Bruce Cockburn - Stolen Land lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - Stolen Land lyrics]
From Tierra del Fuego to Ungava Bay
The history of betrayal continues to today
The spirit of Almighty Voice
The ghost of Anna Mae
Call like thunder from the mountains
You can hear them say
It's a stolen land stolen land
Apartheid in Arizona, slaughter in Brazil
If bullets don't get good PR
There's other ways to kill
Kidnap all the children
Put 'em in a foreign system
Bring 'em up in no man's land
Where no one really wants them
It's a stolen land stolen land
It's a stolen land but it's all we've got
It's a stolen land and there's no going back
It's a stolen land and we'll never forget
It's a stolen land and we're not through yet
In my mind I catch a picture
Big black raven in the sky
Looking at the ocean sail
Reflected in black eye
Sail as white as heroin
White like weathered bones
Rum and guns and smallpox
Gonna change the face of home
In this stolen land stolen land
If you're like me you'd like to
Think we've learned from our mistakes
Enough to know we can't play God
With others' lives at stake
So now we've all discovered
The world wasn't only made for whites
What step are you gonna take
To try and set things right
In this stolen land? Stolen land
It's a stolen land but it's all we've got
It's a stolen land and there's no going back
It's a stolen land and we'll never forget
It's a stolen land and we're not through yet
Oh, it's a stolen land and
There's no going back
It's a stolen land and it's all we've got
It's a stolen land and we'll never forget
It's a stolen land and we're not through yet
It's a stolen land but it's all we've got
It's a stolen land and there's no going back
It's a stolen land and we'll never forget
It's a stolen land and we're not through yet
Stolen land it's a stolen land
It's a stolen land it's a stolen land
Stolen land
The history of betrayal continues to today
The spirit of Almighty Voice
The ghost of Anna Mae
Call like thunder from the mountains
You can hear them say
It's a stolen land stolen land
Apartheid in Arizona, slaughter in Brazil
If bullets don't get good PR
There's other ways to kill
Kidnap all the children
Put 'em in a foreign system
Bring 'em up in no man's land
Where no one really wants them
It's a stolen land stolen land
It's a stolen land but it's all we've got
It's a stolen land and there's no going back
It's a stolen land and we'll never forget
It's a stolen land and we're not through yet
In my mind I catch a picture
Big black raven in the sky
Looking at the ocean sail
Reflected in black eye
Sail as white as heroin
White like weathered bones
Rum and guns and smallpox
Gonna change the face of home
In this stolen land stolen land
If you're like me you'd like to
Think we've learned from our mistakes
Enough to know we can't play God
With others' lives at stake
So now we've all discovered
The world wasn't only made for whites
What step are you gonna take
To try and set things right
In this stolen land? Stolen land
It's a stolen land but it's all we've got
It's a stolen land and there's no going back
It's a stolen land and we'll never forget
It's a stolen land and we're not through yet
Oh, it's a stolen land and
There's no going back
It's a stolen land and it's all we've got
It's a stolen land and we'll never forget
It's a stolen land and we're not through yet
It's a stolen land but it's all we've got
It's a stolen land and there's no going back
It's a stolen land and we'll never forget
It's a stolen land and we're not through yet
Stolen land it's a stolen land
It's a stolen land it's a stolen land
Stolen land