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 [Spoken]

Even in the initial stages of contact between European Christians and Native Indian people, the stage was set for ethnocentrism
And the attitude towards the Indians was that of Christian superiority
The Indians were read a proclamation in Spanish which they had no hope of understanding
They had no hope of understanding the death sentence they were being read, and it went something like this:
"We ask and require you to acknowledge the church as the ruler and superior of the whole world and the high priest called pope, and in his name, the king of Spain, as lords of this land
If you submit we shall receive you in all love and charity and shall leave you, your wives and children, and your lands free without servitude
But if you do not submit we shall powerfully enter into your country and shall make war against you
We shall take you and your wives and your children and shall make slaves of them and we shall take away your goods and shall do you all the harm and damage we can."

Two thousand years ago we were all tribal
Then came the missionaries with their fuckin' bible
1492 began the termination
The holocaust of our Indian nations

Yeah, two thousand years ago we were all tribal
Then came the missionaries with their fucking bible
1492 began the termination
The holocaust of our Indian nations

Yeah, with Christian love and a moral authority
They killed our medicine men and stole our country
I never claimed this shit was poetry
It's just the fuckin' lies of Christianity

You will pray to the lord and get down on your knees
Here's a cross for your back and the coughing disease
Though you helped us survive we will laugh while you bleed
Then deny what we did, write our own history

Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!

Columbus murdered children, now we have a holiday
Still, you want to deny your history
Look to the sky for your god to justify
As you commit cultural genocide
Christians came and the natives they did hang
Thirteen at a time for Jesus and his gang
We are the ones you had to dehumanize
So your murder and greed could be justified

The belly of the church is full
With the blood of all of those heathen fools
Who would not receive the gift of Christ
So we burned them as a sacrifice
To our baby-killing god above
To our mother church and all her love
We will steal their gods and subjugate
Those who don't believe we'll annihilate

[Spoken]
The Spaniards made bets as to who would slit a man in two or cut off his head in one blow
They tore babies from their mother's breast by their feet and dashed their head against the rocks
They hanged Indians by thirteen in honor and reverence for their redeemer and their twelve apostles
They put wood underneath them with fire and burned the Indians alive!

[Hook]
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!

Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!

We believe in the earth, the sky, and dreams
The universe and the creator who gave us these
The sacred gift of life and human beings
Makes you perpetrate the hate to annihilate
So here I am the savage civilized
Voice of the dead and my ancestor's cries
And like the ghosts of this land, you can't erase
I see blood on the hands of the master race

[Bridge]
Five hundred years of manifest destiny
Five hundred years of manifest destiny
Five hundred years of manifest destiny
Five hundred years of resistance to the enemy

500 years of manifest destiny
500 years of manifest destiny
500 years of manifest destiny
500 years of resistance to the enemy

You have faith in the rivers, the mountains, the trees
We've a murdering god to replace all of these
With the blood of forgiveness, you too can be free
Or the wrath of Jehovah you're sure to receive
We will baptize you in the blood of the lamb
With the sword and the gospel, we'll conquer your land
You will join our church and be glad to be saved
Or we'll slaughter your children and women we'll rape

[Hook]
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!

Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!
Christians murdered Indians!

[Outro]
I see blood on the hands of the master race
I see blood on the hands of the master race
I see blood on the hands of the master race
I see blood on the hands of the master race
I see blood on the hands of the master race
I see blood on the hands of the master race
I see blood on the hands of the master race
I see blood on the hands of the master race
I see blood on the hands of the master race
I see blood on the hands of the master race...