1492

Nothing has changed!
 I see fountains of blood
 Devastation birthed of greed
 Billowing sails beget a cycle of genocide
 The soil is cursed, the souls suffer plague
 A grim reminder of an earlier age
 At what price do we acquire?
 At what price do we acquire?
 I see bodies swinging in the wind
 Faces bloated and bruised
 Burning crosses brand terror into
 The heart of a race, the soul of a nation
 A grim attempt at annihilation
 So in slavery did we acquire
 Rotten! Our souls are rotten at the core
 We provoke ugliness to emerge from beauty
 Everything that we touch becomes filthy
 Soiled!
 Soiled!
 I see barbed wire encircling
 The forms of a disenfranchised population
 Who based on their country of origin
 Are held captive as traitors
 Are taught humiliation
 So in internment did we trust no one
 Rotten! Our souls are rotten at the core
 We provoke ugliness to emerge from beauty
 Everything that we touch becomes filthy
 Soiled!
 Soiled!
 I see the impoverished native on the concentration camp we call a reservation
 I see the innocent Arab removed from his family on false accusations
 I see the man on death row, framed for speaking out
 I see the welfare mother plucked from her children to slave for minimum wage
 I see the perpetuation of evil and nothing has changed
 Nothing has changed!
 Nothing has changed!