Pain of Salvation - Black Hills lyrics

"They tell all the people of
Europe, it's a good, clean
Industry, it's a great way to
Save the world but
I'm here to tell you that
Now they're knocking on
Our door because they can't find any place
To store the damned stuff for eternity
They come to our homeland and they want
To lease some land for 10, 000 years!"

This was our home, we had our truth
Bled for our creed, why must we still bleed?
Your tailings are bound forever
In this ground

So you come for our holy ground
When your nature's gone
And your house has burnt down no
No

For hundreds of years you've hurt this land
Eating what's there, leaving a wasteland
But there is no space to
Hold all your mistakes

Still you come for our holy ground
When your nature's gone
And your houses are all burnt down

"To this day, they will not
Return our sacred land, even though
Their highest hypocritical court said that
We could and indeed did
Own the Black Hills i
Still continue to struggle
For the eventuality of regaining
That sacred land"