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Lyrics - Act Locally, Think Globally by Surreal MC and The Awesomes
"This song acts as an education and a call to arms, encouraging listeners to understand the unsustainable reality of power relations whilst promoting a sense of hope in our capacity to change the world if we come together."
Big business loves the dough, the government conducts the flow
Prostituting our Mother, Earth getting fucked for dough
Every time I'm rapping I;'m attacking and their minds explode
'Cause my flows are more toxic than hydraulic fracturing
They slaughter animals and all the flora and fauna
Emissions cause a change in the climate till it's more of a sauna
Hotter than the flammable water that they pour for your daughters and sons
Without a thought for their poor little tummies and the smog in their lungs
It's a war they keep going as long as the dollars will come
They spend millions on propaganda to keep the populace dumb
They say they want to keep the economy strong
But for every one that profits there's a hundred struggling and wondering what's going on
All for corporations bought the nation for donation, causing mortification from ocean waters to the core of the nation
You know I won't stop till we all know the facts and we take Australia back before it's Gasland
They come here today to rape our Mother, they take more than just profits away
It's time to Lock The Gate!
Time to act locally and think globally
We can bring the world back from the brink hopefully
Only way to make it definite is ifv we all start rapine' it
People power, V for vendetta, yeah, that's what the message is
I represent the populace from the forest to the metropolis,
Raising consciousness, they respond to ominous, monotonous economic monster that's on top of us -
Crappy capitalism, yeah, we've had enough of this
If coal seam gas reps request access to your premises just tell 'em to get back, off the property
Tell them you're locking the gate, yeah, think twice about legal advice before signing on the dotted line
Documents they try to con us
We didn't inherit this planet from our parents, we borrowed it from our kids
So you know we won't stop till they all know the facts and we take Australia back before it's Gasland
They come here today to rape our Mother, they take more than just profits away
It's time to Lock The Gate!
Big business loves the dough, the government conducts the flow
Prostituting our Mother, Earth getting fucked for dough
It's not what you know though, it's what you can prove
'They got the dollars though' - yeah, but we got the truth
'They got the white collars though' - yeah, but we got the youth, we got the future on our side
'They got the news, they got the courts, they got the parliaments and the police too'
That's true, but we got the streets, justice and the people on our side - don't be feeble
It's about time to stand up for what we believe in and see it through
Me and you can overcome evil, but what we say will be ignored
What's important is what we do
You know it won't stop till we all know the facts and we take Australia back before it's Gasland
My people won't stop till we all know the facts and we take Australia back before it's Gasland
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