1.2020
It's not as if you didn't get the warning
You got the transcripts and recordings
History has a way of signing us up in the morning
But you're a late starter make it easy to ignore it
Later not recall it - yo
You had unfettered access to the facts
But the fact is your back was turned to the atlas
Nothing like not being in the crash test
To help you make your mind up - unknowingly the young sign up
The enemy of our enemy is still our enemy
So why are you arming them？ Is this insanity？
That's how the Taliban began
Watch 'em as they turn around and aim their weapons at Americans
Hows it feel to be a widowmaker
Taker of the father of the family？
Your tragedy is fate - that's and stakes - so scoff at the
Saigon link
Flash those pearlies Take us way past the brink
And we you knew you were frauds
But onwards we went to war
Nothing could be said to convince you
We've already seen it before
Someone could've told you it'd end like this
We did you didn't listen you can't take a trick
Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'd probably do it again
No one could have ever hoped to sway your mind
We've been there before but it's not your time
Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'd probably do it again
There's something familiar
About the story you told me
The way that you mouthed it, was not what you sold me
Well yes I'm one of many, yet you ignored the signs
You made it personal, don't spin me that line
You can't relax, 'cos it occurred on your watch
History will judge you 'cos you're all that we've got.
Is anyone listening？ Are you fucking insane？
Am I to sit watching as it plays out again？
The truth is - we knew this - people aren't stupid
you play the innocent because you think we let you do it
If we think you're too ruthless
Show you where the point of the boot is
It's all about where the fuck the proof is
You keep an eye on the new kid - he's liable to do shit
If you don't keep a check on it - beyond your electorate
Peace in Iraq man, stay in Afghanistan
Lookin' for Osama, getting killed by the Taliban？
War on drugs？ War on terror, 9-11？
We knew where Johnny stood - where's Kevin？
Don't get me wrong - like alarm clocks from Heaven
Going off when the country woke up in '07
But there's no letting up - yo, we're just getting up
Off the canvas - that very fact demands that
We stay as vigilant as can be - Transparency？
Another AWB - but we'll see
Even as we applaud
And we show them the door
thought we'd warn you that we're wary
'cos we've already seen it before
Someone could've told you it'd end like this
We did you didn't listen you can't take a trick
Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'd probably do it again
No one could have ever hoped to sway your mind
We've been there before but it's not your time
Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'd probably do it again
Someone could've told you it'd end like this
We did you didn't listen you can't take a trick
Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'd probably do it again
No one could have ever hoped to sway your mind
We've been there before but it's not your time
Lookin' back 2020 mistakes I got many
And the truth is that I'd probably do it again
2.Freedom Samba
It's after curfew so make sure that no one heard you
Just the suggestion of free expression could hurt you
Untamed aggression on the faces of the faithful
El patron is merciful they're eternally grateful
Coming out of the pep rally dawn at the stadium
Where they say the secret jail is - just put the cages in
Tear gas and horses disperse the demonstration - and turn the
native army on the native population
Official TV station has taken a different view
They say they're banning gatherings of any more than two
Because the president lives in mortal fear of a coup d'etat
He's raised his own militia - its autumn of the patriarch
Ordered that his body-double ride it at open car
Distribute gifts to the barrios that have done it hard
Some took the bait - they see hits as the father of the nation
that they can't hate - others just can't wait
To take back what they lost - they rally under black flags and
toss molotovs
But it's always freedom at what cost？
The pamphlet they dropped said that pacifism is a paradox
You turn the other cheek and cop another shot
The exiles want to shout 'You don't know what you've got'
Sometimes freedom is defined by what it's not
You never really knew where the road you walked ends up
You've got to keep your heads up
They'll try to tell you they're only trying to help
They'll lock you up to protect you from yourself
They'll lock you out to deflect you front their wealth
Create fear of a foe you can't see
Eventually now Its so plain to see
Its your freedom that's the first casualty
Tut tut go the paper call 'em terrorists
Paint 'em as psychopathic murderous savages
Isolate 'em try and make 'em illegitimate
Pro-government sources condemn 'em on the internet
The hearts and minds of the people are at the will of the
warlords
But they don't see him as a warlord
You can send your new and improved anti-terror units
To move and eliminate that's the civilians fate
Late night raids by nameless death squads
Small kids snarling at soldiers to 'Get lost'
You don't oven know of the feet you stepped on
So you neutralised the area well you're dead wrong
What about the missing we haven't heard from？
So there plenty mare volunteers to strap bombs
Doesn't take your forces long to catch on
This is anything but romantic - this is terror for two
I'm here with absolutely nothing to lose - and only one of us is
seeking the truth
They'll try to tell you they're only trying to help
They'll lock you up to protect you from yourself
They'll lock you out to deflect you front their wealth
Create fear of a foe you can't see
Eventually now Its so plain to see
Its your freedom that's the first casualty
3.The King Is Dead
We dance like new years eve, we
We dance from sheer relief, whoa oh
Everything must change
The people that you projected us as
We were nothing of the sort, sold us all short
Put down the champagne, no toast to the legacy
(no way) And all the propaganda of prosperity
That's what a machine does and they don't need therapy
You turned us into a nation of haters
Far-right appeaser／ believer in whatever get you leader
Dog whistle through the speakers
see who bites it, I noticed a hell of a lot of people liked it
An ethical choice is simpler if you price it
Conquer by dividing that's why you admired him？
unless pushed we would never have retired him
f＊＊kin pirate history will damn him
once it seemed like nothing could damage him
{Unkle Ho spits something in Mandarin}
Crook, you got your arse played in Mandarin!
Finally the King is Dead, we cried off with his head
Everything must change (Everything must change), everything must
change
We dance like New Years Eve, we dance from relief, everything
must change
(Nothing stays the same), Nothing stays the same oh
Nothing stays the same ohhh
Yeah Cats I know are feeling just like the rapture
And I can tell who this mood is failing to capture
It's like somebody finally did light that match up
And burn down the parliament, learned from the argument
Can't be non-partisan, when you're an artist
And you put your heart in it, and that's not even the half of it
Like my man said, we're talking butter and bread
Better if his words were never uttered again
Mostly vindictive, who could have predicted
Just a few tax breaks to keep us all addicted
The dickhead dictator, leader, imitator
Made me feel immature when I said 'I hate ya'
Did you read the paper the day after and hear the laughter？
I'll read it to you, it starts with M McKew and ends with you
No broader view from the people on your ship that you used to
call crew Huh!
That's typical, now I guess it's difficult
for the type of person who only thinks of individual
No residual, you'll see our resilience
Take your bat and ball and head for the pavilion.
Just promise me this, no rose petal glasses, quickly confine him
to part of the past
Just promise me this, no rose petal glasses, quickly confine him
to part of the past
Nothing stays the same oh...
Nothing stays the same oh...
4.Time To Face The Truth
You make sure your blokes don't go walkabout on Saturday, I want
everyone there at least an hour before the game＊
It ain't like that no more.
What？
I said, it's not like that anymore.
What's not...？
Yo can't see what's not incarceration,
And yet not one cop yet to be locked up.
Palm Island lock up, look up, the sky's falling,
change courts, look the law's talking.
Saying nothing that we ain't heard before,
in my hood, the police step out the car door.
Is it too hard？ Or is that what you're there for？
Racial profile？ Huh, and therefore
assumptions get made.
Man it must've been a good dose of hate
made the country this way.
Know they took the children away.
And there's still two systems of justice to this day.
Sorry - see, that's a long way from sovereignty,
White fellas still get away with robbery.
Seems like we need a big corroboree,
Well we don't have to turn our backs on the apology.
You can turn away or you can try to end the pain
if you can see how it really is.
No time to entertain thoughts with one-blood yes of course
we're off-course as it is.
Sun beats down and burns the white skin,
forefathers armed with sticks of lightning.
Disease and booze with dehumanising,
cold iron of an empire rising.
As pale as skin as pale as death
Got swept like floodwater down full of blood.
We kidnapped children.
That's what our enlightened pilgrims did,
they killed them.
This genocide God's work.
We don't know a thing about shame,
just Darwin's supreme.
Pass the blame like we share a dispute
The racism inherent in the endless cycle,
How can we celebrate Cook's arrival？
Now a whole people celebrate mere survival.
What if your brother was doomed？
'd you be like Kev Carmody, he planned his own eulogy.
We're disgracefully so far along
with half-hearted attempts to address the wrong.
This is your land I'm on. We owe much more than money,
But that's where we're restarting from.
You can turn away or you can try to end the pain,
if you can see how it really is.
No time to entertain thoughts with one-blood yes of course
we're off-course as it is.
I said, it's not like that anymore.
What's not...
Youse white fellas telling us black fellas what to do.
So much work to do,
so much pain still.
My heart cries out for you.
No more excuses,
no more blindfolds
We've got a job to do.
I'm so sorry, we're so sorry
It's time to face the truth.
It's waaay overdue.
You can turn away or you can try to end the pain,
if you can see how it really is.
No time to entertain thoughts with one-blood yes of course
we're off-course as it is.
I'm so sorry,
we're so sorry.
It's time to face the truth.
5.Kids Learn Quick
Chorus：And they still build walls - to keep us in or out - I'm
not sure
I am the sharp tip of the army's claw
Must look the part, must look the law
This uniform's a red rag to bombers
Knowing that my death would bring them honour
So f＊＊k the scholars and their white collars
Your nerves aren't as ragged as this soldier's
It gets colder - feels like everyone's got a chip on their
shoulder oh
What if today's the day my luck leaves me？
Everything is normally uneasy
No reason why it wouldn't be this evening
That's why every day I dream of leaving
Still they come - they queue
Clenched are the hands who are tightening screws
Control how their population moves
This is what the rebels are making us do
Alert and on edge
The tablets go straight to the head - I'm jumpy
They holding the scruff of the neck of the country
So much sun does the blood see
The checkpoint is teeth and guns
The bad apples make me numb with their cries with a request
denied
I hate the f＊＊kin look in their eye - but I don't wanna live
like this
Let you in but not your wife and kids
Who may or may not aspire to by martyrs
But the state will clamp down hard regardless
Pre-emption as self defense and that might be severance for live
rounds at residents
When even their children throw stones
That's why I can't wait to go home
Chorus
Nothing in my pocket but a work permit
Temporary, yes signed today - legit
This kid's making it too hard
The worst part - I clock on in five minutes
Are we at war with them or are we their Mexicans？
When testing them means resting in bed with a bump on your head
for many days
Like my mother says 'we can't afford that anyway'
Which ever way you look at it
The lay of the land is crooked
Holy Lands mad shook with hatred
This road is ancient
And now the gatekeeper is 18
Which he's clearly hating
That doesn't change the fact he's still got me waiting
On land the UN states is mine
You can see how that frustrates the mind of a young man
Young man opposite - holding the gun
Telling him to stop - run - even just for fun
And if it gets too much
That other man runs
No such luck if a rocket struck tonight
We might be stuck for the night
Along with some tired men who might be up for a fight
Ain't seen enough of the light
Seems nothing is right
This kid's tired and it shows
But he's seen me enough times to know
Let me go - by the scruff
Am I Fatah？ Hamas？
Tell me why you'd give a f＊＊k
Either way you won't let me up out of this dust
I see you through a cloud of mistrust
This affirms it - burn shit
Kids around here learn quick
Chorus
6.A Few Things
I got a few things I must do＊
Runnin out of tiems, nothin new
I got a few things I must do
No choice but to push on through
I got a few things i must do
Got no choice but to push on through
Yer I know, been a lil absent
I can see that my tires lost traction
Living in a see saw like fashion
Part of me is compelled to seek the action
What it is is moderated chaos
And well huh, maybe I can tame it with a day off
A fire walk with the hot coals under me
I wonder if the companies will keep me living comfortably
The grey hound runs ragged for the rabbit
And I never even got to think of changin up the habit
Well I laid a blanket, sat back while the world kept going
I waved at him, you can all get gone, and if..
It lasted moment it lasted a week
Only know that I'm back up on my feet
I'd refer it to the corners and the curbs
？？？？？？？？？？
Right now I'm keeping it up for the tunes
I got a few things i must do
Runnin' out of times, nothin new
I got a few things i must do
No choice but to push on through
I got a few things i must do
Got no choice but to push on through
The other day i opened up a box from years ago
Like a pirate who had stumbled upon a treasure trove
You never know how far back the paper trail goes
Cross continental, well its mental as the saying goes
Takes some videos, meet some mates i didn't know that..
I'd drift away from, never had to start from....scratch
Lets say hi to your Perfect match, with the plans you made that
didn't quite hatch
Looking for the magic key that fits this latch
Not just the matter of always striking up a match
And hoping to see fire, catch that wire and swing to what you
desire
Now its been a quiet patch, its back to the grindzone
Chase up some leads, and cross a few timezones
I've been minding my own now I'm tired of the view
And I got a few things that I really must do.
I got a few things I must do
Runnin out of times, nothin new
I got a few things I must do
No choice but to push on through
I got a few things I must do
Got no choice but to push on through
7.Pearl
Don't worry ma'am your child's going to be just fine
Nothing more than a bruise and a scratch - but you know that
happens all the time
Just like he's got to fall to find he can ？ take it in his
stride, he can
Navigate his way through and that's little more than a chink in
the armour
Maybe he can be a mini-Hurricane Carter
Will he withstand yet more tribulations than his own father？
Nowadays hearts are rigid ？ a symptom of the world weary
The more information that the eyes get to see the more they get
bleary
Our children will inherit all this and they'll say it's not fair
What we gotta deal with, don't forget that it's your burden that
we bear
This magnificent constant systematic disrepair
is one trait that every single generation must share
And the oldies can keep their fond memories of the good old days
But, at the core of it, well - maybe nothing's changed
These times have gotten pretty dark but the sky didn't fall in
At least that where we're at now hope a little luck calls him
Oblivious to his resilience let alone ceiling
He knows as well as anyone he is one in 5 billion
For your offspring's health it's worth all those tears
But I really think you can let go of that fear
I remember the good old days, no doubt it was a bigger place
It's a complicated rat race, it was simpler in my day
Yes burdens vary, and it's wise to be wary
Keep your perspective, simple pleasures aren't for sale
Now the future seems a fine thing ？ so bright that it is
blinding
It can seem your destiny's so tight that it is binding
But put these new eyes in, kid, and see the world unwinding
Take the time to see the sights in ？ yo ？ there's nothing to be
frightened of
'Cos night will follow day again and life is still the main
event
Explain it ？ educate ya ？ it's mostly what you make of it
You're a first world resident ？ you're starting way ahead of
them
You could rival Edison or invent a new medicine
Some parts of the past are fashionable ？ irrational
We focus on the contrast ？ less attention to the actual
What is right in front of us ？ it's not like there's no facts at
all
One thing that this generation has never seen - and that's a war
They're clamping down for sure ？ yo ？ but it's still your
stamping ground
Don't let them say it's all be done ？ there's still all that's
not been found
The dance doesn't end just because they play the champion sound
There's bound to be a way to blaze a trail up in this fancy town
Ideas are like hand-me-downs - and the memories get faded
So watch for the nay-sayers ？ and the raining-on-paraders
It may not be brave but it sure is new ？ same they gave us
So dazzle them as a way of repaying the favour
8.My Home
9.Zug Zug
Muttering
Oh, who booked the flights this early, it was you Tim, I don't
know I point the finger at the shoestring？
Cop a red eye all night oh that's not a new thing its all part
of the fun
the lose sleep touring its amusing in retrospect don't forget to
check what state were playing is it daylight savings？
Now the airports in Queensland the sociocom？ oh man were we
wrong？
Yeh were suppose to be on
Oh messed up,
north but not the straight out of Brizzie gig you know the one
yeh right I recall that night that almost got us electrified the
water level flowing round the wires and the leads yet the show
kept going,
that reminds me of the toilets overflowing at the Cain bridge
not enough security they understocked the bar fridge step away
from carnage we rocked it with lights？
Then I stepped to the manager to see how we got paid and he said
zug zug zug zug zug zug (it's a charity event tonight that's
Shelley behind the bar...) zug zug zug zug zug zug (you know the
bar staffs not getting paid n neither r u) ill tell u a story
when your ears ring in the morning, sum parts of my head r
hurting iv been woken up to early and we'll sail off on the same
routine onto another night running on diminishtream？ We gotta
pay the devil or we could lose everything zug zug zug zug zug
zug that's what I mean!
Do you remember the prosthetic leg
man how can I forget she took it off and wanted us to sign it
stop lying!
she was fresh from the UK on a drum and bass odyssey she said
she had another one signed by the prodigy
oh shit that takes me to pyramid you got legless yeh I popped my
knee mist out？
Oh well we couldn't get a chair so I hobbled to the end and got
sum medicine
you mean the warm beer that they sent
When activists acid trips tee pees in Tassie
oh your talking bout the forest festival, yeh exactly we lost
our minds and found them in time to play at roughly 6 in the
morning and that was a Monday.
what about the sunny coast goes all the kids that we saw by the
side of the road motionless with the glow like the village of
the damned up in Coolham maybe they think we are here to school
them (hey!)
Zug zug zug zug zug zug (school you, my mate'll school you when
I...) zug zug zug zug zug zug (...)I'll tell u a story when your
ears ring in the morning sum parts of my head r hurting iv been
woken up to early and well sail off on the same routine onto
another night running on diminishtream？ We gotta pay the devil
or we could lose everything zug zug zug zug zug zug that's what
I mean!
Zug zug zug zug zug zug
Zug zug zug zug zug zug
I don't even have the stomach for the same old
I don't even have the legs for the same old
I don't even have the head for the same old for the same old,
for the same old
I don't even have the bread？ for the same old, for the same old,
for the same old
I'll tell u a story when your ears ring in the morning sum parts
of my head r hurting iv been woken up to early and we'll sail
off on the same routine onto another night running on
diminishtream？ We gotta pay the devil or we could lose
everything zug zug zug zug zug zug that's what I mean!
(Shouts)
Zug zug zug zug zug zug
10.Emergency
The revolution will be industrial!
Well, charged like the Battle of Beersheba and Istabulat,
And didn't you know it's all combustible.
We got born again greens just because its tax deductable,
I'm optimistic but the dots need to be joined,
And now you lift a finger in response but just to point.
That's the quickest way to disappoint, Maybe you missed the
point,
This is way bigger than the list have joined,
We can spruik credentials. No matter how inconsequential.
We treat it like essential. I could sacrifice a non-essential,
Call myself environmental!
Anything outside of this is accidental.
(New Orleans) Yasi!
Slogans are their mantra,
We can't look to government and industry for answers,
They only got a golden hand shake and a plan to abandon the ship
way before we deal with the cancer.
This is an emergency!
This is an emergency!
This is an emergency!
Calmly, you told me you had a plan.
Even Arnie in the 90's had a car that ran electric,
They held back the tech. shit! Now its gotten hectic,
They can't deflect it, Not like its unexpected,
Aussie kids dying at the tyrants directive.
In the dust of the cradle of civilisation,
The middle east was once well vegetated,
Now, check out Australia, a fragile equation,
Even the Anglican Church says that a terrorist invasion is not
the real issue,
If your waiting for an end to floods and drought; here's a
tissue.
The Nats will dismiss you and pray for a solution.
Shame, there is no neighbour to blame for the pollution,
At least there is absolution and carbon credits,
It begins and ends at home if we let it.
A letter to your MP, sign the petition,
We're waiting on you man, to make the hard decisions.
This is an emergency!
This is an emergency!
This is an emergency!
Calmly, you told me you had a plan.
It was the dumbest thing we could have known,
We take and take 'til there was no more,
Justify the human breed. We are blinded by our wants and needs.
So the seas will swirl, disease be rife, the soil became dust
and dust become life as we know it.
And you denied it, And yet you told me you had a plan,
And you told me you had a plan,
This is an emergency! And you told me you had a plan.
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. And you told me you had a plan.
This is an emergency!
This is an emergency!
This is an emergency!
And you told me you had a plan.
This is an emergency!
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
This is an emergency!
This is an emergency!
And you told me you had a plan.
You told me!
11.Toorali
12.Black ＆ Blue
Ooohh, what did you mean when you said that I,
Oo-ooaahh I could be, be anyone？ (x3)
I don't wanna go today,
I don't care for the punishment your teaching me
your methods are not reaching me
ill disappear
this place is gone for me (x3)
if you say it enough times
ill start to believe it
that I don't wanna learn and that,
you don't wanna learn either
the reasons for my silence
you say I'm a problem because I'm defiant
but I'm not lying that you're not trying
if I wasn't the class clown I might be crying
I can see clear that the systems dying
but I haven't learnt the words yet to define it
but yes so fine ill step in line
and write I'm a distraction 500 times
people know that my minds the real weapon
cant see past my staunch expression
(I don't wanna go today,
I don't care for the punishment your teaching me
your methods are not reaching me
ill disappear
this place is gone for me
Ooohh, what did you mean when you said that I,
Oo-ooaahh I could be, be anyone？
This place is wrong for me,
am I the only one？
This place is dark for me,
something has gone astray
I shout out loud but no one hears me)
the be all and end all
well that's what they'll tell you
the cracks so wide weren't that many fell through
you don't need the school to sell you
but it'll be propped up by the all boys club
get a bit of big business love
the uniform doesn't need to be cut
it doesn't matter who your dad goes to the gym with
or the person that your mum gets with the face lift
all of the private tuition won't help the one that won't listen
no one can buy the rights to wisdom
you retain control over the ignition
(I don't wanna go today,
I don't care for the punishment your teaching me
your methods are not reaching me
ill disappear
this place is gone for me
Ooohh, what did you mean when you said that I,
Oo-ooaahh I could be, be anyone？
This place is wrong for me,
am I the only one？
This place is dark for me,
something has gone astray
I shout out loud but no one hears me)
13.When You Escape (Music Vs Fashion)
From very early on
i was absorbed
i was outraged
by the injustice of the day
what I'd read of to that day
It Conflicted with everything
I had been brought to believe
and my school didn't teach none of it
So underneath we used to wonder
if this was messed up, mixed up
give the lad a pen
while he's still a boy
Watch what he makes of it
Can he make an ace of it
before recreation and rap
what anyone and everyone
rap (chuck？) was a king
but you jumping again
and waiting for that time to come back
this territory's untapped
or at least that's what it seems
when to cops swarm
Celebrated for a God Com
Maybe we already long gone
just don't let any of it
interfere with escapism and a door to...
Christ no not even as the ship takes on water
This is how we view the world
art is an imitation of life
Well throw away the air brush
I want to know what it looks like
Now I've scratched my head
I've chewed my pen
(？？) in something else to say
the lyrics make you nervous
but you like the music anyway
So I'll stick to the hard stuff
and you can keep the throw away
The prefabricated pop stars
so light that they could blow away
There's too many (？？)
for the things that they believe in
so what's the point of talking
If you say things and don't mean 'em
i refuse to accept it
if you bring the same old reason
that no it doesn't effect me
well yes it does directly
and my music's a reflection
not meant to be a lecture
it's a sonic insurrection
in the face of disaffection
And I've kept the fingers inky
And the mic was never dusty
And i bust a gut on Friday night
to make the punters trust me
And what is it exactly
that you're wanting me to write about
sing baby baby with a crazy
haircut and a tiny pout
I'd prefer to hide out
and contemplate my passions
I'm talking about music
and you're talking about fashion
Man, half of them are actors
and they rise from the same pattern
pretending they're all accidents
that are just waiting to happen
And the tiny hands are clapping
'cause that's their demographic
They went straight for the money, man
what about the magic？
Yo, I'm not so tragic that i think
this music is our savior
there's no way that the bastards
will be changing my behavior
At least i gave you something
you can get your teeth into
some real nourishment, man
some real soul food
14.The Next Movement
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