Spirit Bird adalah lagu dari album ke 7 musikus multi instrumen yang berasal dari Australia; Xavier Rudd. Album yang juga berjudul Spirit Bird ini di rilis pada Juni 2012 setelah direkam di studio yang berada sisi danau Ontario Kanada. Saat diluncurkan album ini berhasil masuk Canadian Albums Chart pada posisi 36 dan ARIA album chart di posisi 2. Saat dirilis di minggu pertama di Australia barat, Queensland dan Victoria, album ini merupakan album terlaris di sana.

Xavier Rudd yang lahir pada tanggal 29 Mei 1978 merupakan penyanyi, penulis lagu, musisi yang berasal dari Australia. Beberapa lagunya bertema sosial, spiritual, kemanusiaan, dan lingkungan yang terutama berhubungan dengan hak-hak penduduk asli Australia. Itu karena ia merasa dirinya keturunan Aborigin, SAkotlandia dan juga Irlandia.

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Spirit Bird is the seventh studio album by Australian multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd. It was released on 8 June 2012. Rudd recorded most of the album in Ontario, Canada at a studio in a wooden cottage by a lake. "Follow The Sun", which features the sound of magpies at the start, was the last track recorded for the album, and the only song recorded outside of Canada, at Studios 301 in Byron Bay. The album debuted at number 36 on the Canadian Albums Chart and at number 2 on the ARIA album chart. In the album's first week of release it was the biggest selling album in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria.

Xavier Rudd (born 29 May 1978) is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. Several of Rudd's songs incorporate socially conscious themes, such as spirituality, humanity, environmentalism and the rights of Indigenous Australians. Xavier Rudd grew up in Jan Juc, Victoria. Rudd claims to be of Aboriginal, Irish and Scottish heritage, furthermore mentioning being of Wurundjeri ancestry, and that one of his great grandmothers was an Aboriginal Australian, and her child (Rudd's paternal grandmother) was taken away from her.

Lyrics of the song:
Spirit Bird

Give it time and we wonder why
Do what we can laugh and we cry
And we sleep in your dust because
We've seen this all before
Culture fades with tears and grace
Leaving us stunned hollow with shame
We have seen this all, seen this all before
Many tribes of a modern kind doing brand new work same spirit by side
Joining hearts and hands and ancestral twine, ancestral twine
Many tribes of a modern kind doing brand new work same spirit by side
Joining hearts and hands and ancestral twine, ancestral twine

Slowly it fades
Slowly we fade
Slowly we fade
Slowly we fade

Spirit bird he creaks and groans
She knows she has seen this all before
She has seen this all before, she has
Spirit bird he creaks and groans
She knows she has seen this all before
She has seen this all before, she has

Slowly we fade
Slowly it fades
Slowly we fade
Slowly it fades
Slowly we fade

Soldier on, soldier on my good countrymen
Keep fighting for your culture now
Keep fighting for your land
I know it's been thousands of years
And I feel your hurt
And I know it's wrong and you feel you've been chained
And broken and burned
And those beautiful old people
Those wise old souls
Have been ground down for far too long
By that spineless man
That greedy man
That heartless man
Deceiving man, that government hand
Taking blood and land, taking blood and land
And still they can
But your dreaming and your warrior spirit lives on
And it is so so so strong
In the earth, in the trees, in the rocks
In the water, in your blood and in the air we breathe
Soldier on, soldier on my good countrymen
Keep fighting for your children now
Keep fighting for your land

Slowly we fade
Slowly it fades
Slowly it fades
Slowly we fade

Give it time and we wonder why
Do what we can, laugh and we cry
And we sleep in your dust because we've seen this all before