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Song Colony
Artist Damien Dempsey
Album t's All Good (The Best Of) (2014)
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[00:00.00] 作词 : Dempsey Damien Jude Patrick
[00:01.00] 作曲 : Dempsey Damien Jude Patrick
[00:25.83] I sing the song of the colony
[00:26.64] How many years and you're still not free
[00:30.15] And your mother cries and you ask god why
[00:38.22] Greed is the knife and the scars run deep
[00:42.00] How many races with much reason to weep
[00:45.66] And your children cry
[00:49.41] And you ask god why
[00:51.03] Annie, she came from Dunlavin Town
[00:57.39] The TB came and killed her family all around
[01:01.14] Population booms
[01:04.89] Eleven in two rooms
[01:09.33] Katie she came from down Townsend street
[01:13.26] Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet
[01:16.80] 1916 came
[01:20.43] They played the patriots game
[01:25.02] Freddy, he came from the Iveagh flats
[01:28.92] Tenement slums and infested with rats
[01:32.40] Sleeping on damp straw
[01:36.12] Trying not to break the law
[01:40.80] Thomas, he came from Kilmaine in Mayo
[01:44.79] Semi starvation was the only life you'd know
[01:48.60] In a two room shack
[01:51.90] Then jailed in Letterfrack
[01:53.43] I look to the east, I look to the west
[02:47.76] To the north and the south, and I'm not too impressed
[02:51.60] Time after time
[02:53.37] After crime after crime
[02:55.02] They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered
[02:59.55] Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name
[03:03.33] So he could take the blame if it's not all a game
[03:07.68] With bible in one hand and a sword in the other
[03:11.04] They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers
[03:15.69] And fathers, and sisters and brothers
[03:18.51] With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art
[03:22.62] Way of life and culture
[03:24.63] Tribal in structure
[03:26.43] We had a civilisation
[03:28.50] When they were still neanderthal nations
[03:31.41] We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia
[03:36.33] Aboriginal Australia
[03:38.37] The African people with their history so deep
[03:42.27] And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap
[03:46.83] You came from Germany, from France, from England
[03:50.13] And from Spain
[03:51.24] From Belgium and from Portugal
[03:53.34] You all done much the same
[03:55.26] You took what was not yours
[03:57.06] Went against your own bible
[03:59.31] You broke your own laws
[04:00.87] Just to out do the rival
[04:02.76] But did you ever apologize
[04:05.16] For the hundreds and millions of lives
[04:07.14] You destroyed and terrorised
[04:09.15] Or have you never realized
[04:11.04] Did you never feel shame
[04:12.75] For what was done in your country's name
[04:15.36] And find out who's to blame and why they were so inhumane
[04:18.99] And still they teach you in your school
[04:21.06] About those glorious days of rule
[04:23.16] And how it's your destiny to be
[04:25.35] Superior to me
[04:27.15] But if you've any kind of mind
[04:29.40] You'll see that all human kind
[04:31.59] Are the children of this earth
[04:33.66] And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out
[05:03.24] You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:05.67] You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:14.01] You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:16.59] Inside our minds we hold, hold the key
[00:00.00] zuo ci : Dempsey Damien Jude Patrick
[00:01.00] zuo qu : Dempsey Damien Jude Patrick
[00:25.83] I sing the song of the colony
[00:26.64] How many years and you' re still not free
[00:30.15] And your mother cries and you ask god why
[00:38.22] Greed is the knife and the scars run deep
[00:42.00] How many races with much reason to weep
[00:45.66] And your children cry
[00:49.41] And you ask god why
[00:51.03] Annie, she came from Dunlavin Town
[00:57.39] The TB came and killed her family all around
[01:01.14] Population booms
[01:04.89] Eleven in two rooms
[01:09.33] Katie she came from down Townsend street
[01:13.26] Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet
[01:16.80] 1916 came
[01:20.43] They played the patriots game
[01:25.02] Freddy, he came from the Iveagh flats
[01:28.92] Tenement slums and infested with rats
[01:32.40] Sleeping on damp straw
[01:36.12] Trying not to break the law
[01:40.80] Thomas, he came from Kilmaine in Mayo
[01:44.79] Semi starvation was the only life you' d know
[01:48.60] In a two room shack
[01:51.90] Then jailed in Letterfrack
[01:53.43] I look to the east, I look to the west
[02:47.76] To the north and the south, and I' m not too impressed
[02:51.60] Time after time
[02:53.37] After crime after crime
[02:55.02] They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered
[02:59.55] Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name
[03:03.33] So he could take the blame if it' s not all a game
[03:07.68] With bible in one hand and a sword in the other
[03:11.04] They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers
[03:15.69] And fathers, and sisters and brothers
[03:18.51] With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art
[03:22.62] Way of life and culture
[03:24.63] Tribal in structure
[03:26.43] We had a civilisation
[03:28.50] When they were still neanderthal nations
[03:31.41] We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia
[03:36.33] Aboriginal Australia
[03:38.37] The African people with their history so deep
[03:42.27] And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap
[03:46.83] You came from Germany, from France, from England
[03:50.13] And from Spain
[03:51.24] From Belgium and from Portugal
[03:53.34] You all done much the same
[03:55.26] You took what was not yours
[03:57.06] Went against your own bible
[03:59.31] You broke your own laws
[04:00.87] Just to out do the rival
[04:02.76] But did you ever apologize
[04:05.16] For the hundreds and millions of lives
[04:07.14] You destroyed and terrorised
[04:09.15] Or have you never realized
[04:11.04] Did you never feel shame
[04:12.75] For what was done in your country' s name
[04:15.36] And find out who' s to blame and why they were so inhumane
[04:18.99] And still they teach you in your school
[04:21.06] About those glorious days of rule
[04:23.16] And how it' s your destiny to be
[04:25.35] Superior to me
[04:27.15] But if you' ve any kind of mind
[04:29.40] You' ll see that all human kind
[04:31.59] Are the children of this earth
[04:33.66] And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out
[05:03.24] You' ll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:05.67] You' ll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:14.01] You' ll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:16.59] Inside our minds we hold, hold the key
[00:00.00] zuò cí : Dempsey Damien Jude Patrick
[00:01.00] zuò qǔ : Dempsey Damien Jude Patrick
[00:25.83] I sing the song of the colony
[00:26.64] How many years and you' re still not free
[00:30.15] And your mother cries and you ask god why
[00:38.22] Greed is the knife and the scars run deep
[00:42.00] How many races with much reason to weep
[00:45.66] And your children cry
[00:49.41] And you ask god why
[00:51.03] Annie, she came from Dunlavin Town
[00:57.39] The TB came and killed her family all around
[01:01.14] Population booms
[01:04.89] Eleven in two rooms
[01:09.33] Katie she came from down Townsend street
[01:13.26] Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet
[01:16.80] 1916 came
[01:20.43] They played the patriots game
[01:25.02] Freddy, he came from the Iveagh flats
[01:28.92] Tenement slums and infested with rats
[01:32.40] Sleeping on damp straw
[01:36.12] Trying not to break the law
[01:40.80] Thomas, he came from Kilmaine in Mayo
[01:44.79] Semi starvation was the only life you' d know
[01:48.60] In a two room shack
[01:51.90] Then jailed in Letterfrack
[01:53.43] I look to the east, I look to the west
[02:47.76] To the north and the south, and I' m not too impressed
[02:51.60] Time after time
[02:53.37] After crime after crime
[02:55.02] They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered
[02:59.55] Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name
[03:03.33] So he could take the blame if it' s not all a game
[03:07.68] With bible in one hand and a sword in the other
[03:11.04] They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers
[03:15.69] And fathers, and sisters and brothers
[03:18.51] With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art
[03:22.62] Way of life and culture
[03:24.63] Tribal in structure
[03:26.43] We had a civilisation
[03:28.50] When they were still neanderthal nations
[03:31.41] We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia
[03:36.33] Aboriginal Australia
[03:38.37] The African people with their history so deep
[03:42.27] And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap
[03:46.83] You came from Germany, from France, from England
[03:50.13] And from Spain
[03:51.24] From Belgium and from Portugal
[03:53.34] You all done much the same
[03:55.26] You took what was not yours
[03:57.06] Went against your own bible
[03:59.31] You broke your own laws
[04:00.87] Just to out do the rival
[04:02.76] But did you ever apologize
[04:05.16] For the hundreds and millions of lives
[04:07.14] You destroyed and terrorised
[04:09.15] Or have you never realized
[04:11.04] Did you never feel shame
[04:12.75] For what was done in your country' s name
[04:15.36] And find out who' s to blame and why they were so inhumane
[04:18.99] And still they teach you in your school
[04:21.06] About those glorious days of rule
[04:23.16] And how it' s your destiny to be
[04:25.35] Superior to me
[04:27.15] But if you' ve any kind of mind
[04:29.40] You' ll see that all human kind
[04:31.59] Are the children of this earth
[04:33.66] And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out
[05:03.24] You' ll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:05.67] You' ll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:14.01] You' ll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:16.59] Inside our minds we hold, hold the key
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