Lyrics Locked Up - Spinifex Gum, Marliya, Briggs

Locked Up

Why’re the kids locked up?
Take this silence and blow it up
Why they go so young?
Falling sisters and burning sons
Yeh, yeah
They put our kids in the system
Findings, reports and royal commissions (Yo)
Numbers, statistics when they’re making decisions (Uh)
Assess the risks and build another prison (Woo)
Got a license for a car they under staffed
Positions need filling and they need another guard
Who is lighting their path when they’re
Frightened in the dark
They got spit hoods understood that it’s for their own good
And you expect them to act
When they get told they’re no good
Stand them in line and you make them go last (They go last)
False starts everyone runs past
And you tell them catch up while they’re choking on dust (Chokin' on dust)
Blow it up, throw it up
Carve our name on the frame so they know it’s us
I’ll tell them where I’m at and they can follow me
Remember that they’re kids not a campaign policy
Isolate the individual
Separated from their families, visits and intervals (That's)
Maximum punishment, rehab is minimal
Treat them like that you just make them better criminals
Why’re the kids locked up?
Take this silence and blow it up
Why do they go so young?
Falling sisters and burning sons
Why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
Oh why, oh why’d she go so young?
Why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why
Oh why, oh why’d she get locked up at all?
Not going disappear (We still here)
Scream in your other ear (You will hear)
Not going to disappear (We still here)
Just 'cause they’ve been locked up (Let's go)
This cut’s a cut on us (You feel that?)
This shame is all of us (You feel that?)
This justice isn’t just (No peace)
This count’s not adding up (Let's go)
Woah (Locked up)
Woah oh oh oh oh (Locked down)
Woah oh oh oh oh oh oh (No justice!)
Woah oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh, oh oh (No peace!)
«The vicious cycle remains the same.
Indigenous people are more likely to come
to the attention of the police.
Indigenous people who come to the attention of
the police are more likely to be arrested and charged.
Indigenous people who
are charged are more likely to go to court.
Indigenous people who appear in
court are more likely to go to jail.
Indigenous youth now comprise over
fifty-percent of juveniles in detention.
The statistics speak for themselves
and the cold hard fact remains an indictment on all of us.»
No, no peace