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I grew up
In England depressed
Cos there's no sunshine
One day
A mate said Down Under
It's nothing but good times
I said
I got 1500 quid
Cos my gran died
I said
Let's split the cash and
Fly to the sunshine
Always was and always will be
Aboriginal land
When we landed
I couldn't believe it
The sky's so blue
When I felt
That sun in my bones
I felt brand new
When I tasted
The food the quality was
Like nothing I knew
When I saw
The beauty around me
I went boo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Always was and always will be
Aboriginal land
But as I got
to learn the history
I couldn't believe it
Lies told
About terra nullius
Saying no one lived here
People wiped
Out by smallpox
Brought in vials here
Land taken
By legal fiction
There's been no treaty
Always was and always will be
Aboriginal land
This land
Deserves better leaders
I know who I'd choose
People who
Can look after it
Who've paid their dues
Survivors
Of its wild ways
And all its moves
White man
Has picked a fight that
He's gonna lose
Always was and always will be
Aboriginal land
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Science has the facts, people lose with fake news
Anti-vaxxers? That's a first world thing
Grow up facing death, you don't reject medicine
You don't believe me? Just look at the stats
Ain't no Bangladeshis wearing tin foil hats
Science has the facts, people lose with fake news
So climate change is a Marxist scam
And COVID's a ruse in their master plan
It's good to ask questions, doubt everything
But the wrong answers could do us all in
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You put up that wall, we'll tear it down
Divide and rule's been round for millennia
That shit's getting tired man I'm tellin' ya
Give people any enemy to scare them
Then tell em you're the one that'll save them
Build a wall, stoke fears and shit em up
Tell em stories anything to wind em up
Whip up, whip up prejudice
Whip, whip up the fear
You put up that wall, we'll tear it down
I can't believe the stuff that you're feeding us
There's only one place all this shit is leading us
World War 3, oblivion, a dead earth
A testament to putting petty profits first
You build walls to build fear and build up hate
Don't think too hard, just manipulate
But your... time is running out
Yes you're... facing oblivion
You put up that wall, we'll tear it down
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4. |
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Why Are You In Riot Gear? I Don't See No Riot Here
We're holding banners, you're holding guns
We're smiling at you, but you're no fun
We're here to protest, you're ready to fight
We know you'll get someone in a cell tonight
We're here for justice, but you're the law
We know you wanna stop what we're fighting for
We want change, and you don't
You're here to stop us, but you won't
We show our faces, you're all in masks
We flaunt our badges, but yours are masked
We call for peace, you want a war
We see from your actions who you're fighting for
You should protect us, but you serve money
Without your uniform, you ain't nobody
You're meant to serve us, you work for them
It's always the two of us that suffer in the end
A Capitol riot, you weren't there
When they ain't black, you don't care
You let them all in, they ran riot
But if you're not white, don't even try it
You've got your pepper spray, you've got your mace
Say anything wrong, it's in our face
You've got your batons, you've got your cuffs
We look the wrong way, well that's enough
What's banned in warfare? Tear gas
You spray it on us, we're not masked
Your increased weapons are 'for peace'
But increase violence by police
Your army tactics bend the law
The very thing that you enforce
Your armoured cars are a huge expense
Your riot gear don't make any sense
Why Are You In Riot Gear?
I Don't See No Riot Here - or am I blind?
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5. |
Got To Let Them In
03:57
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Zoom out to space
There's no borders
No border force
Making orders
Just a single
Human race
Inhabiting
The same place
Zoom back in
See the borders
Stopping people
Fleeing murder
Excisions
Keep them at bay
Divisions
Breeding hatred
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
When you wage war
Over there
Don't expect them
To stay there
Don't expect them
To be peaceful
Don't expect to
Stay unequal
How would you feel
Under attack
Would anything
Hold you back
From fleeing
For your life
Trying to get to
The other side
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
Refugees
Ain't illegal
And banning legals?
That's just evil
It's our leaders
Breaking the laws
When they go slam
Those doors
People dying
in detention
Going crazy
From the tension
Got em drugged up
On medication
Only way to
Keep then waiting
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
Global passports
They're a new thing
Only been around
For a century
Only standardised
In the Eighties
So why are immigrants
So hated?
We're all being
divided
Being played like
We're blinded
To the bait that
Keeps us biting
To the lies that
Keep us fighting
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
Got to let them in
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They say accident, but we say murder
they say accident, we say no way
They say accident, but we say murder
they say accident, we say no way
Finding this country
That's not an accident
Saying no one lived here
That's not an accident
Shooting the Gweagal
That's not accident
Passing on smallpox
That's not an accident
Recording no houses
That's not an accident
Saying they were nomads
That's not an accident
Wiping out language
Is that an accident?
I suppose you're gonna say
That's an accident as well?
They say accident, but we say murder
they say accident, we say no way
They say accident, but we say murder
they say accident, we say no way
Not naming guides
That's not an accident
Not learning names
That's not an accident
Poisoning waterholes
That's not an accident
Not paying wages
That's not an accident
Taking away children
That's not an accident
An empty apology
That's not an accident
Doing at all again
Is that an accident?
I suppose you're gonna say
That's an accident as well?
They say accident, but we say murder
they say accident, we say no way
They say accident, but we say murder
they say accident, we say no way
Deaths in custody
That's not an accident
No investigations
That's not an accident
There'd been no Commission
That's not an accident
Its findings were surprising
That's not an accident
They didn't act upon it
That's not an accident
Jailing rates doubled
That's not an accident
Being drunk's illegal
Is that an accident?
I suppose you're gonna say
That's an accident as well?
They say accident, but we say murder
they say accident, we say no way
They say accident, but we say murder
they say accident, we say no way
Not allowing a phone call
That's not an accident
Ignoring illness
That's not an accident
A poor standard of care
That's not an accident
Hanging points are still there
That's not an accident
Cook a man to death
That's not an accident
Crush a man to death
That's not an accident
Being chased to death
Is that an accident?
Well you've made it official
That's an accident as well
They say accident, but we say murder
they say accident, we say no way
They say accident, but we say murder
they say accident...
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We'll strike till we win, build solar, build wind
We'll strike till we win, build solar, build wind
They're still pushing gas now
I can't believe it
Trying to milk that cash cow
When the world's gone to shit
And they're all pushing clean coal
Like it actually exists
throwing money in that hole
With no sign of an exit
We'll strike till we win, build solar, build wind
We'll strike till we win, build solar, build wind
Got their fossil fuel subsidies
Cos it's a corrupt system
propping up an industry
That can't go the distance
And they're pushing blue hydrogen
Claiming it's a clean fuel
It's got gas as an origin
Who are they trying to fool???
We'll strike till we win, build solar, build wind
We'll strike till we win, build solar, build wind
They're still trying to go nuclear
Doubting the fallout
But let's get one thing quite clear
The costs always blow out
And they draw up false goals
Pushing net zero
Grim reaper at the controls
Watch it burn like Nero
We'll strike till we win, build solar, build wind
We'll strike till we win, build solar, build wind
They claim that it's about jobs
Despite them being automated
But there's not gonna be jobs
On a planet that's been wasted
So the kids are on strike now
And you can't dismiss them
All you fossils take a hike now
We're changing the system
We'll strike till we win, build solar, build wind
We'll strike till we win, build solar, build wind
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Stop being a terrorist
We the people must resist
Stop being a terrorist
You say we're terrorists
We know what terror is
It's raining down on us
and coming from
you pacifists
All you peace keepers
Waging war on us again
You got that hammer
In your hands now
Everything that you see
is a nail now
Gotta hammer us
Till we give it all to you
Stop being a terrorist
We the people must resist
Stop being a terrorist
You say you're pacifists
We know what pathos is
It's getting freed
By your peaceful bombing raids
Libertarians
taking liberties again
You got the Peace Prize
With drone fly bys
Increased the nukes
While telling us the opposite
So who's the terrorist
When you count up all the dead
Stop being a terrorist
We the people must resist
Stop being a terrorist
You say your Empire
Don't exist now
But you've got bases
In every place you say you left
Still ruling us
By the bank or the gun
Will war ever end
When it's lucrative?
Humanitarians are
making a killing now
You'll never give it up
When there's money to be made
Stop being a terrorist
We the people must resist
Stop being a terrorist
The British Empire
Killed 10 million
Another million
From B Liar's oil war
It takes millions
When you're making billions
So when we strike back
Don't be so surprised
What you reap
is what you sow now
You wanna stop terror?
Then don't be terrorists
Stop being a terrorist
We the people must resist
Stop being a terrorist
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No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
Politicians had it easy
Got their education for free
Now they say paying's mandatory
What's the lesson? Hypocrisy
Gotta export coal and iron
Then third is education
Just play down all that racism
Or else you're gonna scare them off
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
What happened to learning for knowledge?
Broadening your mental horizons?
Now it's all about monetising
Only valued if it can turn a buck
What happened to students and scholars?
All we've got now is clients and customers
And they all want first class service
And it's gotta come without a fail
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
Grade inflation becomes a problem
When professors give As too often
But they're all trying to boost their own scores
Gotta hold on to a paying job
Got the staff on casual contracts
Trying to claw stolen wages back
Got them living so precariously
They're all terrified of speaking out
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
No cuts, no fees, no corporate universities
When your work has corporate funding
Don't make any adverse findings
Just make sure you turn a blind eye
Or you'll find yourself without a job
You wanna keep people comforming?
Keep them going to work each morning?
Keep them mindlessly performing?
Load em up then, with crushing debt
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Hey hey, ho ho, ScoMo's got to go
He brought in a lump of coal
To Parliament
Held up that dirty rock
Like a diamond
Told people don't be scared
Of the climate
Politicians are for sale
Is what he meant
Australia went up in flames
He went on holidays
Hiding in Hawaii
To dodge the media gaze
As Sydney disappeared
Beneath the smoke haze
And firefighters died
Trying to fight the blaze
Hey hey, ho ho, ScoMo's got to go
He came back and apologised
Tried to shake hands
But couldn't find a hand to shake
right across the land
Everywhere that Scotty went
He found himself banned
no one likes an arsonist
In a burnt land
The world moved on from coal
He started pushing gas
Claiming it's a clean fuel
Cos they'd donated cash
Wrecking all the farmland
Despite the backlash
Destroying the country
From reef to outback
Hey hey, ho ho, ScoMo's got to go
He told us he'd stop the boats
From getting here
Told MPs he'd get the votes
By tapping fear
Didn't care if people fleeing
Were refugees
Claimed he wasn't racist
By cooking curry
Opposed same-sex marriage
Citing God's will
Despite most voters
Backing the bill
Said he didn't want his daughters
Being bedevilled
Despite it being legal
He's trying to crush it still
Hey hey, ho ho, ScoMo's got to go
Confronted by a rape claim
In his cabinet
He tried to shut the case down
Wasn't having it
When thousands of women marched
He refused to meet
Said that they could all be shot
For protesting shit
Refused to condemn Trump
For the riot
Cos Trump let him to do things
On the quiet
Like pushing coal to a world
that doesn't buy it
Cos Trump made him look sane
In the light of it
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An eight-hour day, yearly vacations
Minimum pay, in line with inflation
All these things would not exist
If it weren't for unions
Parental leave, penalty rates
Reduced powers to terminate
These things would not be here today
Without the power of unity
The workers united will never be defeated
The workers united will never be defeated
Safer spaces, fewer deaths
Workplaces that must pass the test
Would never be reality
If it all came down to profit
Child labour, people enslaved
Contracts where your rights are waived
All these things would be the norm
If workers never fought
The workers united will never be defeated
The workers united will never be defeated
The bosses know it's a constant war
They know what they are fighting for
The power to screw every last dime
From the labour they exploit
The sixties showed the power of the workers
Ever since they've been trying to hurt us
But there's no way they'll ever get
That genie back in the bottle
The workers united will never be defeated
The workers united will never be defeated
Colombia had the strongest unions
Bosses hit back with paramilitary units
Members get murdered in their thousands
But still they're fighting on
The firms now use psychology
Making out that they're democracies
But their feedback groups will fool no one
As long as we stick together
The workers united will never be defeated
The workers united will never be defeated
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Mat Ward Australia
Mat Ward blends future bass, drum and bass, punk and politics to come up with a different sound. He has released albums about financial markets, Apple, Elon Musk, surveillance, the media, Mars, protest chants and the climate. He also writes books and a music column that has been shared by the likes of Ru Paul, Chuck D, Tom Morello and Al Jourgensen. ... more
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