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Fighting Back (feat. Bec Rosher)

from Trapped in Sydney (2015) by Adrian Incarnate

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On a stolen land I roam
Where the fallen stand alone
And a fool commands the throne
while futility turns man to stone
In a middle class home I was idealistic
Propaganda had us optimistic
But I learned it was unrealistic
to expect most to be altruistic

So I cruise sunlit streets in the arvo
Killin' eardrums with subs in the cargo
Thinkin' right "Yo fuck these whites.
"Apathy keeps them warm in the nights."
It's like I woke to a different place
The masters broke all the world with waste
They might think crimes in time will erase
But the wounds still hide in the eyes and the face

The Western man got us all displaced
See what he done to our native race
See how his ranks invade their turf
Look at how his banks enslaved our Earth
Yeah you don't wanna part with your purse
But a life in Sydney is part of the curse
I know it's hypocritical 'cause I'm born of the race
that I'm saying is probably the worst

But I can't forgive my forefathers
for the pain that they imposed
I can't condemn the resentment of those they oppressed
when they keep on throwin' low blows
There's a time and place to be rising up
and I think maybe it nears
They blame protesters for the violence
but they're the ones who be full of hate and fears

Rosher
Deep down we carry love and we keep it alive
No matter what they do to us, you know we're gonna survive
I know the day draws near when they will step aside
Until then we're gonna fight 'till the day that we die

How can onus lie with the weak?
The elites have far more reach
If nothing is done should the dispossessed
use force to remove the peak?
'Cause as much as I wanna transcend
animal instincts like anger and rage
Sometimes nothing else gonna be useful
to aid the escape of creatures trapped in a cage

The betrayed ain't never gonna trust your law
to protect dark skins or the poor
It was made to oppress at the core
and the cops I abhor; they ain't do what they swore
See them hurt black kids in the streets
Then wonder why crime repeats
You demand they observe your rules
but you say they're fools; your system's cruel

Americans use subversive means
to push nations down to their knees
Put 'em in debt so they're forced to sell their dreams
That's how they make that cream
Then we call them terrorists when they resist
in the only ways they honestly can
We forget that violence is an effect
not the cause of poverty's hand

It's like an Apartheid still exists
in the bush of Australia
Politicians fake their image
as much as Iggy Azalea
As if they give a damn fuck
about the fact they persist in failing ya
Gonna keep on selling us booze
while they seek to ban drug paraphernalia

That shit don't seem to be reason
'Till you realise what they believe in
is capital through deceivin'
Enslaved by the lie of freedom
There's enough resources around the world
to be feedin' all who be needin'
But evermore that demon of greed in the leading's
leavin' the heathens bleedin'

Adrian Incarnate 2014

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from Trapped in Sydney (2015), released January 4, 2015
created by Adrian Incarnate
hook performed by Bec Rosher

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