It's time Australia, time for recognition, you see before our dark past we had a black history, now i ain't pointing no fingers or pushing blame i ain't silly but whats happened in the past its time we work together and get our recognition its like this... They would rather compensate us, Than give Us recognition in other words They'd rather buy you out of your tradition Cause when you recognise, That's how your culture survives Many millennia and thousands of tribes Around the fire light corroboree The writings on wall's Its like the truth in the past They would rather us all dead But we survivors Through the spirit of my ancestors Thousands of years from behind us Hear that survivors Through their ignorance and arrogance There miss education divides us Product of environment Before all the grog and the drugs It was dreams that would guide us Now we stuck in violence Prison systems confine us Genocide undercovers The Stolen kids under silence No wonder we tyrant Revolution is now Australia can't stop us We taking back what is ours Genocide it was genocide See the pain in my people's eyes Deny my culture steal my pride But we survived better recognise Genocide it was genocide See the pain in my people's eyes Deny my culture steal my pride But we survived better recognise They wanna breed out the pedigree Close down communities Broadcast the negative And highlight the bigotry They want to whiteout our history With no recollection Just the white man legacy Don't believe me Ask Lang Hancock Yeh thats Gina's farther Had a plan to poison the lot You want to stop the sons and daughters Put some poison in there water Then you wait a generation Then peg out the lot Now that's iron ore pimping Iron ore pimping Blood on their hands from these iron ore victims F%k Barnett the government system Throw a little dollar call it royalty for regions This is black man's land Always has always will be black man land Over seventy thousand years walking this land Then Cook came and when bang Now we living in a... Genocide it was genocide See the pain in my people's eyes Deny my culture steal my pride But we survived better recognise Genocide it was genocide See the pain in my people's eyes Deny my culture steal my pride But we survived better recognise They must have thought they seen aliens When them convicts ships came sailing in Crooks galore Criminal minds hit the shore Guns go bang and them bodies hit the floor Invaded taken rapped killed Slaved chained oppressed still we survivors Hear that we survivors We came from sacred places to racist times Australia its time to recognise were survivors They would rather compensate us Than give us recognition In other words i would rather are you out of your tradition Cause when you recognise Thats how your culture survives Many millenniums and thousands of tribes And thats how it is Australia, all were looking for is a bit of recognition, and that starts with us at home around the dinning table, how we treat our kids the next generation, its bout understanding ones culture and respecting ones feelings and with that we can move forward and has great Australia, we might have had a dark past but best believe we got a bright future!