Colony Lyrics - It's All Good - Damien Dempsey

I sing the song of the colony 

How many years and you're still not free 

And your mother cries and you ask god why 

Greed is the knife and the scars run deep 

How many races with much reason to weep 

And your children cry 

And you ask god why 

Annie, she came from Dunlavin Town 

The TB came and killed her family all around 

Population booms 

Eleven in two rooms 

Katie she came from down Townsend street 

Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet 

1916 came 

They played the patriots game 

Freddy, he came from the Iveagh flats 

Tenement slums and infested with rats 

Sleeping on damp straw 

Trying not to break the law 

Thomas, he came from Kilmaine in Mayo 

Semi starvation was the only life you'd know 

In a two room shack 

Then jailed in Letterfrack 

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I look to the east, I look to the west 

To the north and the south, and I'm not too impressed 

Time after time 

After crime after crime 

They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered 

Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name 

So he could take the blame if it's not all a game 

With bible in one hand and a sword in the other 

They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers 

And fathers, and sisters and brothers 

With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art 

Way of life and culture 

Tribal in structure 

We had a civilisation 

When they were still neanderthal nations 

We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia 

Aboriginal Australia 

The African people with their history so deep 

And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap 

You came from Germany, from France, from England 

And from Spain 

From Belgium and from Portugal 

You all done much the same 

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You took what was not yours 

Went against your own bible 

You broke your own laws 

Just to out do the rival 

But did you ever apologize 

For the hundreds and millions of lives 

You destroyed and terrorised 

Or have you never realized 

Did you never feel shame 

For what was done in your country's name 

And find out who's to blame and why they were so inhumane 

And still they teach you in your school 

About those glorious days of rule 

And how it's your destiny to be 

Superior to me 

But if you've any kind of mind 

You'll see that all human kind 

Are the children of this earth 

And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out 

You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free 

You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free 

You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free 

Inside our minds we hold, hold the key.