Autobiography Of A Nation

Album: Full Collapse (2001)
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  • Write these words back down inside
    We have burned their villages and all the people in them died
    And we adopt their customs and everything they say we steal
    All the dreams they had we kill
    Still we all sleep sound tonight
    Is this what you wanted to hear?
    We erased all their images and dance
    And replaced them with borders and flags

    At the top of this timeline you'll remember
    This is the lipstick on the collar
    and in my own life I've seen it in the mirror
    sometimes at the cost of others hopes

    Write these words back down inside
    That's where you need it the most and without conviction of heart you will never feel it at all
    Yeah - We all dance to the same beat when we're marching
    Yeah - The TV tells us everything we need
    And this scene is painting in all the fashions of the moment and history is all the same

    Everything you say you stole
    Every dream you dream you bought Writer/s: Geoffrey Rickly, Robert III Keeley, Steven Pedulla, Thomas Rule, Timothy Payne
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Pat from Reading, Mathey did this at bamboozle '07. they were under the name bearfort and called it autobearography of a nation. bears are people too!
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