by Dan Condon, Music reads, Double J
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Paul Kelly doesn't tend to trifle with politics all that often in his music. And you might say that this new single, 'Sleep, Australia, Sleep', isn't a political song.
He wrote the song as a lullaby, but says that its message could serve as a wake up call.
In Kelly's own words, it's "a critique of the widespread attitude amongst humans that we are the most important life form on the planet. I believe we’ve reached a tipping point now where this attitude is doing terrible harm to all life on earth".
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