Mallee

It's a race to the bottom

So stick your heads in the sand

Hear the wind kiss the surface of the river

Set fire to our sins

Washed up on the Fatal Shore

Dashed upon the rocks

Soaked in gin and holy wine

And riddled with the pox

Watch the cheeks take the kettle

Watch the blood stain the sand

There was a massacre on the mudflat

And the squatters moved in

Oh yeah

Growling like an animal

Oh yeah

Down there with the dogs

Oh yeah

Fucking like an animal

Oh yeah

Send the boys to die on foreign soil

Then co-opt their legacy

To sell more beer at the football

And piss on their memory

Tear the pages from the books of history

Settle in for the six o'clock rot

Then turn a blind eye for a century

And walk it off

Oh yeah

Growling like an animal

Oh yeah

Down there with the dogs

Oh yeah

Fucking like an animal

Oh yeah

Down there with the hogs

Oh yeah

Growling like an animal

Oh yeah

Down there with the dogs

Oh yeah

Fucking like an animal

Oh yeah

Down there with the hogs

Oh yeah

Growling like an animal

Oh yeah

Down there with the dogs

Oh yeah

Fucking like an animal

Oh yeah

Hoo ha!

Weighed down by ball and chain

Weakened by disease

I've been raised like a mongrel

I ain't got no pedigree

The politicians peddle

The news that builds the pyre

Got me nailed to the cross

As the flames grow higher

Stand on sacred ground

Cursing at the sun

Leering at the ancient land

The ending has begun

Crawling through the dirt

Pulling down the trees

Poisoning the waterhole

You call it young and free

Don't pay!

Growling like an animal

Growling like an animal

Growling like an animal