
F#m A D A
And that cannot be broken
B E A
We don't serve your country
B E A
We don't serve your king
B E A
Know your custom don't speak your tongue
B E A
White man came took everyone
B E A
We don't need protection
B E A
Don't need your hand
B E A
Keep your promise on where we stand
B E A
We will listen we'll understand
Bm A G
We carry in our hearts the true country
F#m D A
And that cannot be stolen
Bm A G
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
F#m A D A
And that cannot be broken
Bm A G
We carry in our hearts the true country
F#m D A
And that cannot be stolen
Bm A G
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
F#m A D A
And that cannot be broken
Mining companies, pastoral companies
Uranium companies, collected companies
Got more right than people
Got more say than people
Forty thousand years can make a difference to the state of things
The dead heart
The dead heart
The dead heart
The dead heart
The dead heart
The dead heart
The dead heart
The dead heart
The dead heart
The dead heart
The dead heart lives here