My Own Eyes

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Since I was just a little boy, I’ve 
been wondering why
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This great old culture we should 
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be helping to heal is so often 
pushed aside
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So many children taken away, so much
 abuse and rape
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When will it be high priority to 
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educate and make some real change?
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I’ve seen it in communities, so 
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many that it’s hard to believe
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Elders speaking wisdom, far beyond
 what they choose to teach in 
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history
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And young hearts just drinking it 
away, understanding why their 
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culture was so shamed
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Waiting for a reason, what was 
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taken off still hasn’t been replaced


[Chorus]
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My own eyes...
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I saw it with my own eyes
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I did, I did (yeah, I did)
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That’s why I know this is true 
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(yeah, it’s true)


[Verse 2]
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I’ve seen it down in sacred Tassie
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Where they’re cutting all those big 
old trees
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Forty-four football fields a day 
is what they clear and ain’t that 
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hard to believe?
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But all for the economy, raping 
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country that our children won’t see
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And even Peter Garrett is lying 
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down when we thought that he might 
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be the key


[Chorus]
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Yeah, well, my own eyes...
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I saw it with my own eyes
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I did, I did (yeah, I did)
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That’s why I know this is true 
              D      A D
(yeah, it's true)


[Verse 3]
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I’ve seen it up in Nhulunbuy, 
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bringing alcohol to sacred soil
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A place still thriving with 
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language and culture by now should
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 just fucken’ be preserved
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People climbing up on Uluru, behind
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 those fences are the people who 
know
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While Qantas is still flying to 
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Ayers Rock, despite years and 
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years of truth


[Chorus]
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Yeah, well, my own eyes...
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I saw it with my own eyes
Bm            G
I did, I did (yeah, I did)
             D            A  
That’s why I know this is true 
              D      A D A
(yeah, it's true)


[Solo]

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[Verse 4]
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And I’ve seen it in the 
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Kimberley, part of the key to human 
history
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See there’s rock art as old as the 
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great ice age, still there for 
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the world to see
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Demolish it for industry. We’ll 
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create so many jobs you see
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In a country so wealthy, still 
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burning coal for electricity


[Chrus]
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Yeah, well, my own eyes...
                 A
I saw it with my own eyes
Bm            G
I did, I did (yeah, I did)
             D            A  
That’s why I know this is true 
              D      A D
(yeah, it's true)


[Verse 5]
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Same old things we always hear
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Lies to fill the pockets of the rich
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No respect for culture, the 
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animals, the environment
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Our future or just the air we 
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breathe
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Mmmmmmmm aaaaaaaa nananaa nananaaa
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 oooooo aaaaaaaa


[Chorus]
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Yeah, our own eyes...
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We’ve seen this with our own eyes
    Bm                G
For years we did, for centuries we 
did
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That’s why we know this is true
                   D
Yeah, well, my own eyes...
                 A
I saw it with my own eyes
Bm            G
I did, I did (yeah, I did)
             D            A  
That’s why I know this is true 
              D
(yeah, it's true)