Survivor

It's time Australia, time for recognition

You see, before our dark past we had a black history

Now I ain't pointing no fingers or pushing blame I ain't silly

But what's happened in the past, it's time for recognition and work together

It's like this

They'd rather compensate us than give us recognition

In other words they'd rather buy you out of your tradition

'Cause when you recognise

That's how your culture survives

Many millennia and thousands of tribes

Around the fire light corroboree

The writings on wall's

It's like the truth in the past

They would rather us all dead

But we survivors

Through the spirit of my ancestors

Thousands of years from behind us

Hear that survivors

Through their ignorance and arrogance

Their miseducation divides us

Product of environment

Before all the grog and the drugs

It was dreams that would guide us

Now we stuck in violence, prison systems confine us

Genocide undercovers, the Stolen kids under silence

No wonder we tyrant, revolution is now

Australia can't stop us, we taking back what is ours

Genocide, it was genocide

See the pain in my people's eyes

Steal my culture, deny my pride

But we survived, better recognise

Genocide, it was genocide

See the pain in my people's eyes

Steal my culture, deny my pride

But we survived, better recognise

They wanna breed out the pedigree

Close down communities

Broadcast the negative and highlight the bigotry

Yeah yeah, they want to whiteout our history

With no recollection, just a white man's legacy

Don't believe me, ask Lang Hancock

Yeh thats Gina's farther, had a plan to poison the lot

You want to stop the sons and daughters, put some poison in their water

Then you wait a generation then peg out the lot

Now that's iron ore pimping

Iron ore pimping

Blood on their hands from these iron ore victims

Fuck Barnett, the government systems

Throw a little dollar call it royalty for regions

Yo yo, this is black man's land

Always has always will be black man land

Over seventy thousand years walking this land

Then Cook came and when bang

Now we living in a...

Genocide, it was genocide

See the pain in my people's eyes

Steal my culture, deny my pride

But we survived, better recognise

Genocide, it was genocide

See the pain in my people's eyes

Steal my culture, deny my pride

But we survived, better recognise

They must have thought they seen aliens

When them convicts ships came sailing in

Crooks galore

Criminal minds hit the shore

Guns go bang and them bodies hit the floor

Invaded taken rapped killed

Slaved chained oppressed, still we survivors

Yeah, hear that? We're survivors

Uh, check it

We came from sacred places to racist times

Australia, it's time to recognise we're survivors

Yeah, hear that? We're survivors

They'd rather compensate us than give us recognition

In other words I'd rather buy you out of your tradition

'Cause when you recognise

That's how your culture survives

Many millenniums and thousands of tribes

And that's how it is, Australia

All were looking for is a bit of recognition

And that's by working together as one

And acknowledging the past history and moving forward

That starts at home with us around the dinning table, how we treat our kids, the next generation

It's all about understanding ones culture

And being respectful of ones feelings

And together with that we can move forward and have a positive Australia

We might have had a dark history, but best believe we've got a bright future