DontRunMeOver

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We sail, 100 men of desperate mind
We hope from sea to land we'll be delivered
My prayers, once peaceful in my head
This last week have been coming as a fever

This is not for glory
This is not for fame
We came from the depths of poverty
Hoping life would change
This is not for ego
Nor for vanity
A proud man would not place himself
At the mercy of the sea

So many miles
So many miles
To this cage-like boat
Unreconciled
I'm feeling sick
And barely sane
We came this far
With just one aim

We came here
To colonise
We see this land
Through hungry eyes
We will take
What we can take
Now our ethics and god
Are far away
So far away

Finally we meet ground
I touch the rocky soil and say
This land belongs to me, I will accept no other owner
To keep it, I will do whatever it takes

For I have never owned
My own patch of earth
And now I've earnt the privelige
And I know it was worth
Every second of the journey
Every storm we had to meet
I left my home with nothing
Now I've a fortune at my feet

So many miles
So many miles
And now we're free
Of rank and file
Such freedom
We have never known
In mapless lands
We make our homes

We came here
To colonise
We see this land
Through hungry eyes
We will take
What we can take
Now our ethics and god
Are far away
So far away

I staked my claim over land that was not mine
And prayed this act of theft, would be forgiven over time
I staked my claim over land that was not mine
And prayed this act of theft, would be forgiven over time

We quote the past with sense of shame
Expansionist villains sully a nations name

But all of histories evils have brought us to today
Misdemanours of the past have put food upon your plate

So many years
So many years
Now disease and hunger
Are distant fears
And our forebears
Easily disowned
We don't acknowledge
What we owe

To renounces their evils
We would be hypocrites
While we are cradled
By the benefits
When you grip that mobile
In that righteous fist
Remind yourself
"It was exploitation paid for this"

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