Bruce Cockburn Stolen Land Lyrics

Stolen Land Lyrics

From Tierra del Fuego to Ungava Bay

The history of betrayal continues to
today

The spirit of Almighty Voice, the ghost of Anna Mae

Call like
thunder from the mountains -- you can hear them say It's a stolen land 



Apartheid in Arizona, slaughter in Brazil

If bullets don't get
good PR there's other ways to kill

Kidnap all the children, put 'em in a
foreign system

Bring them up in no-man's land where no one really wants
them

It's a stolen land 



Stolen land -- but it's all we've
got

Stolen land -- and there's no going back

Stolen land -- and
we'll never forget

Stolen land -- and we're not through yet 



In my mind I catch a picture -- big black raven in the sky

Looking at
the ocean -- sail reflected in black eye --

Sail as white as heroin,
white like weathered bones --

Rum and guns and smallpox gonna change the
face of home

In this stolen land... 



If you're like me you'd
like to think we've learned from our mistakes

Enough to know we can't play
god with others' lives at stake

So now we've all discovered the world
wasn't only made for whites

What step are you gonna take to try and set
things right

In this stolen land 



Stolen land -- but it's
all we've got

Stolen land -- and there's no going back

Stolen land
-- and we'll never forget

Stolen land -- and we're not through yet