We want it back OR Southern Cross

Song from LookUpLookUp 2019 Melissa Main

Oh southern cross

I seek you

in the skies above my head

when I’m looking for home

on my feet I roam

but I know

when I see you

I’m as close as I’m ever gonna get

Oh southern cross

you lie next to

The emu in the sky

I can’t see you through

the hazy city lights

all the Bogong moths are lost

there’s a silence in our stories

a secret holocaust

Tattooed

upon the skin

of angry white men

shouting things in the name

of a constellation

we want it back

We all

belong to the

sky

Oh Southern Cross

you are a gum tree

with 2 noisy cockatoos

chasing you forever

you’re a stingray and a shark,

you’re a wedge-tailed eagle’s foot

you’re the eyes of mirabooka

looking at us in the dark

so many things

you are

scrawled upon the skin

of angry white men

shouting things in the name

of a constellation

we want it back

We all

belong

to the

sky