CONTRAVENE LYRICS

"Common Ground"

Originally by One By One

Oka to Big Mountain, from golf to uranium.
Excuses for cultural rape and brutal dispossession.
Designed to humiliate and crush all thoughts of rebellion.
But the fight back has been going on for half a millennium.

You can be a noble savage of a nation in defeat.
But there's no question of sovereignty, no respect for dignity.
Little Big Horn, will never be forgiven
until the last Indian's heart is buried at Wounded Knee.

A system based on stolen land and stolen slaves.
Take what's yours and call myself rich and you must serve my privilege.
But the victims of this tyranny may find some sort of unity
in fighting for our lives becomes what fat cats most despise - strong.

You can be a noble savage of a nation in defeat.
But there's no question of sovereignty, no respect for dignity.
The pyramid is about to crack.
Straighten our not so broken backs.
Fight the powers that be and fight the common enemy.

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