This Land is Your Land

this land is your land?
it's weird you say that
you came with loud guns
you came with bright flags

you colonized them
and then you claimed that
this land was always made for you

you built your houses
on native gravestones
and on their temples
you build payphones

pretend their gone now
that you are destined
that this land was always made for you

went from Apartheid
to segregation
you painted this
your rainbow nation

and now you stand there
with all you stole, saying
this land was always made for you

your hateful heroes
put up in marble
your white guilt
a whispered garble

and now you pretend
it's not related
this land was always made for you

your racist systems
you now defend them
with guns and flags
you swore were not yours

and now you yell
from every plaza
this land was always made for you

and you've got houses
blood money pay checks
built on the sweat of
black broken bare backs

and you're just descended
you never did that
this land was always made for you

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