3 - Youngblood Lyrics

(Yarrapay 'Morning Star' traditional songline Rirratjingu Clan)

We share young blood on this old land
But why do young hearts sit in old hands?
And they listening close to the things that we say
So, who's leading the way if we push till it breaks?
Got white Australia packed in
Came to see me and my black kin
And they're not raising the age
To fill up a cage
And all that I'm seeing is black kids
Uluṟu had a heartbeat
And them Nowra streets had a heartbeat
So I rolled up on the day after and I put treaty on repeat
It's black x when you see me
When you see Barkaa when ya see Laroi, see South Summit
See Thelma Plum see Becca Hatch and you see 3

You push and you push and I'm pulling away
Pulling away from you
I give and I give and I give and you take, give and you take
Youngblood
Say you want me
Say you want me
Out of your life
And I'm just a dead man walking tonight
Coz you need it, yeah, you need it
All of the time
Yeah, ooh ooh ooh

Youngblood
Say you want me
Say you want me
Out of your life
Coz I'm just a dead man walking tonight
Coz you need it, yeah, you need it
All of the time
Yeah, ooh ooh ooh

I bit my tongue and bit it again
Allergic to that too, pretend
Poppy tall, they tulip it
Wake up and smell the roses
Love you and leave you
The pattern complete
Price that you pay don't come with receipt
U bite the apple I gotta sleep
Starving for knowledge bit nothing to eat
Lack of attention be dead in a week
Road to riches don't save u a seat
You show them love then label a fraud
How the hell my people gone eat
Matrichs all my sisters is sweet
Warriors, all my brothers is me
400 deaths still nothing to say
400 deaths still nothing to say Haaa

Youngblood
Say you want me
Say you want me
Out of your life
And I'm just a dead man walking tonight
Coz you need it, yeah, you need it
All of the time
Yeah, ooh ooh ooh

Youngblood
Say you want me
Say you want me
Out of your life
Coz I'm just a dead man walking tonight
Coz you need it, yeah, you need it
All of the time
Yeah, ooh ooh ooh

Push and you push and I'm pulling away
Pulling away from you
I give and I give and I give and you take, give and you take
Running around and I'm running away
Running away from you, mmmm from you

Youngblood
Say you want me
Say you want me
Back in your life
Coz I'm just a dead man walking tonight
Coz you need it, yeah, you need it
All of the time
Yeah, ooh ooh ooh

(Yarrapay 'Morning Star' traditional songline Rirratjingu Clan)