One among the hundreds, crying for the millions
 And when the house lights break the trance
 Only then unclasp our hands
 Compose ourselves and fix our hair
 "We would have all been Schindler there"
 Drive in silence slowly home
 Now horror's more than skin and bone

 And can you see in twenty years
 We'll pay to shed the same cheap tears
 In a film about an island, watch our hero take a stand
 Pay our money gladly to wash our hands

 Watching the movie we'll ask how the people might have known
 Let it happen there without a fight
 Kept driving on quietly home
 Left the Timorese alone - 400 miles from Darwin

 The two-minute hate is now the three-hour love
 With any action left to up above
 Those people then could turn their heads
 Now all the same we sleep instead
 While 400 miles from Darwin
 East Timor is dying

 Watching the movie we'll ask how the people might have known
 Let it happen there without a fight
 Kept driving on quietly home
 Left the Timorese alone - 400 miles from Darwin