Foundation of Hurt

Verse 1

Heavy boots

Treading on the soil where the ancestors slept

You took the talk

Took the tongue right out of my head

Called it a sin

Called it a crime to be who we are

Bleach the skin

Scrub away the history scrub away the scar

Cold steel

Cold heart in a suit with a cross

Counting the gain

Ignoring the cost of a culture we lost

You found it offensive

My voice was a threat

So you built a fence

Lined with a debt you haven't paid yet

Chorus

Stolen generations

Tears in the dirt

Building up a nation

On a foundation of hurt

I see you

I see through the lie

I see you

Underneath the red sky

I see you

Verse 2

Human hunts

Sports for the men with the rifles and rum

Run child

Run till your lungs are scorched and numb

Impregnate

Discard

Hide the shame from the wife back home

Broken families

Left to roam through the scrub all alone

You used the church

Used the steeple to pin us down

Slavery

With a crown and a holy gown

Confide in secrets

Immoral deeds in the dark of the night

You claim the glory

While we fight for the right to the light

Chorus

Stolen generations

Tears in the dirt

Building up a nation

On a foundation of hurt

I see you

I see through the lie

I see you

Underneath the red sky

I see you

Bridge

Treated less than a dog

Less than a man

Less than the sand

Lost in the fog

Lost in the plan

Lost in the land

You bleed it out

You breed it out

But we stay loud

Verse 3

Putrid

Rank with the smell of a century’s rot

Remembered

Every single thing that you thought we forgot

Sovereignty

Never ceded never gone never done

Stand tall

Looking straight at the face of the sun

The chains are rusting

The spirit is rising like heat from the stone

We are the seeds

That you tried to keep from being grown

Understand the crime

Understand the time is coming for truth

Speak it clear

To the elders and the youth

Chorus

Stolen generations

Tears in the dirt

Building up a nation

On a foundation of hurt

I see you

I see through the lie

I see you

Underneath the red sky

I see you

Outro

We still here

We still here

Through the blood and the fear

We still here

My tongue is alive

My spirit survives

We still here