Pitch black, on the attack / - redact – kept hidden in a / sinister flicker of imminently unforgiving / infractions made fact by the searing of light / - hear the blow of the whistle / - break silence, disquiet, spot / light on atrocities dimly lit move / quick through the shadows as a matter of interest / - blocking the passage of rites / - dark night for the watchdogs / - pour light on the corners of / cabinet adamant they operating for the freedom of / press, keen to see how they treating the people like / Assange leaking evil foreseeable in the Middle East / even then, breaching the black is / perilous, you may never be coming back / evidence, trapped in a penalty / carefully unwrapped by journalists hearing murmurs their / purpose is to attract the light source likened to / flies, the political purpose is to react / - statutes, damage control / - cloak, dagger in hand, list of demands no / hint at when they will advance, pitch black like / molasses – just to smother their plans /

Hear that? AFP
See that? Plain to see
Feel that? Fear is free so ignite / the dark as a matter of need
Hear that? Sound of silence
See that? Beacon of light and
Feel that? Burning bright watch / out for the cloud of black smoke that rises

No you’re right (know your right)
Write to know (right to know)
No you’re right (know your right)
Write to know (right to know)
(whispered: I know, you know, we know)

Enter the void / - once in it, go get it, not / finished till we bear witness to the risks presented and / shared with the citizens before they diminish / - ready or not / - hide and seek, find and take files from the / privacy so we can see – give it back to the / people, let the anonymous speak / - chase greed before its erased / - conduct raids like its A-B-C, don’t / - shoot the messenger manoeuvring through the / burden of proof unearthing a kernel of truth from the / dirt permanently infused with every step of the / treacherous endeavour there’s a turn of the screw / - stoke the furnace, engulf the night, burn / bright like a flare cause we know you’ll write / - covert – pen full of might is / better than a militant weapon, yet nothing is / fair in this incredible fight, sights locked on controversial / purposes set it alight / - urgent, ready in earnest / - voice concerns that were heard through the flutter of / curtains with the power of words, uncover the / trouble in paradise for whatever it’s worth /

Hear that? ASIO
See that? Let it show
Feel that? Afraid to know in / case the evidence is at the end of a rope
Hear that? Sound of silence
See that? Beacon of light and
Feel that? Burning bright watch / out for the cloud of black smoke that rises

No you’re right (know your right)
Write to know (right to know)
No you’re right (know your right)
Write to know (right to know)
(whispered: I know, you know, we know)