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White Skin Black Heart Lyrics
What are you gonna do now,
now that you started
What are you gonna do now, now that it's done
The words got out there they're floating around
and coming right back down
Are you going to leave us lying here, dealing
with the consequences of a bad sound
What are you gonna do now, now that it's spoken
Words have a habit of not fading away
Our memory's clear conscience gets opened like a wound
If you can't conceive of better lines and better
times then let silence bury you
In the end you will be condemned
You see the boston strangler on the freedom
road you think the suffragettes got sunk a long
long time ago, you spewed it out your spite was
insecure it was like bile from the heights on the
toilet floor, you were a nazi drunk ... you had
the rednecks roaring for blood and then they
wanted more, your life was so small you couldn't
get enough you made a start ... you didn't
have to start ... white skin black heart white skin black heart
now that you started
What are you gonna do now, now that it's done
The words got out there they're floating around
and coming right back down
Are you going to leave us lying here, dealing
with the consequences of a bad sound
Words have a habit of not fading away
Our memory's clear conscience gets opened like a wound
If you can't conceive of better lines and better
times then let silence bury you
In the end you will be condemned
road you think the suffragettes got sunk a long
long time ago, you spewed it out your spite was
insecure it was like bile from the heights on the
toilet floor, you were a nazi drunk ... you had
the rednecks roaring for blood and then they
wanted more, your life was so small you couldn't
get enough you made a start ... you didn't
have to start ... white skin black heart white skin black heart
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A song about racist Australia, mainly people like Pauline Hanson, who is depicted in the film clip in all Midnight Oil-esque subtlety. All about white Australia policies and the like which show it doesn't matter what colour your skin is if your heart is a shriveled black mess.
Midnight oil- the original self loathing social justice warriors and their ilk have been ultimately counter productive to the plight of indigenous Australians over the last 30 years. Raging political correctness, identity politics and virtue signalling along with billions of government funding has ingrained a modern day colonialism which has has produced little results and infrained a corrupt and unproductive indigenous industry that dosent do much for those really disadvantaged. These SJW activists like Midnight Oil, fail to admit that the number one reason for incarceration of indigenous Australians is violent assaults and acts intended to cause injury. And the primary victims are other indigenous Australians.