KA Rees #46 - Filthy Hide remixed

Filthy Hide remixed

With lyrics from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds & words from the Mayor of Glen Innes, Carol Sparks

I never lied

When I called Scott Morrison son of coal,

Or that other minister up in Queensland who makes money

digging holes. I never lied when I rang

the hotline to report a government of fire bugs

fire thugs slack jaws slick with fuel load,

while we wait for policy they double down

say no policy the fault of grass, trees, scattered leaves

surely better cut for matchsticks to stick into boxes

for green voters, lost lost to the fires.

Politicians unafraid to melt our wealth deliver us ashes

but they say it’s the latte sipping brigade—

though the same numbers of people in the city

and country worry about climate change

and they outweigh the naysayers. But like a moth

that enters the flame there’s only the one way—

to go down with wood and wire

A truth for this truth. We weren’t the ones who lied.