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If I close my eyes I can see the river redgum rising green against the dawn

I can hear the sacred silence of Wilpena in the morning

All I have to do is close my eyes

If I close my eyes

I can see the sunlight tumbling down between the native pines

Broken by the breeze, splashing red and orange light

I can see the wedge-tailed eagle climbing stairways in the sky;

If I close my eyes

And if I close my eyes

I’m flying 40,000 years

To Wilpena in the dream-time

Where the rock sweeps to the air

And the hills run from the mountainside into a haze of blue…

All I have to do is close my eyes

If I close my eyes

Underneath the windswept southern sky, Wilpena’s ancient shrine

Running down the centuries, leaving this one far behind

Touch the starlight streaming from the blackness of the night

All I have to do is close my eyes

But if we close our eyes

There’ll be black-and whited waiters serving cocktails on the green

And whirring motor-driven cameras drinking in the scene

And people running credit-checks behind a silver screen

If we close our eyes

And if I close my eyes

I’m staring into endless night

And in the hissing of the campfire

As the smoke curls to the night;

I hear Nepabunna angels chanting out Wilpena’s plight

If I close my eyes

And if I close my eyes

I’m flying 40,000 years

To Wilpena in the dream-time

Where the rock sweeps to the air

And the hills run from the mountainside, into a haze of blue

All I have to do is close my eyes

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