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Song title: Xavier Rudd - My Own Eyes (Song For Australia)

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Since I was just a little boy, Iâ€™ve been wondering why
This great old culture we should be helping to heal is so often pushed aside
So many children taken away, So much abuse and rape
When will it be high priority and make some real change
Iâ€™ve seen it in communities that itâ€™s so many hard to believe
Now we speak of wisdom, from beyond what we choose to teach in history
Young hearts just drinking it away, Understanding why the culture was so shit
Waiting for a reason, what was taken off hasnâ€™t been replaced

Chorus-
My Own Eyes
I saw this with my own eyes
Did I did, yes I did, thatâ€™s why I know this is true

Seen it in the human values, cutting on those big old trees
Forty-four football fields a day is what they clear and ainâ€™t hard to believe
All for the economy, raping country that our children wonâ€™t see
Even Peter Garett is lying down where we thought that he might be the key

Chorus x2

Seen it in a northern boy, bringing alcohol to sacred sons
A place still thriving with language and culture by now should just fucking be preserved
People climbing up on Oolaroo, Behind those fences are the people who know
And Quantas is still flying to Ayers Rock despite years and years of truth

Chorus

Seen it and I canâ€™t believe, part of the key to human history
See thereâ€™s rock hard is old as the great our state for the world to see
Demolish it for industry, it will create so many judge you see
In a country so wealthy still burning coal for electricity

Chorus

Same old things you always hear, lies to fill the pockets of the rich
No respect for culture, the environment, the animals; our future or just the air we breathe

Chorus