School Days

School days

I learned your dates and numbers

I learned that you were the winners

That you were civilized, and I

I was your burden

School days

I learned about your victories

The valour and the glory that was yours

And I? The heathen had to hide

'Cause God was on your side

You never told me the thief came in the night

And stole my birthright

You never told me the empire you built then

Was founded on the bodies of my murdered brethren

You taught me to despise me seen through your eyes

But now I clearly see the lies you call

your history

School days

You taught me with your movies

The red man was no man at all

He could not hold his alcohol

The black man likes to sing and dance

But does not have intelligence

School days

You said my sins would be forgiven

If truly I repented, he'd wash my sins away

(Your way) but you have not repented

You are just the same

You never told me that Jesus was a Jew

And still you swear his hair was fair

His eyes were baby blue

You taught me to despise me seen through your eyes

But now I clearly see the lies you call

your history