Matt & Jun - Settler Song Lyrics

You know we shut down 10,000 indigenous voices
You know there's no going back to the way that it once was

We took what we wanted screaming we deserve this
And ever since we've forced them to disappear or to join us

You know we trapped them in reserves and broken treaties
You know we outlawed their culture and stole their identities

You know they can't cultivate the land the way that they once did
You know they can't fish and hunt the way they once did

You know they can't care for the land while we build our pipelines
You know they can't care for the land when there's nothing left behind

Oh Canada we built our homes on Native Lands
Oh Ontario when you have no legs it's hard to stand
Haudenosaunee Anishnabe walkers of this Land
Oh Ontario when you have no legs it's hard to stand

You know there's a culture and a song and a drum
You know there's truth and wisdom that lasts for 7 generations
You know there's artists and walkers, storytellers and medicine
You know there's so much to learn if we could only sit and listen

But we stand and we take and we take
But we stand and we take and we take

Oh Ontario when you have no legs it's hard to stand
Haudenosaunee Iroquois Anishinabe walkers of this land
Oh Ontario when you have no legs it's hard to stand
Oh great lakes of old when you have no legs it's hard to stand
Water beautiful and cold when you have no legs it's hard to stand

You know we shut down 1,000,000 indigenous voices
You know there's no going back to the way that it once was

We took what we wanted screaming we deserve this
And ever since we've been trying to get them to disappear or to join us