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Erased From The Page
03:15
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Hunted people
Poisoned damper
New infections and they’re spreading faster
Forgotten language
Abandoned culture
Fractured nations
Forever after
No mention in our history books
Erased from the page
White history has all been staged
Stolen land
Slaughtered clans
Also forgot to mention the stolen generations
‘History is written by the victors’ is a phrase often used to justify why there is a lopsided account of what transpired in the past. Nowhere is this more apparent than the lack of an indigenous perspective in the teachings of Australia’s history. The history I was taught at school neglected to mention the murder, enslavement, kidnapping, poisoning, infecting, dispossession and attempted obliteration of the Aboriginal people, their culture and their language. Coming to terms with what happened in the past needs to be ingrained in all facets of Australian society to validate the pain it’s caused and the systematic disadvantage it has created.
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Pink Triangles
02:00
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What was
A symbol of oppression utilised for segregation
A badge of shame worn by those who’d been defamed
This symbolism has now been reclaimed
Hear them calling, hear them calling
Calling out for recognition
Heed their warnings, heed their warnings
Reminding you of their persecution
Hear them calling, hear them calling
Calling out for recognition
Downward pointing pink triangles
Reminding you of the past mistakes
They’re calling out
Can hear them shout
You can’t keep us down.
The symbolism of the pink triangle originated during the Holocaust in the Nazi concentration camps. Within the concentration camps those suspected and arrested for being homosexual were identified by a downward pointing pink triangle sewn onto their uniforms. Those with pink triangles were considered lower in the social hierarchy than the Jewish who wore the yellow Star of David and were persecuted by not only the guards but also other prisoners. This symbolism has since been reclaimed by the LGBTQIA+ community and is now worn as a badge of honour and an ever present reminder of just how low humanity can go.
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Day Zero
02:17
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Putting profit before people
Town’s existence left in limbo
No clouds forming out the window
We’re all waiting for day zero
Endless days there filled with sorrow
Rivers sure won’t flow tomorrow
Dry outlook from the bureau
We’re all waiting for day zero
When will it rain
Never again
Hopes washed down the drain
A lack of rain is now no longer the sole cause of drought. Greed is as much to blame. I find it inconceivable that a government is able to sell off river flow to farms for irrigation purposes leaving those downstream who are reliant on nature for their water supply, high and dry. What seemed like a good idea during a high rainfall year has turned out to be a total disaster during the past decade of drought, showing how little long-term thought goes into short term financial gains and how governments put in power to act in the best interest of the people they represent, only look after themselves.
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Outnumbered
02:14
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Like a handbrake on progressive action
The generation that became a faction
Over bearing regressive thinking
Anchored past we're slowly sinking
Can we ever move on?
The influence is strong
Like a barrier to the winds of change
These backward traditions will not wane
Conservative and blinkered vision
Selfishness has arisen
When will we move on from here
Can we ever move on?
The post WWII baby boom, whilst strongly encouraged to rebuild the population at the time, has turned out to be an absolute disaster. Never before has one generation held so much influence over social progression. We are stuck in a slow-motion tug of war whereby younger generations are outnumbered in their calls for change, while older generations remain steadfastly resistant to change.
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Improved access, kept distracted, just forget to use your brain
Cancer causes, new fad diets, round and round and round again
No moral progress, just mental regress, helps create a knowledge drain
Climate sceptics, new age Klansmen ramping up their hate campaigns
It’s true…
Ignorance plague in the information age
We watch ignorance rage in this information age
Viral process, popularity contests endless quest for fame
Learning nothing, amassing contacts but improved our selfie game
Click bait headlines, conspiracy hotlines never ending fact-less claims
Vested interests, spreading falsehoods, creating division is the aim
At no point in history has humanity had more access to information than with the advent of the internet and yet at no point in history has humanity probably ever been so ignorant. Exhibit 1 is a resurgence in people believing the earth is flat because they saw a video on social media. We really are the failed race.
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The Sixth Extinction
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Past the point of climate correction
Opinions bought of no direction
Way too late for debate and discussion
In the midst of the Sixth Extinction
Were slow, so slow to change
The sixth will be man-made
Approval sought by political donation
Greed subdues all calls for action
Too busy denying facts for fiction
In the midst of the sixth extinction
We're past the point
We're leaving it too late
We're past the point
We're tempting our own fate
Over the 4.5-billion-year lifespan of the Earth, there have been five major extinction events. While our government and the Murdoch media continue to discredit and downplay climate change is even occurring, a large proportion of the world’s scientists believe we are in fact in the middle of the sixth extinction. With estimations that by 2050 one third of Earth’s plant and animal species will be extinct, it’s hard not to disagree. The only difference between this and other extinction events is that this will be the first man-made one. This song was inspired by Elizabeth Kolbert’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name published way back in 2014 and yet we’re still not listening.
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life lair regret records Melbourne, Australia
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