i wanna live i wanna die under the light of the great southern sky i wanna run straight through the night chasing the stars with a heart open wide under a great southern sky theres a song you can hear it playing in a country town the anthem of the young and free thats what im talking bout like flooding rains and overflows desert plains and red dugouts walk abouts that take me home a place that everybody knows ooohhh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oohh oh in the state im in is on my mind ooohhh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oohh oh in the place i live im so alive toniiiiiightttttt i wanna live i wanna die under the light of the great southern sky i wanna run straight through the night chasing the stars with a heart open wide high on a plainnnnn in thunder and raiiiiiiiinnn i wanna live i wanna die under the light of the great southern sky theres a spirit can you feel it going in this country wide from the burning sun in arnhem land across the great divide children singing out aloud we are one and we are proud the futures starting here and now sing it all together now ooohhh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oohh oh in the place i live im so alive toniiiiiightttttt i wanna live i wanna die under the light of the great southern sky i wanna run straight through the night chasing the stars with a heart open wide high on a plainnnnn in thunder and raiiiiiiiinnn i wanna live i wanna die under the light of the great southern sky ooohhh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oohh oh under the light of the great southern sky ooohhh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oohh oh i wanna live i wanna die under the light of the great southern sky i wanna run straight through the night chasing the stars with a heart open wide high on a plainnnnn in thunder and raiiiiiiiinnn i wanna live i wanna die under the light of the great southern sky ooohhh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oohh oh under the light of the great southern sky ooohhh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oohh oh under the light of the great southern sky toniiiiiightttttt