Name: Truth Speak
Duration: P00H04M03S
Description: Truth Speak represents Pete's support for Australia's first people in their quest for truth telling of injustices since colonisation/invasion

Truth Speak

by Pete Byfield

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Truth Speak represents Pete's support for Australia's first people in their quest for truth telling of injustices since colonisation/invasion

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Truth speak is here to stay
It's out in the open and it won't go away
You can sweep it under the carpet
But it'll rise with the dust again some day

They came to these shores with a flag and a gun
and passed judgment on indigenous man
They renamed the beaches, renamed the rivers
and claimed all the fertile land

Then they laid down the law
Laid down their law
Laid down the law on aboriginal land

They stared down the guns, their babes in arms
killed stock to keep the hunger away
Run down by troopers and hung from the trees
it used to be the land of the free

and their hunger it burned
Their lives had been spurned
Dreamtime fading away

When they laid down their law
Laid down their law
Laid down their law on aboriginal land

Truth speak is here to stay
it's out in the open and it won't go away
You can sweep it under the carpet
But it'll rise with the dust again today

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released April 2, 2021
Pete Byfield - lyrics, all vocals, acoustic guitar
Sean Lillico - percussion, keys, bass guitar
Kevin McDonald - electric guitar
David Rastrick - didgeridoo
Produced by Pete Byfield & Sean Lillico
Engineered and mixed by Sean Lillico

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