| Song | Colony |
| Artist | Damien Dempsey |
| Album | t's All Good (The Best Of) (2014) |
| [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] | 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 |