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Beyond The Pale

from Beyond The Pale by The Kellaways

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The Northern teritory government turned Australian law back a generation by announcing mandatory sentences for Aboriginal offenders. That great Australian expression: "All we want is a fair go" Huh.

The British in Ireland drew one of their infamous lines on the countryside, beyond which no go good Englishmen with half a brain would venture - the Pale. It lives on in the hearts of men (and women).

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BEYOND THE PALE

Going down a lonely road now
Going to the end of the line (beyond the pale)
Opened up a racial window
Looking back to earlier times (beyond the pale)
The drums of mindless hate are beating loud
An ignorance of which the owner’s proud
We love a fair go – my head is bowed (beyond the pale)

Opened up Pandora’s worms here
We will pay for hundreds of years (beyond the pale)
You could call it our blackest moment
Resurrected, archaic fears (beyond the pale)
The condescending private schoolboy smirk
The problem is they just don’t want to work
Give ‘em just a sniff – they go beserk (beyond the pale)

Mandatory jail (for kids and mums, the sick)
Mandatory fail (at school, relationships)
Mandatory live with less (of what we all have)
Mandatory early death (we always take the very best)

Once you go here you can’t turn back
Alabama’s surprisingly near (beyond the pale)
Some had better stay in the outback
While we shed our crocodile tears (beyond the pale)
The patronising fake indignant claim
I’m OK and I’m surely not to blame
The same old excuse – pathetic, lame (beyond the pale)

Mandatory jail (for kids and mums, the sick)
Mandatory fail (at school, relationships)
Mandatory live with less (of what we all have)
Mandatory early death (we always take the very best)

Beyond the pale, beyond the pale, beyond the pale, beyond the pale

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from Beyond The Pale, released December 1, 2002

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