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Blasphemy
03:54
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With your
Holy rights
You rewrite
Your wrongs
In your
Sacred rites
Sing your
Own songs
Bulldoze
Brainwash
Erase
Steal the
Native culture
Passed off
As your own
You cry
For existence
Yet you
Slaughter citizens
Level
Destroy
Coerce
Bulldoze
Brainwash
Erase
Level
Destroy
Coerce
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Battir
03:38
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Held on through
Adversity
Strong leadership
Came from inside
Made much noise
Hung the clothes
Those tactics mean
There’s no wall dividing
Hold on
To yourselves
Stay strong
In this fight
Built on ancient ruins
Respecting the land
Irrigation ancient
Terraces still present
Growing yet today
Keep representing
Own your narrative
Tell it like it is
Hold on
To yourselves
Stay strong
In this fight
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3. |
Stolen Heritage
06:32
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Sixty years before they were five percent, and then they came in waves
Thirty years would pass; they would more than triple, buying up the land
Ten more years and twenty percent of native villagers had no land
Hard to fight for your rights when you’ve been colonized
Lands stolen
Customs stolen
Foods stolen
Heritage stolen
Now they’re a minority in their own land
No respect afforded to indigenous peoples
Don’t call it apartheid; it’s not back vs. white
Actually it’s so much worse than in South Africa
Lands stolen
Customs stolen
Foods stolen
Heritage stolen
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The Uprising I
05:40
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Try to break the chains, feel the growing pains
See, the blood does flow, fighting down below
Wearing colors proud, voices shouting loud
How’s resistance look? Hit the pocketbook
Lives spent suffering
Anger rising
After defeats
Take to the streets
Uprising
Stones against grenades, there’s no safe parades
When looking within, bond stronger with kin
Face a massive foe, put up a defense
Show their ugly side, captured in a lens
Lives spent suffering
Anger rising
After defeats
Take to the streets
Uprising
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The Uprising II
04:48
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Bringing arms to bear in the fight
In this case it seems like black and white
Little room left for calmer voices
Futures altered by violent choices
Pent up anger
Failing leaders
Fury rising
Over false “peace”
Uprising
No more nuance to this fight now
The time to make change is right now
Tactics borrowed from nearby
Retaliation sees bullets fly
Pent up anger
Failing leaders
Fury rising
Over false “peace”
Uprising
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Refrain
01:54
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Refrain from giving in in
Circumstances dire
Flag so proudly waved
Pain still felt from empire
Hurling stones and shouting words
Arms and throat my tire
Yet you refrain from giving in
Suffering nonstop oppression
Military in your village
Hold no illusion of rights
Just surviving is a fight
Hold your head up, spirit strong
You know your family’s lived here long
Oppressors try to erase
All evidence and all trace
That this has been your home for centuries
They’ve been struck, so now they strike
Sadly it lands upon you
Yet you refrain from being erased
Suffering nonstop oppression
Military in your village
Hold no illusion of rights
Just surviving is a fight
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