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WHILE AUS BURNS

by Dr Sure's Unusual Practice

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1.
BLOOD MUNNY 03:00
Blood money Coal mining Blood money Burn Country Blood money Bought election Blood money Burn Country A pack a frothing lunatics Digging up the dirt Filling up their pockets Pillaging the earth They decimate the targets They desecrate the land They pay off the legislators They've all got bloody hands Blood money Blood money Coal mining Blood money Burn Country Blood money Bought election Blood money Burn Country A pack of frothing lunatics Ignoring all the science Ignoring all the cries for help You're on a tropical island Plenty of innovation We could transform the globe But you’re debts are to the fossils And you reap what you sow Blood money Blood money Coal mining Bought elections Burn Country Blood money Bought election Burn country Blood money
2.
Half of the country is a blazing inferno Climate deniers complicit in the crisis Climate deniers would be funny if they were not Climate deniers in control of the Earth We know it’s money, buys their ignorance the incinerated wildlife is happenstance volunteer firefighters do a rain dance While the ‘servies chasin surplus hold back finance I got 2020 vision 2020 vision I got 2020 vision 2020 vision The land as dry as it’s ever been They say the worst of it remains to be seen They say the climate is changing more rapidly They say we’ve gotta change with it, cease the greed The curtains dropped and the people see We’re living in a manufactured scene We are living in a capitalist dream We are living in a cruel reality I got 2020 vision 2020 vision I got 2020 vision 2020 mission gotta sow the seed gotta drain the sea gotta save the bee gotta pull the weed gotta take the lead gotta sew the seam gotta make a scene gotta cease the greed not one for small talk, but I surrender The time is now, we need to talk about the weather The time is now, it feels like it’s now or never The time is now, we need to work it out together
3.
You can’t drink money That’s what you’re chasing You kept on sellin off The Murray-Darling basin Country's in drought Exacerbated by Water mismanagement In the Murray-Darling basin We see the fruit Of their failure Rivers dry, Temps high The Murray-Darling basin Barnaby! You had the money Where’s all the water? Barny! You had the money Where’s all the water? 60,000 years 230 to break it Indigenous displacement on The Murray-Darling basin The systems crook We need to change it We can’t survive without The Murray-Darling Dead land, dead water of The Murray-Darling Dead man, dead walking on The Murray-Darling Dead land, dead water of The Murray-Darling Dead man, dead walking on The Murray-Darling basin Drip drip drip drip Hey Barny! You had the money Where’s all the water? Barny! Oi! You had the money Where’s all the water?
4.
1 million acres, maybe more The blackened peak to the blood red shore Mallacoota down to Kosciusko From Central Queensland to Frogs Hollow 2 million acres, and counting The fire season only just beginnin Firefighters man the mop The pollies grab a photo op 3 million acres, burnin still A government no better than a paper mill A flame-stoking, kindling service Trading natural life for a budget surplus 4 million acres, of habitat It’s not just human life in body bags Fears for entire species we’ll never see again Fears of half a billion creatures dead 5 million acre ecocide The systems running on borrowed time Coulda listened to the scientists or the First Nations They’d tell ya that the fire don’t discriminate 6 million acres, can we go back from there? 7 million acres, and don’t you shake my hand 8 million acres, stolen land 9 million acres, when’s it time to talk about that? Or the climate We can no longer be quiet 10 million acres 10 million acres 10 million acres

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Between December 27 '19 and January 7 '20 I drove from my home town in Central Qld, Darumbal country, to my new home in Naarm, Wurundjeri country - about 3500km's down the East Coast of so-called Australia during the peak of the Black Summer Bushfires. The damage I witnessed has stayed with me, burned into my vision. I got to Melbourne with a fire in my belly and this EP spilled out. ‘While Aus Burns’ was initially going to be a follow up to the 'Scomo Goes To Hawaii' EP I put out on Christmas eve. One part written from the perspective of a leader on a tropical island who abandons a country in crisis, the other from a powerless pleb witnessing the full impact of the crisis - a crisis exacerbated by a succession of similarly corrupt self-serving leaders, refusing to take action on climate change, propping up dead industries, hoarding all the wealth for an increasingly smaller plutocratic society whilst shifting the blame onto the impotent masses. Scomo goes to Hawaii while Aus burns.

As the crises piled up on 2020 I shelved these tracks, I found them hard to revisit, but with Scott Morrison's recent announcement of a gas-led recovery out of Covid the fire in my belly returned and it felt necessary to add these songs to the canon - A reminder of where fossil fuels have got us so far. These pig-headed, pork-barrelled, narcissistic white men - so ideologically opposed to renewable energy sources, scientific facts, Indigenous knowledge, empathy/equality/equity - are leading us into the inferno. We can no longer ignore the effects of human greed, patriarchy, colonisation and global resource mismanagement.

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released October 30, 2020

Dr Sure - Voice, Guitar, Bass, Synthesizer, Drum kit, Drum Machine, Trumpet / Recording, Mixing, Mastering

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