Unsettled

by The Gin Palace

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Deborah (Rah) Bird ‘Unsettled’ The healing songline to our YES referendum vote for an Indigenous Voice to our Parliament/Commonwealth 💚❤️‍🔥💚 Favorite track: Unsettled.

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'Unsettled', written by Peter Fenton (Crow) and Jim Moginie (Midnight Oil), is a dialogue with this country's troubled past, an unflinching, poetic and honest look at a nation's failings. An essential process required before all Australians can do a healing walk, together, from the Uluru Statement From The Heart to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament and beyond.

Moginie describes the track as "clear eyed, with a warm heart but a brutal sound."

lyrics

Frangipanisummer dress swings in the shade of a treeLittle one puts her feet down in a bucket now its 40 degreesThis is summertimeWaterhole, river gum, shadows getting longer indeedLong tall man in a petrol sniffing paradiseIs waiting for our conscience to breatheIt’s the summertime, in intervention timeThe height of the bushfire season, the low of the Tampa treasonOur settlers, unsettled. Unsettled...Women in a circle, campfire laughingKids running in the red dirt of homeIn roll the military, those tyre marks of historyOut where Namatjira would roam In the summertimeWhat’s at the heart of this fear and insecurityThat we try to cover up in khakiA ghostly hand that dabs at the fabric of connectionThat will surely set us all freeIn the summertime, in intervention timeThe height of the bushfire season, the low of the Tampa treasonOur settlers, unsettled

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released March 31, 2023
Written by Peter Fenton/Jim Moginie

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The Gin Palace Sydney, Australia

Sydney rock band The Gin Palace introduce themselves with the elegant dark rock sound of their debut single 'Burn Your Heart Out', taken from their forthcoming 2023 album The Year Of The Dog.
Musically the song possesses a dark rock grace, the kind of bruised beauty that bands like The Bad Seeds and The Afghan Whigs do so well.
The band includes Peter Fenton of Crow and members of Glide, ... more

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