Gather 'round, people, and I’ll tell you a story
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Two hundred years of history that’s falsified
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British invaders that we remember as heroes
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Are you ready to tell the other side?
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We start our story in 1493
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With a piece of paper called the Doctrine of Discovery
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Invoked by Pope Alexander VI
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Without this good Christian, our story don’t exist
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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Captain James Cook, he boarded a fleet
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And he was armed with the Doctrine of Discovery
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The same tactics were used by Columbus, it’s
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How today Australia claims Terra Nullius
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'Cause on that paper, the pope did write
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That you’re only human if you’ve been saved by Christ
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And if there are no Christians in sight
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The land you stumble on becomes your God-given right
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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Is that your law? |
'Cause that’s invasion
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That’s the destruction of five hundred nations
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The genocide of entire populations
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Which planted the seeds for the stolen generation
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And grew into my people’s mass incarceration
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Now we pass trauma through many generations
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The lord can’t discover what already existed
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For two hundred years, my people have resisted
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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The wars continued since Captain James Cook
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And this side of history, you don’t write in your books
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You don’t want the truth and you don’t want to listen
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But how can you stomach Australia’s contradiction?
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'Cause we went to war in 1945
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We were allies against a terrible genocide
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And I know it’s uncomfortable but the irony I see
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Is that you fought for them, but you don’t fight for me
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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We should move on, move on to what?
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I still remember, have you forgot?
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That Vincent Lingiari knew others were rising
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Gurindji inspired us to keep on fighting
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So call it Australia, go on call it what you like
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I just call it how I see it and I see genocide
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Now that you hear me, can you understand?
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There will never be justice on our stolen land
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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This is the story of so called Australia
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But this is the story of so much more
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How power and privilege cannot move my people
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We know where we stand, we stand in our law
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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From little things, big things grow
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Since 1991
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Four hundred and forty-one
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Indigenous Australians
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Have died in custody
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The casualties of a war that never ended
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But we are not yet defeated
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Always was, always will be
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Sovereignty was never ceded |