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Since I was just a little boy, I?ve been wondering why
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This great old culture we should be helping to heal is so often pushed aside
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So many children taken away, so much abuse and rape
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When will it be high priority to educate and make some real change?
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I?ve seen it in communities, so many that it?s hard to believe
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Elders speaking wisdom, far beyond what they choose to teach in history
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And young hearts just drinking it away, understanding why their culture was so shamed
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Waiting for a reason, what was taken off still hasn?t been replaced
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My own eyes...
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I saw it with my own eyes
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I did, I did (yeah, I did)
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That?s why I know this is true (yeah, it?s true)
verse 2
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I?ve seen it down in sacred Tassie
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Where they?re cutting all those big old trees
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Forty-four football fields a day is what they clear and ain?t that hard to believe?
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But all for the economy, raping country that our children won?t see
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And even Peter Garrett is lying down when we thought that he might be the key
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Yeah, well, my own eyes...
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I saw it with my own eyes
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I did, I did (yeah, I did)
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That?s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)
verse 3
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I?ve seen it up in Nhulunbuy, bringing alcohol to sacred soil
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A place still thriving with language and culture by now should just fucken? be preserved
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People climbing up on Uluru, behind those fences are the people who know
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While Qantas is still flying to Ayers Rock, despite years and years of truth
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Yeah, well, my own eyes...
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I saw it with my own eyes
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I did, I did (yeah, I did)
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That?s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)
Solo
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Heyyy Ohhh
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Heyyy Ohhh
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verse 4
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And I?ve seen it in the Kimberley, part of the key to human history
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See there?s rock art as old as the great ice age, still there for the world to see
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Demolish it for industry. We?ll create so many jobs you see
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In a country so wealthy, still burning coal for electricity
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Yeah, well, my own eyes...
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I saw it with my own eyes
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I did, I did (yeah, I did)
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That?s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)
Verse 5
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Same old things we always hear
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Lies to fill the pockets of the rich
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No respect for culture, the animals, the environment
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Our future or just the air we breathe
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Mmmmmmmm aaaaaaaa nananaa nananaaa oooooo aaaaaaaa
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Yeah, our own eyes...
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We?ve seen this with our own eyes
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For years we did, for centuries we did
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That?s why we know this is true
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Yeah, well, my own eyes...
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I saw it with my own eyes
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I did, I did (yeah, I did)
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That?s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)