Letras
I had a nightmare
That in the holy name of God
The European fathers traveled North America
And shed a river raging blood
The land couldn't swallow it up
And with our Bibles and our dogmas we played pretending games
Casting all the natives into god-forsaken knaves
Coercing all their children to conform to Western ways
Breaking every promise we made
De Casas patron saint of God's decolonizing ways
I dreamed again
We had to beat out all the demons
From people left-hand dominant
From bodies deemed misshaped
The neuro-chemically imbalanced
And the sexually divergent
What a God-forsaken hideous tale
Hatred, shame, and death: our blackened holy grail
I had a nightmare that because we loved our grains
Our rices and our coffees and our economic gains
We chained up beautiful humans as slaves
We chained up beautiful humans as slaves
We thought up every scheme and system in the book, you see
To imprison and impoverish, to other and demean
To confirm our complex of superiority
To confirm our complex of superiority
I had a nightmare that we took hold of God's green earth
And bound it on the altar of our cravings and desires
Reshaping planet earth to be a tragic funeral pyre
If God is life we're lightyears from divinely inspired
God if we even have a soul that's left to save
And if I could dare to ask you turn your gracious face
Would your least of these pray for us today
Would your least of these pray for us today