Black Face

Lyrics

[Intro] A Perth mother has dressed her son up as West Coast Eagles player Nic Naitanui For a school costume day Deciding to paint his skin brown She'd been warned it was a horrible idea But said, "She's glad she grew a set of balls and went through with it" The mother also added that, "There were too many politically correct extremists these days" Her child actually ended up winning the book wee parade [Verse 1] Our Black skin is not a costume for you to assume Damn right, I ain't got room to be amused We ain't a muse for your amusеment You were born as hеaven-sent sent half of my kin wasn't born as human So, excuse the nuisance of dealing with our feelings This appealing Black skin comes with glass ceilings So you think you're queening You're really just demeaning The meaning of the being of another human being What's the meaning of all this hate? You think you celebrate But you don't even relate to the state of the Black fate So tell me what's behind your son's black face? White skin, he could never embrace the struggle within See the difference between you're children and Nic Nait' Is they can go to school with they books in back pack Go and win a medal for they skin you paint black Head home take a shower cleanse they skin and that's that But we can never take our black off Parents can never get back they children that was lost I mean stole from their homes You paint your skin Black, but you don't wear it as your own Australia, grow a fucking back bone I ain't beating 'round the bush no more, settle the score You choose to ignore we were here before It's time to wipe the floor clean no ShamWow Got me wondering how in 2016 we got white people speaking on behalf of we Your black entertainment, I know you like Goodes better as a footy player Uh, and Eddie Betts be a monkey at best As long as the seventy others behave themselves, you love them just like the rest Give it a rest, it's been weighing on my chest Why white pieces always move first in chess? Why is black the appropriate funeral dress? And my country don't care 'bout people in distress [Chorus] Black is not costume, Black is not a face I'm an educated Blak man and I don't know my place Black is not costume, Black is not a face I'm an educated Blak man, uh [Verse 2] My best friend had a baby, got me thinking I don't want her to grow up in a world that needs convincing That degrading race is somehow entertaining The fact we need persuading or that or the fact we keep debating We got grown people acting dumb Parents, please, parent your young And to your daughters and sons Black face is not a costume, find another one We be DJ Khaled, we need another one Aliyah, age ain't nothing but a number Race ain't nothing but a colour So even though your dad's white, he's still my brother No matter what they say, I always love ya I ain't spread hate, I spread love for one another See that same hate for race is that same hate to tell Aliyah to stay in her place But fuck that, baby girl, do your thing This ain't PC, this is easy, please believe me This ain't PC, this is the return of the Mac The return of Blak, The Empire Strikes Back 'Cause we in here going back to back Wouldn't be Australia without another face painted black, uh But now it's back to that Back to telling Blak's like how to act Racially abuse us, tell us how to react I'm yelling, "Fuck that, you need to check your facts" Fight for the right of whites to wear black face But don't fight for the rights of those with Black face Man it's such a disgrace We need to learn our history, need to learn our place [Chorus] 'Cause black is not costume, black is not a face I'm an educated Blak man and I don't know my place Black is not costume, Black is not a face I'm an educated Blak man and I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't know my place, ayy, ayy I don't know my place