![]() The whole reason for the SG was basically to try and 'breed out' aboriginality, teaching Indigenous people white ways, and intermarrying with white people. The second option, while not clear, is more interesting thematically, and seems to resonante with RPF. ![]() I can't really see the first option making sense because the reference seems too positive - If you're an Aboriginal person in the context of the Stolen Generation, why would you associate the eyes of a European almost wistfully with the wide, expansive sky? The person being spoken to in the first verse is Aboriginal. The person being spoken to in the first verse is European.Ģ. If we imagine the song is some sort of metaphor for Aboriginal Australians and the Stolen Generation (I think while you could make some sort of parallel to American Indians and all indigenous peoples, the use in Rabbit Proof Fence and the image of the train evokes the specific Stolen Generation), then it makes the most sense that the narrator is an Aboriginal person of some sort.ġ. I'm not entirely sure who this is supposed to be talking about. ![]() Most of this song is fairly straightforward, but the line that still has me fairly stumped is "those two blue eyes light your face in sky blue."
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