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Let No​-​one Be Left Behind

by The Same Boat

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1.
You try to tell us it's good for humanity To drag us back to the 19th century Keep it in the ground ​Keep it in the ground You say that turbines are a blight on the eyes While dirty smoke stacks are pollutin' my skies ​Keep it in the ground ​Keep it in the ground If the gas doesn't kill you The dust is gonna fill up your lungs Black cloud on the future Your greed is gonna block out the sun ​Keep it in the ground ​Keep it in the ground
2.
Stop trying to control me Stop telling me what to do You can try to intimidate me all that you like But I'm never gonna be like you Stop searching through my emails Stop tapping my telephone Get your cameras out of my private life Just leave me the hell alone I don't look into your bedroom So stop prying into mine I don't pay no mind to your business And that suits me just fine I ain't no two-faced charlatan like you And committed no serious crimes I'm just trying to survive the best that I can And you're just wasting my time You stick your nose in where it don't belong And you've been grubby hypocrites all along And the fact that you go to such great lengths Is a sign of weakness not strength If you don't want to see it Well no-one's forcing you to watch And if you don't want to hear it Then stop listening so goddamn much You say you don't want to feel it But it seems that you like to touch And what makes you think you can tell me who to love? Who made you the judge?
3.
In the frenzy to extract the fool's black gold The highest bidder wins the day Now a gigantic gash, as barren as their souls Scars the place where our hearts used to lay Yellowbacks and gliders and dugongs disappear As the "patriots" bleed country dry 200 years and an ocean of tears The "dreaming" and the "nightmare" collide At night the children are restless in bed And the sandman is stricken with grief The coat of arms is turned on its head As the clock runs down on the reef Pacha mama unleashes her fearsome temper We're reaping what the powerful have sown Avenging those who dared to offend her Now waves crash into our homes And while she falters and struggles to heal The polar bears die by the week There are those who find profit has much more appeal And have mastered the art of double speak In the corridors of power great deals are done That fatten the pockets of the few And for a mess of pottage they'll sell off the farm Is this really the best we can do?
4.
Billy Brewer 04:56
They broke Billy Brewer's mother's heart in two The day they came and took him away They told her "half-castes" couldn't fit in And it would be better this way They gave him a name, they gave him a god They taught him to feel guilt and shame And if anybody needed a scapegoat It was Billy who would always get blamed He would learn how to steal, he would learn how to cheat He would learn how to finish a fight And he would learn the hard facts of life When the priest came to his room in the night He couldn't remember a day of peace He'd been followed by trouble and strife They said he transgressed society But he'd been transgressed against all his life They chained him when they should have saved him The prison he was in was the colour of his skin Coz he wouldn't live the white man's way Billy couldn't stop the civil war That was raging inside his head A bottle of vodka, a litre of scotch Two injured and another dead The next morning when he woke up He found himself in a prison cell Yesterday he lived in purgatory Today he had gone straight to hell Detective Thompson said "He's going down" Knowing a white jury would never acquit Twenty five years hard labour For a murder that he didn't commit They broke his ribs, they broke his face Eventually his spirit and mind There are none so deaf that refuse to hear Those who refuse to see are so blind They framed him when they should have saved him The prison he was in was the colour of his skin Coz he wouldn't live the white man's way
5.
Hey man, why is the water on fire? Hey man, why are the animals dying? Lock the gates Hey man, what's that terrible smell? Hey man, why does my skin itch like hell? Lock the gates The man in the suit said it would be OK The man in the suit never came out here anyway Lock the gates Hey government man, who tells you what to say? Government man gonna run that company one day Lock the gates
6.
Fight For It 03:34
Beware of those who would seek to divide Because their names are designed to hurt you And hypocrites who deceive and connive Who preach at you their morals and virtues Never tolerate or seek to excuse Those who oppress, who commit the abuse Life is a search for meaning and truth It's a rite of passage for youth You've got to lead the way You want life, you want love You want hope you've gotta fight for it You want freedom, you want justice You want peace you've gotta fight for it Avoid cynics who demoralise They hope to confuse and disarm you And manipulators that hypnotise They only want to use and harm you It's essential that you recognise And pay heed to the warning signs Do understand you need to open your eyes The truth lies between the lies It's always been that way You want life, you want love You want hope you've gotta fight for it You want freedom, you want justice You want peace you've gotta fight for it Surround yourselves with those who accept Cause there are many different from you And treat others with respect They will be there to protect you We all get it wrong every now and then Think twice before you judge or condemn Often enemies turn out to be friends You're who you are because of them The song remains the same You want life, you want love You want hope you've gotta fight for it You want freedom, you want justice You want peace you've gotta fight for it You want respect, you want a future You want the truth you've gotta fight for it You want reason, you want a union You want rights you've gotta fight for it
7.
The fox is in the chicken coup, the crows are in the corn The rat's in the ceiling kicking up a storm The dog's out the back barking up the wrong tree And there's 100,000 Nazis at the bottom of the sea! '64 Studebaker's rusting in the shed Mama's in the kitchen baking up some bread Poppa's on the porch playing spoons on his knee And there's 100,000 Nazis at the bottom of the sea! The singer channels De La Rocha surfing off the stage The lead guitarist thinks he's the next Jimmy Page The bass player's grooving but in the wrong key And there's 100,000 Nazis at the bottom of the sea! The President is in the toilet shooting up smack The PM is dealing with a dose of the clap Lizzie and The Duke are pouring whiskey in their tea And there's 100,000 Nazis at the bottom of the sea! Il Duce's demoralised, the Fuehrer's in a rut The Grand Wizard's in Selma going off his nut Some say that it's enough while others disagree 100,000 Nazis at the bottom of the sea!
8.
Far Below 04:39
Near the ruins of the mansions that slavery built Idle factories sit where workers were exploited to the hilt The rich conducted business with avarice and guile They squandered Mother Nature and lived it up in style Generous in bombast but miserly in deed The prisons overflowed with those who disagreed The ideals delivered so little yet had promised so much So easy to reach out for but so difficult to touch Far below from where bald eagles once soared The sacred scrolls of Liberty soundly sleep Now the sun, it don't shine there no more And the Lady in the harbour softly weeps The message of the scriptures saturated the neighbourhoods From Modesto to Orlando, finely honed in "Hollywood" They thought they were exceptional with providence on their side But the prophets got so frightened they had to run away and hide Priests and Pentecostals started doubting their beliefs Going through the motions and desperate for relief The pious shook their heads and dropped down to their knees As God offloaded his portfolio and invested overseas The tired, poor, huddled masses, homeless and tempest tossed Swelled the ranks of the destitute, demoralised and lost Many had joined the military at incalculable cost At the end of the rainbow, gold had turned to rust With the multitudes distracted by their spectacles and games Captain America split the joint with his ill-gotten gains In the scramble for the lifeboats covenants were ignored They trampled on their peons and threw them overboard They say it's always darkest right before the dawn It's always the most painful before a baby's born It's always the calmest just before the storm It's always the hardest to forgive and carry on But finally the young had unshackled their minds They shook off their illusions and left the past behind With ideas and exuberance they swapped their guns for pens They dismantled the edifice and started again Far below from where bald eagles soar The sacred scrolls of Liberty can be seen Now the sun, it can shine there once more And finally the world can get some peace
9.
We live like cockroaches Because you live like kings You've brutalised us and terrorised us And stolen nearly everything You can try to crush our spirit Try to take away our dignity But in the end you'll only vanquish Your own humanity When you corner me I will strike out at you And we'll both live with our backs against the wall But if you show me compassion I'll show you empathy And we'll be there to catch each other if we fall You can stop the sun from burning Turn day into night You can stop the earth from turning But not my will for life And if you only knew about the Crimes committed in your name So much pain caused by so few You'd surely hang your head in shame When you corner me I will strike out at you And we'll both live with our backs against the wall But if you show me compassion I'll show you empathy And we'll be there to catch each other if we fall Are we just a computer game The other on your TV screen No soul, no feeling, no home, no name No-one there to hear our scream Have we not endured hardship? Have we not suffered enough? Do we not deserve compassion? Has the world run out of love?
10.
My Darling Fatima, I write you this letter I know it won't reach you, I have no paper or pen But I must tell you how much I miss you So I'll inscribe it on the walls of the inside of my head I thought I could be strong and that my faith would guide me And anything they did to me I could endure But year after year of unrelenting isolation There's little left deep down for me to be sure The constant screaming in the cages beside me Haunts my dreams and wakes me up in the night Every day more and more I feel God has abandoned me And gradually I'm succumbing and losing my will to fight As I stare into the abyss and the darkness that's befallen me I go back to the landscapes and the mountains It's all I have left now that my eyes are failing me I see only the pale shapes of these khaki-coloured demons Look me in the eye you cowards and savages Before you pull that bag over my head once again The burning hot sand is nothing compared To the searing imprint of your depravity on my brain And I feel like a bird in a cage Like a dead man has danced on my grave And home feels like ten billion light years away From the Hotel Guantanamo Bay Those eyes that taunt me through the peephole And these bastard chains bite deep into my soul And these feelings of revenge spiral out of control Cause they can't replace the years of my life that they stole And I feel like I'm slipping away And I pray to God every day Someday soon I'll be let out of this place The Hotel Guantanamo Bay

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The world's in crisis.
War, persecution, poverty, economic collapse and environmental degradation are forcing people to find a better life.
Since the dawn of humanity, it's always been this way.

We have the knowledge and ability to change things for the better.
"The Same Boat" is dedicated to unity, solidarity and justice.
We only have one earth and everything is interconnected.
We are all boat people.

"The Same Boat" play an energetic, uplifting and inspiring mix
that's sure to have an affect on both feet and mind!

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released March 8, 2016

All songs are original compositions ℗2015 The Same Boat
All songs recorded at Wax Cylinders Studio, Australia 2015
Produced by Lewington - Allen
Mastered by Joe Carra at Crystal Mastering, Melbourne, Australia

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