Those+old+invader+lies

A E F#m D x 3 / G D E C x 3 E F#m D / D E C D OR Em D C Em D G Em D G C D C x 2 You drove along the creek bed You drove right through the camp You said you'd been too pissed to know/care whose skull it was you'd turned to jam x2

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There's a fire in your rib cage But there's no light behind your eyes you can't hear you're just repeating all those old invader lies

You're the poison in the flour youre the smallpox in the sheets youre the loaded hand that clears the land And burns the bodies so they can't be seen

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You're the suit who came to steal the babies And tried to make them act just like you You're the hymn that screams inside the dreams Like a soul that's getting torn in two

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You're the eyes that only see the shadows That are cast by your own mind The little coloured clues your masters choose Are the only ones you ever find

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You think that truth is made in heaven And that heaven is the truth you know All you can see is the truth you need To justify the the hate you sow

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Well if we were made in heaven And if there was peace on Earth We could dance and play as children may And no-one would need be hurt

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And if we could see the light

To save the souls

Theres control dressed up as mercy

/ out all through the night

for the money and their parakeets?/polished seats/ soft shod feet/ in the better streets

youre the

you turned up at the court house you saw the jury turn a smile flitted cross your face and you knew then you wouldn't burn

Theres the one about the coloured mountain and how the white folks sit on top

There's the one about the white mans burden there's the one about ungratefulness

theres the one that says land can be taken and then not in some way die there's the one that says to kill is power and that somehow the killer thrives

theres the one that says the past's best forgotten

bought and sold

But Theres something you're not sayin Theres Something you don't seem to see what if it was someone you knew That you'd smashed into eternity

Some parasite deep in your mind

some madness like disgust some echo from the ones you know who

Some truth that you can't face Some fear that anything you do Will not save you from disgrace

when you're face-to-face

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