Don't want to live in a prison cell

don't want to live in a smoking room,

independence just won't come to you

in the brief of a diplomat.



Say your prayers for the future

say your prayers for the past,

it might be round the corner

it might be all we have.

Say your Prayers.



Don't want to live with a compromise

don't want to live with hypocrisy,

bureaucracy doesn't have to win

breaks the cage of the beast within.



Say your prayers in the boardroom

say your prayers on the stairs,

it might be catastrophic

it might be too damn bad.

Say your prayers.



I got the cure for compassion fatigue

spend a week with the Timorese,

running scared from the military

you can share you can share your disease.



Now we don't live with an absent master

we don't live on an island divided,

don't want my kids to grow up in shame

in a country with a different name

had to throw them out, had to break the chains.



I got the cure for compassion fatigue

spend a week with the Timorese,

running scared from the military

I come to you with a plaintive plea.