Thou Shalt Not Steal

1788, down Sydney Cove The first boat people land And they say Sorry boys, our gain's your loss We're gonna steal your land And if you break our new British law For sure, you're gonna hang We'll work your life like our convicts With a chain on your neck and hand And they told us Woah, Black woman, thou shalt not steal Hey, yeah, Black man, thou shalt not steal We're gonna civilise Your Black, barbaric lives And teach you how to kneel But your history couldn't hide the genocide The opposite always was real Oh, your Jesus said you're supposed to give The oppressed a better deal We say to you Yes, our land thou shalt not steal Woah, yeah, our land you better heal Well, your science and technology (hey!) Can make a nuclear bomb Development has increased its size Three million megatonnes And if you think that's progress I suggest your reasoning is unsound For you should've found out long ago You better keep it in the ground And they told us Woah, Black woman, thou shalt not steal Hey, yeah, Black man, thou shalt not steal We're gonna civilise Your Black, barbaric lives And teach you how to kneel But your history couldn't hide the genocide The opposite always was real Oh, your Jesus said you're supposed to give The oppressed a better deal We say to you Yes, white man, thou shalt not steal Woah, yeah, our land you better heal Well, Job and me and Jesus Sitting underneath that Indooroopilly bridge Watching that blazing sun go down Behind the tall tree mountain ridge The land's our heritage and spirit here The rightful culture's Black And we're sitting here just wondering When we're gonna get that land back And they told us Woah, Black woman, thou shalt not steal Hey, yeah, Black man, thou shalt not steal We're gonna civilise Your Black, barbaric lives And we'll teach ya how to kneel But your history couldn't hide the genocide The opposite always was real Oh, your Jesus said you're supposed to give The oppressed a better deal We say to you Yes, White man, thou shalt not steal Woah, yeah, our land you better heal Well, you talk of conservation Keep the forests pristine green But in two hundred years your materialism Has stripped the forest clean And a racist's a contradiction That's understood by none Well, we see the left hand holds a Bible And the right hand holds a gun And they told us Woah, Black woman, thou shalt not steal Hey, yeah, Black man, thou shalt not steal We're gonna civilise Your Black, barbaric lives And we teach you how to kneel But your history couldn't hide the genocide The opposite always was real Oh, your Jesus said you're supposed to give The oppressed a better deal We say to you Yes, White man, thou shalt not steal Woah, yeah, our land you better heal Woah, yeah, White man, thou shalt not steal Oh yeah, our land you better heal