1. |
How Would You Be?
04:09
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Gather round people there’s blood been shed
Another black man is shot down dead
They got him bad those boys in blue
A remote place called Yuendumu
Hide away in your police station
Turn of the lights, plan for litigation
Ya couldn’t use ya mouth, handcuffs or Tasers
But in a court of law the judge cuts you favours
How would you be?
How would you be ?
On a train ride home a woman is asleep
She’s trouble you know. Just a black, black sheep
She’s drunk and arrested and locked in a cell
She shouldn’t have been there the inquest tells
Same day same crime a white woman’s pissed
Driven home, no slap on the wrist
Cops says that they got no racist beliefs
Unconscious bias is families’ grief
How would you be?
How would you be ?
A black man in jail is total fair game
Held down by guards, 9 minutes of shame
I can’t breath he says a dozen times
We both know he crossed the little white line
plain to see, black lives don’t matter
Cops climbing up that corporate ladder
Protests go on for years and years
For friends and families, it’s pools of tears.
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2. |
Cowboy
03:10
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I wish I could turn that judger off
I’d sleep all night and dream all day
And if I could turn that judger off
I’d send him away on a beach holiday
But it just seems to be the way I’m wired today
Yeah it just seems to be the way I’m wired today
C’mon Cowboy let’s ride through this night
Let's head to the hills where we out of sight
Yeah C’mon Cowboy let’s ride through this night
Let's head to the hills where we out of sight
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3. |
While I'm Waiting
05:07
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When you’re inside your head
And there’s a world of dread
And you can’t help but touch the dead
When that black dog comes
There’s blood upon his teeth and he wants some fun
And you wanna move but you cannot run.
Pull my heart near
Wipe away these tears
Hold all my fears
While I’m waiting here
When you see that door
But you’re down for the count your on the floor
You wish, you wish for more.
When your life goes grey
You’re stuck in the corner unable to say
Words and talking’s so hard today
Pull my heart near
Wipe away these tears
Hold all my fears
While I’m waiting here
When your chips are down
Your face is stretch into a frown
No seeds planted in the ground
When the circle of thoughts they scream
This unwanted thinking like a horror dream
And you try your best not to be seen.
Pull my heart near
Wipe away these tears
Hold all my fears
While I’m waiting here
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4. |
His name Was Martin
04:16
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Ned Kelly was shot and hung
Captain Moonlight died young
Ben Hall he didn’t last
And Mad Dog Morgan faded fast
But his name was Martin. Martin Cash.
Yeah his name was Martin. Martin Cash
Martin was a smooth talking bushranger man
He travelled all over Van Demon’s Land
They couldn’t hold him down or keep him in jail.
This is his story. What a tale
His name was Martin. Cash
Yeah his name was Martin. Cash
Shot a man in a crime of passion
Paid the price, now on convict ration
Took up arms for his liberty
Said ‘Fuck you Governor I’ll be free.’
His name was Martin. Cash
Yeah his name was Martin. Cash
7 Long years in Norfolk Island
Heaviest chains and the heaviest irons
Saved a guard from a being killed
Walk free Martin. You won the deal
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5. |
Get Up
02:08
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Well I’ve been waiting here
Waiting for so long
Well I’ve been holding here
Barely Holding on
Well I’ve been crying here
Crying for so long
And I’ve been dying here
Dying for a song
2nd verse different but on the track. Have a listen
Chorus.
Wake up my heart
2nd time
Get up my heart
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6. |
Our History
05:24
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I heard it said, don’t go outside ‘cause it’s dark.
There’s a cruel wind blowing and this land is lonely
It’s empty and it’s stark
Walk this land x 2
Ghost gums run with blood, their trunks are painted red
On this land first peoples hunted ‘til their dead.
Walk this land x 2
In this place I’m alone, stars and moon out there
I can’t help but imagine, the hell it was down here
I will not shut my mouth, when I hear these stories
I will not shut my mouth. I don’t celebrate the glory
Watch it all denied, our history
While another man hides, our history
While another media lies, our history
While another story fails, our history
Steal the land and take the land, breaking all those laws
Sacred sites, a sacred world, they will take it all
Families of the past, haunt then night and day
Frontier wars left bodies, rotting in decay
Belzebub, Lucifer, devil of despair
When the white man shot the black man, without a single care
Em C Em C
I heard it said, don’t go outside ‘cause it’s dark.
There’s a cruel wind blowing and this land is lonely
It’s empty and it’s stark
Walk this land x 2
Ghost gums run with blood, their trunks are painted red
On this land first peoples hunted ‘til their dead.
Walk this land x 2
In this place I’m alone, stars and moon out there
I can’t help but imagine, the hell it was down here
Chorus Em C D Em C D
I will not shut my mouth, when I hear these stories
I will not shut my mouth. I don’t celebrate the glory
Watch it all denied, our history
While another man hides, our history
Em Am
While another media lies, our history
While another story fails, our history Riff x 4
Steal the land and take the land, breaking all those laws
Sacred sites, a sacred world, they will take it all
Walk this land x 2
Em Cowboy chord
Families of the past, haunt then night and day
Frontier wars left bodies, rotting in decay
Belzebub, Lucifer, devil of despair
When the white man shot the black man, without a single care
Chorus Walk this land
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7. |
Belanglo Woods
05:38
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Do you like hunting?
Do you like the Thrill?
Do you like Hunting ?
Do you like to kill?
Come with me to the Bangalow Woods
Maybe I can’t but maybe I could
In the heart of the Belanglo Woods
It’s hard to love but it’s easy
Do you like hunting?
Do you like the Thrill?
Do you like Hunting ?
Do you like to kill?
Come with me to the Belanglo Woods
Maybe I can’t but maybe I could
In the heart of the Bangalow Woods
It’s hard to love but it’s easy, so easy to kill.
More lyrics in song. work 'em out. x
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8. |
Bunjil's Country
03:59
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2 steps forward 4 steps back
Walk along their land
Their land where they were attacked.
Do you know where they lived
Do you know where they played
Do you know where they ate
Do you know where they fell
Spirits watching, Bungil
Bunjil’s country here
Bunjil’s country here
He will rise up and take these spirits home
2 steps forward 4 steps back
Walk along their land
Their land where they were attacked.
Bodies in the drawers bodies in the shelves
Melbourne Museum
Spirits waiting, Bunjil’s waiting
Bunjil’s country here
Bunjil’s country here
Bunjil’s country here
He will rise up and take his family home
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9. |
I'll Be Gone
04:39
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Lot’s of people talking about themselves
Lot’s of people dreaming about being somebody else
Lot’s of people hearing the same old news
Lot’s of people posting their petty, petty views
Don't lecture me you know I’m not stupid,
Don't tell me things that I know.
Don't blow your own bugle when the battle is over
When you never set foot on the shore
‘Cause I’ll be gone x 2
Don’t say those things you can’t deliver
A bunch of empty words
Don’t you dare think your life is a misery
Or somehow mine is worse
Don't blame the world for not being in sunshine
Or curse and mutter to your self
Don’t you clip my wings or hold me back
I got that whole damn sky to myself
Don’t push me down instead of lift me up
When the blues are hitting me hard
Don’t tell me that I’m gonna crash and burn
Or you think that I am ill
Don't you reel me in like your fishing for big game
Sailor never sailed the sea
Don’t judge my book, if you won’t take a look
I’m just being me
I’m just being free.
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DAVE HOUSTON Melbourne, Australia
Renowned theatrical impresario Dave Houston has released two solo albums, and an EP and a bunch of band
albums.
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Houston's music is mellowed, rocky & psyche-folk treatment of themes dear to his heart. It swerves like an old Holden across the desert, careering from the angst of the traveling songwriter to the troubles of our dear heaving continent.
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