See The Last Kinection (thanks 2 e)
Sitting in her room / She looks at the sunlight /
She tries to write a tune / All about her life /
People tried to put her down / Don’t want her to get up off the ground /
But she’ll get there soon / Soon she’ll get there /
When are we gonna get there? / Are we there yet? / Are we there yet? / When are we gonna get there? / Are we there yet / are we there yet /
They probably don’t wanna know how long / It’s gonna take to bring them home/
Or close the gap, or react / To the fact that I put this in a song /
Statistics say, that I won’t make / The predicted day of life expectancy /
Compared to the average Aussie that grew up next door to me /
Where do we start at? Where is the heart at? /
Pump this in the park to give the dogs something to bark at /
Evil will prevail when good people are just not doing nothing /
So when I spit on this beat, I believe I’m doing something /
Using my heart through the hardest parts as my navigation /
Using my art, if I start losing all my concentration / A lot of us are debating about the destination /
The rest of us are just waiting and waiting and waiting /
When are we gonna get there? / Are we there yet? / Are we there yet? / When are we gonna get there? / Are we there yet / are we there yet /
Now how we gonna get there, we don’t even have boats /
And how we gonna get there when we’re not winning votes /
We will never get there while the pollys speak their spokes /
Garden party circus clowns wooing kids with their jokes /
Another death in custody to a suicide fatality / This is how it’s supposed to be, in a capitalist society / People on the top and people on the bottom /
And people in the middle who don’t wanna know what happened /
While the poor breaks down to broke, that’s how the rich get richer /
I seen a fulla swap a slab for a million dollar picture / Seems like every society needs poverty, minorities /
The government majority are welfare work employees /
Was a sun burnt country now a fat drunk county / Never been initiated, shit faced at a party /
Never lived on the mission, never made it to court /
And I never went to prison cause I never got caught /
People are we there yet / Time to change / Time to understand / No more shame / No more government grants /
Words
Mission: a Christian institution where Aboriginal people were put to live
Initiation: a ritual to mark passage from childhood to adulthood
Death in custody: death while with the police, in prison
Bring them home: stolen generations, policy to reunite families
Close the gap: up to 20 years less life expectancy, twice the rate of infant mortality, higher rates of preventable diseases: heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes
