Lyrics
How the fuck can you claim
Challenging the legitimacy of a claim
Something that's not yours?
Questioning ownership or entitlement
Didn't your ships just land
Referencing historical colonization
Upon these ancient shores?
Highlighting the antiquity of the land
Fuck your founding fathers'
Disparaging the motives of founding figures
Fabricated holy right
Criticizing perceived religious justifications
Thinking you can take anything
Rejecting the notion of entitlement based on race
Just because you're white
Addressing racial privilege and superiority
Manifest destiny
Referencing the historical concept of manifest destiny
Sentencing death to me
Expressing a feeling of impending death due to historical actions
False justification
Rejecting false justifications for past actions
Death from sea to shining sea
Describing death spreading across the nation
Mass removal, stolen lands
Referring to forced displacements and stolen lands
Just for new white folk
Commenting on demographic changes due to colonization
Government funded genocide
Accusing the government of supporting genocide
Our history's no joke
Asserting the seriousness of the historical narrative
Manifest destiny
Reiterating the concept of manifest destiny
Sentencing death to me
Repeating the sense of impending death
False justification
Emphasizing the falseness of justifications
Death from sea to shining sea
Repeating the idea of death spreading across the nation
Drew all of these arbitrary lines
Commenting on the arbitrary nature of borders
Built all of these anglo shrines
Criticizing the construction of monuments by Anglo settlers
English is a foreign language
Highlighting the foreign origins of the English language
Delivered us perpetual anguish
Expressing ongoing distress and suffering
Policies and treaties vague
Describing the ambiguity of policies and treaties
Infested us like a goddamn plague
Metaphorically likening negative influences to a plague
Remember that in this conquest
Reminding of the unwelcome nature of the conquest
You're still our uninvited guest
Reiterating the status of outsiders in the historical narrative
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