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Civilised

from Demonstration by Thugs & Terrorists

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lyrics

As you drag your arses through the dirt,
you're wearing plastic shirts
& all the people that you hurt but you don't know.
All your fucking hotels giving
pamphlets to the natives,
giving hairspray to the ugly nomad girls.

You're buying postcards of quaint native blacks
to send to your suburban friends,
while by the river two more children die.
The rusted out car bodies scattered
round a single water tank,
there, but we don't see or seem to care.
And we take no responsibility at all!

Colour photos are exactly that
you'll never feel the loneliness,
won't recognise the anger in their eyes.
Clumsy feet that trample sacred ground,
won't feel the sadness, hear the sounds,
forty-thousand years of life now blown apart.

The fences run through the sand,
around the people & their land,
won't keep away the smell of life's decay.
Red graffiti covers sacred lines,
of countless billions people's lives,
that theatrette’s & slide shows can't regain.

YET YOU CALL YOURSELVES CIVILISED!

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from Demonstration, released January 21, 2014

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Thugs & Terrorists Canberra, Australia

Thugs & Terrorist were a political punk, folk, rock band based in Canberra in the early/mid nineties.

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