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Walking on Your Land

from Boom Town by Steel City Sue

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I live on the land of the Awabakal and Worimi people.

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LIVING ON YOUR LAND - Lyrics

We’re not the first to taste those oysters from the rocks
slim pickin’s now anyway
And you wouldn’t touch those ones now growing on the docks
It’s just another day of our decay

Round here we never talk about it
Open up that old can of worms
Lives dispossessed
And songs that we never learned

And even if we understood
did we ever try to make it good?
Go back, back track, look at our fathers’ deeds

While the ground beneath our feet still holds the story
of the culture we were too hidebound to see

And now I’m walking on your land
I’m living on your land
and the signs and the seasons and the signals I still
barely understand….

Everything I’ve ever cared about
could never be so profound as
the worlds within the worlds
that you have lost

The incredible athenaeum
just wasted in a daylight fire
and now we don’t know
what we don’t know

While survivors of the war still hold the story
of this country we’re still too hidebound to see

And now I’m walking on your land
I’m living on your land
and the signs and the seasons and the signals I still
barely understand….

There’s nowhere else for me to go
Five generations
this is home and still
it’s not so easy claiming that

Round here I want to talk about it
Open up that old can of worms
Lives dispossessed
and songs that we never learned

credits

from Boom Town, released September 1, 2018
Su Morley - vocals, piano
Mike West - guitar
Katie West - double bass
Colby Earleywine - drums, percussion

Produced by Mike West
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Mike West at The 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor, Lawrence, Kansas

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Steel City Sue Newcastle, Australia

Steel City Sue is a musician based in Newcastle, Australia.

She plays trad fiddle, and follows it around the world to where the tunes are cranking and the dance floor's busy.

She also writes songs - about her life and her town.

Boom Town is her debut album and was recorded with Truckstop Honeymoon in Lawrence Kansas
at Mike West's 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor.
It will be released 1st Sept 2018. ... more

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