Lyrics

(songs in alphabetical order below)

A Message to You Albo

Stop your messing around. On climate change
Time to think of our future. And give us hope
Use the sun and the wind. Ah ah climate action now
Ah – aah – ah Albo. A message to you Albo (x3)

A Message To You ScoMo [not a current song]

A Message To You ScoMo
A Message To You ScoMo

Stop your fooling around [or: Stop them fracking around]
Better think of our future
Keep that gas in the ground
Or feel our fury right now

[Can change ScoMo to Albo.]

Beds are Burning [not a current song]

The time has come
To take a stand
It’s for the Earth
It’s for our land

The time has come
A fact’s a fact
The heat is on
No turning back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning

Business as Usual [Not a Brisbane song, perhaps used in other chapters?]

[to the tune of Macarena]

Business as usual is leading to diaster
Business as usual is leading to diaster
Business as usual is leading to diaster
Take Climate Action!

Business as usual is leading to diaster
Business as usual is leading to diaster
Business as usual is leading to diaster
Join the Rebellion!

Down by the Riverside

Oh where’s your humanity?
Free free the refugees (x 3)
Oh where’s your humanity?
Free free the refugees (x 2)

Chorus: Oh give them permanency (x 2)
Permanent visas now
Oh give them permanency (x 2)
Permanent visas now

Feel Like Funkin’ It Up

I’ll wear whatever I like, wear whatever I like (x4)

Gimme Hope

Well Can-ber-ra they run the country
From Darwin down to Adelaide
They make mining companies happy but
They don’t care about our kids at all

They got a system called capitalism
It keeps the people in a subjection
But maybe pressure will make Canberra think
Climate crisis is for everyone

Oh
Gimme hope Canberra, hope Canberra
Gimme hope Canberra ‘fore the morning come
Gimme hope Canberra, hope Canberra
Hope before the morning come

Killing in the Name

Call and response: No nuke subs. No more war!
Lead in: Killing in the name of!
Build up: Now you do what they told ya! (Now you’re under control)
Final: They justify the subs they buy, by scaring the masses with all their lies!

Shake It Off

Hey hey hey,
Just think, while you’ve been getting dirty money
from the liars and the fossil fuel cheats of the world,
You could’ve been getting down
to this
climate
beat.

Our PM’s got a new climate plan
But I’m like “oh my god it’s the same old shit”.
With the new mines over there
changing climate everywhere,
Won’t you come on over Albo,
we can shake, shake, shake.
Coal – Shake it off
Gas – Shake it off
Oil – Shake it off
Corruption – Shake it off.

St Thomas

Bah da bah – Move beyond coal (x2)
Fossil fuel – it’s not cool
Who needs coal when / we’ve got the sun

Wade in the Water

Chorus:
Migrants aren’t the problem x 3
Capitalism is to blame

Verses:
Greedy property investors x 3
Driving up the price of housing

Unemployment and poverty x 3
Capitalism is to blame

We Shall Not Be Moved

We shall not, we shall not be moved
We shall not, we shall not be moved
Just like a tree that’s standing by the water side
We shall not be moved

When the Saints

Don’t touch my arse, without consent x2
‘cos my body is my own
Don’t touch my arse without consent

Yes means yes, and no means no x2
However we dress, wherever we go
Yes means yes, and no means no.

Which side are you on?

Chorus: Which side are you on? (x2)
Which side are you on now? Which side are you on?

Storms surge and fires burn
But you don’t care at all
‘Cause fossil fuels are paying you
Does it weigh on you at all? (x3)

Chorus: Which side are you on? (x2)
Which side are you on now? Which side are you on?

Dirty coal has raised you up
But we can make you fall
You’ve picked a war with our planet earth
Does it weigh on you at all? (x3)

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