Testo Locked Up

Why're the kids locked up?
Take this silence and blow it up
Why do 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 understaffed
Positions need fillin' and they need another guard
Who's lightin' their path when they're frightened in the dark?
They got spit hoods, understood that it's for their own good
How you expect them to act when they get told they're no good?
Stand 'em in line and you make 'em go last (they go last)
False starts, everyone runs past
And you tell 'em catch up while they're chokin' on dust (chokin' on dust)
Blow it up, throw it up
Carve our name on the frame so they know it's us
I tell 'em where I'm at and they can follow me
Remember that they're kids not a campaign policy
Isolate the individual Seperate from their family, visits and intervals (that's [?])
Maximum punishment, rehab is minimal
Treat 'em like that you're just makin' 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, why oh why
Why oh why, oh why'd
She go so young
Why oh why, why oh why
Why oh why, oh why'd
She get locked up
At all

Not gonna disappear (we still here)
Scream in your other ear (you will hear)
Not gonna 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)

Locked up
Locked down
No justice
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. The cold hard fact remains an indictment on all of us.

[?] no peace