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How Would You Be?

from Frontier by DAVE HOUSTON

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A song about 3 Indigenous stories of deaths in custody.

lyrics

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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from Frontier, released November 28, 2020
Dave Houston & Christian Pyle

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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. ... more

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