Colony-Damien Dempsey

[ti:Colony] [ar:Damien Dempsey] [al:Shots] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Colony - Damien Dempsey [00:22.79]I sing the song of the colony [00:27.23]How many years and you're still not free [00:30.57]And your mother cries and you ask god why [00:37.70] [00:38.72]Greed is the knife and the scars run deep [00:42.46]How many races with much reason to weep [00:45.92]And your children cry [00:48.53] [00:49.50]And you ask god why [00:52.58] [00:54.36]Annie she came from Dunlavin Town [00:58.06]The TB came and killed her family all around [01:01.78]Population booms [01:04.13] [01:05.22]Eleven in two rooms [01:07.72] [01:09.72]Katie she came from down Townsend street [01:13.64]Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet [01:17.37]1916 came [01:20.06] [01:20.95]They played the patriots game [01:23.77] [01:25.73]Freddy he came from the Iveagh flats [01:28.83] [01:29.39]Tenement slums and infested with rats [01:33.02]Sleeping on damp straw [01:35.87] [01:36.48]Trying not to break the law [01:39.89] [01:41.26]Thomas he came from Kilmaine in Mayo [01:44.94]Semi starvation was the only life you'd know [01:49.03]In a two room shack [01:50.75] [01:52.41]Then jailed in Letterfrack [01:54.11] [02:12.83]I sing the song of the colony [02:17.21]How many years and you're still not free [02:20.82]And your mother cries and you ask god why [02:28.14] [02:29.01]Greed is the knife and the scars run deep [02:32.85]How many races with much reason to weep [02:36.60]And your children cry [02:39.09] [02:40.50]And you ask god why [02:43.63] [02:44.82]I look to the east I look to the west [02:48.50]To the north and the south and I'm not too impressed [02:51.68] [02:52.44]Time after time [02:54.01]After crime after crime [02:55.40]They raped robbed pillaged enslaved and murdered [02:58.80] [02:59.86]Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name [03:04.22]So he could take the blame if it's not all a game [03:07.27] [03:08.23]With bible in one hand and a sword in the other [03:11.66]They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers [03:16.09]And fathers and sisters and brothers [03:18.23] [03:19.07]With our own ancient customs laws music art [03:22.93]Way of life and culture [03:24.55] [03:25.14]Tribal in structure [03:26.36] [03:26.92]We had a civilisation [03:29.01]When they were still neanderthal nations [03:31.80]We suffer with the Native American the Indian in Asia [03:36.08] [03:36.80]Aboriginal Australia [03:37.75] [03:38.75]The African people with their history so deep [03:42.10] [03:42.68]And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap [03:46.34] [03:47.22]You came from Germany from France from England [03:50.60]And from Spain [03:51.87]From Belgium and from Portugal [03:53.79]You all done much the same [03:55.75]You took what was not yours [03:57.59]Went against your own bible [03:58.94] [03:59.82]You broke your own laws [04:01.34]Just to out do the rival [04:02.59] [04:03.12]But did you ever apologize [04:04.38] [04:04.92]For the hundreds and millions of lives [04:07.45]You destroyed and terrorised [04:08.51] [04:09.16]Or have you never realized [04:10.71] [04:11.24]Did you never feel shame [04:13.16]For what was done in your country's name [04:15.13] [04:15.71]And find out who's to blame and why they were so inhumane [04:19.44]And still they teach you in your school [04:21.51]About those glorious days of rule [04:23.54]And how it's your destiny to be [04:25.12] [04:25.75]Superior to me [04:27.70]But if you've any kind of mind [04:29.83]You'll see that all human kind [04:31.90]Are the children of this earth [04:33.87]And your hate for them will chew you up [04:36.65]And spit you out [04:37.53] [04:52.78]You'll never kill our will to be free to be free [04:59.71] [05:00.75]You'll never kill our will to be free to be free [05:07.19] [05:08.75]You'll never kill our will to be free to be free [05:15.96] [05:17.00]Inside our minds we hold hold the key