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How We Came To Be Here

from Sturdy Little Men by The Admiral's Boy

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How We Came To Be Here

I'm a white man, sittin' at the right hand,
makin' a master plan, to reclaim the land,
of my father's who came before, enjoying the free-free-freedom,
of the stolen kingdom.

Putting aside the people, pushing them and shoving them,
along out of their places, along to other spaces,
taking the rest for themselves. These are my fathers causing
so much sorrow, leaving no hope left, no hope for tomorrow,
I'm little and growing up feeling wrong about the wronged,
the first born and second born sons and daughters of the land.
Cavalry coming, blades swinging, heads rolling, ancestors
doling out the punishment for being Red
Skinned and in the way of progress towards salvation.
What you use we won't share. Oh no.

The Red Brothers and Sisters have so much to teach,
the Iriquois Confederacy showed us the way and the US
constitution was written to say all man are created Equal.
But the word white was left out causing confusion and doubt
to all the yellows, reds and browns looking in at the party.
Brownskins in the fields, Yellowskins building the rails,
Redskins left wondering why their early friendship had failed
to bring peace.

I studied that in school, and I ain't no fool
it burrowed under my skin, it burned in my heart like sin.
The shame of this hurt, I wore it like a shirt,
that couldn't come off my back, started to stink from the lack
of anything to do, so I dreamed and schemed
of going back to attack, the first of the ones on the
shore to be no more so the rest wouldn't come
and when I was done in my mind
I thought what a crime
to hate my father's and mother's like that.

No righteousness left, I've got nothing to cheer,
and everything to fear about the way I came to be
HERE.

Howard Beye 2007

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from Sturdy Little Men, released October 31, 2013

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