[Verse 1]
Out in the desert where red country runs,
They split the morning with test-site suns.
The Crown came with its orders planned,
And carved its claim through sacred land.
Anangu watched as the trucks rolled through,
Old law broken by men passing through.
The country cried, but no one cared,
They left the future damaged and scared.

[Verse 2]
They promised the land would heal with time,
But time don’t mend a nuclear crime.
Decades pass, the readings stayed,
In test pits where the fallout weighed.
The men in London walked away clean,
But damage stayed in places unseen.
Clean-up came years too late,
You can’t scrub clean a nuclear fate.

[Pre-Chorus]
You can hide the facts, but the desert knows,
Maralinga’s story, wherever it goes.

Maralinga still stands…
In the red earth… in the red sand…

[Pre-Chorus]
You can hide the facts, but the desert knows,
Maralinga’s story, wherever it goes.

[Bridge]
No reparations, no peace in sight,
The story shifts, but the wrong remains.
You took the land, the future too,
But Maralinga still calls to you.

[Breakdown]
You called it cleared,
you called it done.
But Maralinga
won’t be gone.
The story shifts, but the wrong remains.
You took the land, the future too,
But Maralinga still calls to you.

[Breakdown]
You called it cleared,
you called it done.
But Maralinga
won’t be gone.

[Final Chorus]

Maralinga, your name still rings,

The red Country mourns for everything.

Old law holds under desert sky,

 While the Anangu still wonder why.

Maralinga, buried in lies,

The lessons are there, but never returned.

The wounds run deep in the heart of the earth,

Australia cries for what it's worth.

[Outro: Slow, fading, echoing vocals]
[Whispered] Maralinga… it still stands.
[Echoing] In the red earth… in the red sand.