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Truth Teller
02:56
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Those slaver statues stand so tall
Coloniser’s concrete foundations
Cementing to the core
Our source for indignation
The base on which your values are built
The basis for removal of guilt
Your fortune at the expense of their toil
Loss of your tears or their blood in the soil
Pull down their effigies
Destroy the likeness
We don’t need to see it in stone
To know their role in crisis
Spit on that pedestal
Undo the glory of thieves
Hold up the mirror to murderers
Don’t look up to those who deceive
Is it erasing history
If you never wrote or taught it truthfully?
It’s not the pen or the sword
But who holds it
Not the lore or the myth
But who moulds it
Reality aside
Stories owned by who’s heard
There lies your pride?
Lives and legacies blurred
Truth teller
Soothsayer
Repeat the sins of the past
Flying your flag at half mast
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2. |
The Hammer
03:00
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Poisons in your cup
Margins lit up
Ostracised and tried
Strung up, crucified
For taking lead
Where you don’t
We heal and succeed
Fight and moan
Saviour as satan when it suits
Madonna, Medusa in absolutes
Saviour as satan when it suits
Salem’s lot
Give back what we got
Hunt you down
Steal your crown
This pit you’re in
Product of your sin
This chase you feel
Is karma gnashing your heel
We are the daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn
Another scapegoat when the tide turns
Confess your fear
Ignite the pyre
Admit defeat
Feed our fire
Call this a witch hunt now?
The hammer strikes down
Paranoia takes hold
You’ll be accountable
For how you target her
For how you hurt them all
For the control you wield
We are the witches now. Yield.
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3. |
Linchpin
02:58
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A horse of Troy planted at the gates
Brutus sharpens his knife
I turn my back to evade the blade
Accede, impaled on the strife
My own betrayer
The traitor is me
My own betrayer
Shadow box myself to lethargy
Treasonous self-belief is treachery
What am I?
My Judas
I’m useless
Excuses
I don’t choose this
I won’t choose this
My own betrayer
My own betrayer
(The traitor won’t be me)
My own betrayer
(The traitor won’t be me)
Redemption comes from within
Within
The linchpin
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4. |
Tied Through Time
03:12
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Displaced and detached
From her mother’s arms she’s dragged
Bloodlines corrupted through rape
To colonise her mind and whiten her skin
Songlines disrupted by hate to destroy culture and kin
Decades on, her descendants are torn
From their father’s hand, they’re wrought
Stolen again
Removed for “protection”
Generations tied through time by trauma and poverty
Steal the child to keep her safe
From all she is? From who she needs?
Or maybe just from you?
Sorry means you don’t do it again
Sorry
Forcing black circles into your square frame.
“All let us rejoice” in your shame.
Never learning from our past mistakes
We repeat, and lines of culture break
Makarrata to bring peace
We were never young and free
The oldest lasting culture we know
Persists despite the “salvation” - you bestow
Yet the longest surviving civilisation
Outlives your mission to civilise
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5. |
Fortify
03:26
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HOLD - Hold me down
PUSH - Push me out
IGNORE my worth
Unseen and unheard
SHRINK - Shrink my size
CRAMPED - Tight and small
SOFTEN my words
Crumble and crawl
I will not be minimised
To fortify your place on thin ice
Bushels in the way
All they do is darken our days
Are you afraid of the light they hide?
Bushels in the way
All they do is darken our days
Watch as we set them alight
A mind that takes
A body that grows
A heart that gives
A voice that bellows
I can’t be diminished by anything I accept about who I am
The value in me
Outshines the gaslight that you use
Blinded from truth
I will not be minimised
To fortify your place on thin ice
Bushels in the way
All they do is darken our days
Are you afraid of the light they hide?
Bushels in the way
All they do is darken our days
Watch as we set them alight
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6. |
Breathless
02:38
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Made breathless
By violence
By silence
By poverty
By trauma
By erasure
By tragedy
We hold our breath
Waiting for the tide to turn
Time to unlearn
Expel and release
Made breathless
By harm
By custom
By distrust
By grief
No relief
Turn to dust
We hold our breath
Waiting for the tide to turn
Time to unlearn
Expel and release
Breathe in
Breathe out
We give it oxygen
Lean in
Flare out
Now we’re breathing fire
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7. |
The Call
07:30
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Fear of the known
Is a horror show
Internalised
Compromised
Corrupted from the inside
Betrayed by lies
The self, despised
In plain sight it hides
The calls still come
From inside the house
We all still have
To unpack the load
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8. |
Burn
01:29
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Exhaustion
Setting in
Tough skin
Wearing thin
Bold eyes
Turning blind
Each hour
Losing my mind
Weak grip
Mind trick
Caught breath
Skipped beat
Sand the rails
Choke the brake
Jump clean
Last chance to take
Weak grip
Mind trick
Caught breath
Skipped beat
I won’t set myself on fire
just to keep you warm
Not my turn
Not my turn to burn
Runaway train
No way off
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9. |
Tyrants & Vultures
03:17
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Check out these new stone boots we're asked to swim in
Despair, our shackles with hope wearing thin
As kingmakers stand watching empires fall
We just accept, brainwashed and enthralled
We'll keep biding our time
Biting our tongues until blood fills our lungs
Mesmerized by our greed
Lathered in snake oil, the lies we've believed
Hoarding meaningless wealth
With a sense of growing dread
We find ourselves tempered by tyrants and vultures
Who feed off the living and gorge on the dead
The ballot or the bullet
Aggravating “white” noise
Other voices are drowned in the deafening sound
Proof replaced by belief
The people’s will stolen by a popular thief
Disinformation
Widens the gap
Truth in the eye of the bot holder
A critical thinking lapse
Lacking empathy, the discourse gets colder
Encouraging coward bigots
To become bolder
Spoon fed our biases as truth
Deliberate lies become proof instead
We find ourselves tempered by tyrants and vultures
Who feed off the living and gorge on the dead
A failing culture of lies
built on fear in the guise
Of security offering salvation
We're all complicit as dull lives idly pass by
Too distracted, afraid
We edge forward to isolation
Reap what we've sown
Think or be overthrown
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10. |
Silent Spring
05:33
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1958
The year the skies went silent
An ominous sign to be observed
She asked the question
Of what killed all the birds?
Found the answers and told the world
Canary in the coal mine
A warning just in time
Canary in the coal mine
Poisoned by pesticides
And her call created lasting change
Generations later
Bird populations
Have dropped by billions
But the slow death is our own
We’ve asked the question
How can we stop climate change?
But contradictory voices
Drown out a dying cry
We forget
We accept
We move on
With no regrets
The slow passing of time
Makes change look benign
Skewed by our recency bias
Instead of trusting the science
As climate deniers
Change their approach
From deny to delay
To prolong their gains
Powerful industry lobbies
Protecting fossil fuels
PR campaigns designed to confuse
And green wash the truth
The science is there
For those who choose to look
Memory fades
Oblivious day to day
The slippery slope
Of melting icecaps
All leading back
to the same evidentiary truth
Listen to the birds
Canary in the coal mine
Once again the warning comes
Listen to the birds
(But we no longer listen)
Listen to the earth
(But we no longer listen)
Listen to the youth
Listen to the evidence
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OUTRIGHT Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Hardcore
est. 2010
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