Name: Built On Genocide (Trail Of Tears Pt. II)
Duration: P00H05M03S
Description: Forest Recording :)

Built On Genocide (Trail Of Tears Pt. II)

from Not Going Well Over Here, Man (EP) by SMILE! You Are Alive.

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America: The Way To God
Has sold us all, on food for fear

To travel down this road of pain
Is all I’ve ever learned in years of tears

A trail of coal and gold
And know I know that I am never here

And I am sad to say, “I’m sorry
I could not overcome the worry
And listen to your speeches
And play along with this old story

Designed to cover up the gory truth
That wrestles this young nations boots
Bathed in blood and laced with shame
With leather backs of natives slain
By twisted tongues and promised lies
I hope one day this nation dies
A forest burned to grow anew
I wonder what would people do?

If every truth would come to light
Would they brush it off or stand and fight
For all the things that they deem right
For everyone with a stolen life

For everyone who died on dope
For the societies they could not cope
For every ounce of siphoned hope
For everyone at the end of our rope

I pray that we have Love to show
I pray that we have Love to show
I pray that we have Love to show
We’ve still a long long way to go

To break the chains of ego tides
If we’re waking up there’s nowhere to hide
Your evils done can no longer be denied
Now we can see it in your eyes

Now we can see it in your eyes
Now we can see it in your eyes
Eeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeees

It’s not worth the struggle
To justify the Life you’ve smuggled
To keep this enterprise alive
When it’s been Built on Genocide

And it’s not worth the struggle
To justify the Lives you’ve smuggled
To keep this enterprise alive
When it’s been Built on Genocide

And it’s not worth the struggle
To justify the All The Life you’ve smuggled
To keep this enterprise alive
When it’s been Built on Genocide!

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from Not Going Well Over Here, Man (EP), released July 11, 2020

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SMILE! You Are Alive. Asheville, North Carolina

When Worlds Collide
Groups Divide
But I Subside,
'Cause
Where Do
We Derive?
All Soft Souls;
Alive.

SMILE! We Are Alive.

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