Shadows (feat. Troy Cassar-Daley)

I see shadows on the hill

Up beside the old saw mill

Where my people were killed

I see shadows on the hill

I see the shadows, I see the gallows

What happens in the deep washes in the shallows

They don't wanna speak about the first battles

They can only see when they're lookin down the barrel

I see the shadows, I hear the shots

I feel the spirit from the fight that never stopped

They wanna talk about how far we got

(It never stops)

Where the bodies dropped they built a fuckin parking lot

And they call that survival

Put us on a mission, force fed us bibles

They put statues on our land just to worship false idols

Cuffs on our hands just to keep us in the cycle

Blood on their hands

Bodies at their feet

And as a warning they gon' hang 'em from the trees

Named for the banks, rivers and the streets

Nah the shadows never leave no justice no peace

I see shadows on the hill

Up beside the old saw mill

Where my people were killed

I see shadows on the hill

I'm the product of resistance, I embody who survived

I'm the strength of that spirit, I'm the voice of who have died

So who the fuck are you to civilize?

Nah we can't rely what you recall I hear your words I see your lies

And in the dead of night you can hear those babies cry

You can feel those eyes from the banks where they lay beside

Feel it in your spine when you know ya not alone

Shine bright till the shadows make it home

In around the granite stones

They'll forever be alone

Their killers get off free

But their shadows never leave

I see shadows on the hill

Up beside the old saw mill

Where my people were killed

I see shadows on the hill

I see shadows on the hill

Up beside the old saw mill

Where my people were killed

I see shadows on the hill