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Our existence; the one you tried to erase.
You never listened; til it all went up in flames.
You never saw us, until you looked for someone to blame.
Our resistance; persistent.
Take. All. Own nothing.
Our resilience.
(Now) A spit in your face.
Despite your efforts,
We are here to stay.
You have given all you’ve got,
But it’s not enough.
Because this always was,
And always will be
Consider giving up.
We’re here despite the odds.
Because this always was,
And always will be.
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Second summer
First time
Red leather
Divine
Cold jazz
Hot skin
Broken alibi
Metallic grin
I wait past June
The winter promise
Came through
Bones won’t heal with time
If you’re not mine
Don’t make me break your heart
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Finger on the trigger,
Finger on the button,
Which lesser nation’s,
Left to be suffering?
Deploy and destroy,
Deploy and destroy,
Stockpiles built,
At rates alarming,
All resources for,
The process of arming,
Deploy and destroy,
Deploy and destroy,
Deploy and destroy,
Deploy and destroy.
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Memories rotten,
You’re forgotten,
Reminisce, let it rot,
Recollect, let it rot
Rot
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Brumby on the wide plain,
All men out to break you,
My warm fellow-feeling
Hopes they never take you!
Dingo on the lone ridge,
Fleeing as you spy them,
Every hand against you,
May you still defy them!
All things wild and tameless,
Hunted down and hated,
Something in my wild heart
With your own is mated.
Dingo, wild bushranger,
Brumby that they ban so,
May you still outmatch them,
May you foil the man-foe!
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Get it, get it!
We wake up ten steps behind you
We wake up with your chains still around our necks
Line us up and pull the strings of your puppets
Make us dance and kill us off when you're on the the next show
Sacrificing who we really are
Dip us in bleach so it's easy to blend in
You wouldn't want us to be a stain on your nation
(Your distain for our culture)
Slap us in paint and show us off to your friends
You make your money but then make no amends
We've always been just a joke and a burden to you
But that's nothing compared to what we think of you
You want to know why I don't sing along to your song
Because every day I wake up to hear another black life has been taken away
Breaking the laws they put in place to oppress us
Just another way to segregate us (so trigger happy)
Because one less on the streets is a win for you
Breaking the laws put in place to oppress us
Just another way to segregate us (you lock them up)
A life sentence to them ain't but a thing to you
White washed history from beginning to end
Still treating us like we're second class citizens
You gave us a sorry, but do the same things
Still taking our land, our children
Fighting spirit yet to be broken
Get it now?
Do you see what you've done to us?
Do you get it now?
My people are dying as you are lying in your beds
And your people are lying as we've got targets on our heads
Breaking the laws they put in place to oppress us
Just another way to segregate us (so trigger happy)
Because one less on the streets is a win for you
Breaking the laws they put in place to oppress us
Just another way to segregate us (you lock them up)
A life sentence to them ain't but a thing to you
You want to know why I don't sing along to your song?
Because you built your nation on our backs and never recognised us
You want to know why I don't sing along to your song?
Because as long as we're still here, we're gonna give you hell
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Let’s take our blankets out
to the water
a veil of blue phantoms
ascends like a curtain
whispers illume
where snow consumed
I still hear your voice in this room
like the ocean in a seashell
all the trouble that we used to get into
I miss you like hell
This planet is too big
it keeps stealing you away
as it does I’m in love
in this hour roseate
where softly gloom
evades our view
I still hear your voice in this room
like the ocean in a seashell
all the trouble that we used to get into
I miss you like hell
Speeding silver cars
we met the prince of the velvet dark
I love the way you are
don’t go changing for anyone
Speeding silver cars
our cheeks were red and I was in awe
we held a trembling flower
born from the snow on a frozen moor
I still hear your voice in this room
like the ocean in a seashell
all the trouble that we used to get into
I miss you like hell
I kiss your shoulders as I feel you fade away
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Dumb luck-y country,
save your breath, what do you have to gain?
a parody, a shame,
are thick skulls to blame?
The green and gold displays, safe home and apathy.
Democracy for free,
spoon in mouth we're fucking gagging!
What does it take to fucking motivate?
Hate rally cry, and we'll get in line.
Protecting whose fucking way of life? I don't know.
We used to ride it's back, but now the rules have changed.
What does it take, to fucking motivate?
What does it take, to motivate change?
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Disgusted by your false sense of pride
Ashamed that we walk the same earth
Betrayed by the ones you’ve held close
You don’t speak for me
Twisted views from a twisted mind
A product of your environment, pay no mind
No excuses, we’re better than that
I won’t fall into your trap
Close my mind, no not like that
Break you down, break you apart
Rip you open, shut down the threat
My brothers, my sons
Please forgive all that I’ve done
Those before and those to come
Please know your days are gone
Shut down the threat
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released March 19, 2020
