You wanna understand what happens today You gotta know how things got this way So let's back up from the present date And examine the history of a state As with the rest of this stolen land Mass murder is how it began From the first days of the Territory Only white men could own property
And to them the land was given for free From Wallowa to the Pacific Sea Taken by force and then handed out Leaving no room for the slightest doubt That a White Homeland was the intent And to make it certain just what that meant Signs were posted that clearly read Leave by dusk or end up dead
Best get out of town before the sun goes down Because if you're not white that's probable cause Here in the land of the Sunset Laws
The Oregon Territory's Constitution Explained the methods of exclusion It wasn't subtle – it was all too clear Nonwhite people not welcome here And when Oregon joined the USA It entered the union with laws this way Salem could fine and lash and kill To enforce the white land's will
After the war of gray and blue Exclusion Laws were passed anew They weren't repealed for sixty more years After the Klansman rule of Walter Pierce It feels a lot like nothing's changed Looks a lot like a firing range Who owns the land, who keeps the order From Portland to the California borderTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
