Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - I Pity The Country lyrics

I pity the country, I pity the state
And the mind of a man who thrives on hate
Small are the lives of cheats and of liars
Of bigoted news press, fascist town criers

Deception annoys me, deception destroys me
The Bill of Rights throws me, jails
They all know me frustrated are churchmen
The saving-of-soul men
The tinker, the tailor, the colonial governor

They rape and they beat me
(I pity the country) seeking to draw me
(I pity the state, and the mind of a man)
Away from the roundness (Who thrives on hate)
Of this life

Silly civil servants, they thrive off my body
Their trip is with power, back bacon
And welfare police, they arrest me
Materialists detest me


Pollution, it chokes me, movies, they joke me

Politicians exploit me
(Politicians exploit me)
City life, it jades me
(City life, it jades me)
Hudson's Bay fleeces me
(Hudson's Bay fleeces me)
Hunting laws freak me (Hunting laws freak me)
Government is stumbling
(Government is stumbling)
Revolution is rumbling
(Revolution is rumbling)
To be ruled in impunity
(To be ruled in impunity)
Is tradition continuity
(Is tradition continuity)

I pity the country, I pity the state
And the mind of a man who thrives on hate
I pity this country

I pity the country, I pity the state
And the mind of a man who thrives on hate
Small are the lives of cheats and of liars
Of bigoted news press fascist town criers

I pity the country, I pity the state
And the mind of a man who thrives on hate
I pity the country, I pity the state