Xavier Rudd - My Own Eyes (Song For Australia) Lyrics
Since I was just a little boy, I’ve been wondering whyThis great old culture we should be helping to heal is so often pushed asideSo many children taken away, So much abuse and rapeWhen will it be high priority and make some real changeI’ve seen it in communities that it’s so many hard to believeNow we speak of wisdom, from beyond what we choose to teach in historyYoung hearts just drinking it away, Understanding why the culture was so shitWaiting for a reason, what was taken off hasn’t been replacedChorus-My Own EyesI saw this with my own eyesDid I did, yes I did, that’s why I know this is trueSeen it in the human values, cutting on those big old treesForty-four football fields a day is what they clear and ain’t hard to believeAll for the economy, raping country that our children won’t seeEven Peter Garett is lying down where we thought that he might be the keyChorus x2Seen it in a northern boy, bringing alcohol to sacred sonsA place still thriving with language and culture by now should just *****ing be preservedPeople climbing up on Oolaroo, Behind those fences are the people who knowAnd Quantas is still flying to Ayers Rock despite years and years of truthChorusSeen it and I can’t believe, part of the key to human historySee there’s rock hard is old as the great our state for the world to seeDemolish it for industry, it will create so many judge you seeIn a country so wealthy still burning coal for electricityChorusSame old things you always hear, lies to fill the pockets of the richNo respect for culture, the environment, the animals; our future or just the air we breatheChorus
