Dumb Things - triple j Like A Version

Welcome strangers to the show
 I'm the one who should be lying low
 Saw the knives out, turned my back
 Heard the train coming, stayed right on that track
 In the middle, in the middle
 In the middle of a dream
 I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings
 I've done all the dumb things
 Yeah, them dumb things
 This goin' out to all my brothers down there in Don Dale
 Dealin' with that disaster that them guards are there and not jail
 Thinking we gettin' our welfare, huh?
 Thinking we gettin' our healthcare, huh?
 Think about if it was your son
 Now think about sending some help there, yeah
 What's dumber than that mate?
 What's dumber than dressing up blackface?
 What's dumber than doing it knowing it
 Hurts and don't even work to make that change
 Let's go
 In the middle, in the middle
 In the middle of a dream
 I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings
 I've done all the dumb things
 (We got)
 We got islands, for the ones who seekin' asylum
 We got silence, for the ones who died in confinement
 If you're complacent, to the words of a racist
 Don't you dare complain when, that's what leading your nation
 Send in the clowns, they're blackfacing
 They're locking up couples
 They're locking up brothers, but they ain't leavin' the station
 The date's changin'
 In the middle, in the middle
 In the middle of a dream
 I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings
 I've done all the dumb things
 Ladies and gentleman, on the keys and drums
 Mr John, Mr Paul Bartlett AKA SixFour
 On the guitar my brother Dan Sultan
 And to my right, Mr Paul Kelly
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 Yeah, them dumb things
 Lumped in, looking for peace, but won't find it
 They holdin' us back from closing the gap by keeping them close minded
 See, no surprises there, hearing both of them sirens blare
 Them coppers where I'm from are kind of
 Fair, if you kinda fair
 What's a royal commission to the ones who live on a mission
 To the ones who's killed by the system
 By the ones that's meant to assist 'em
 At the hands of policemen, who's gonna police them?
 They killin' us Koori's
 They got it on footage, they need to release them
 In the middle, in the middle
 In the middle of a dream
 I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings
 I've done all the dumb things
 Mr John Bartlett
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 My brother Dan Sultan
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 Mr Paul Kelly
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 In the middle, in the middle
 In the middle of a dream
 I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings
 I've done all the dumb things
 Yeah I'm melting wax to fix my wings
 Threw my hat into the ring
 I thought that I just had to sing
 I've done all the dumb things