Native Son

Album: Into The Fire (1987)
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  • I've seen many moons through these wrinkled eyes

    The years have made me old

    But they've made me wise

    Now the white man lives where our rivers run

    For now better days have passed

    We walk the streets of broken glass

    Our people vanished as snow before the summer sun

    Like dogs we were driven from this place

    Such injustice, time will not erase

    All these changes cannot be undone

    When you feel the anger inside of you

    Hold your head high - let your aim be true

    Though your heart beats like a drum

    My native son

    Once there was a time my little one

    Before the wagons - before the soldiers' guns

    When this land was ours as far as the eagle flies

    No white flag - no broken truce

    With few words one can speak the truth -

    I don't hear it

    Time won't heal it now

    With each new day that comes to pass

    Will the great spirit free us all at last?

    He said we were the chosen ones

    For all we had there's nothin' left

    We won? t forgive - we can't forget

    You know that your day will come

    My native son

    With each new day that comes to pass

    Will the great spirit free us all at last?

    What has happened can never be undone

    When i was young - not yet a man

    The sun rose and set upon our land

    We were the chosen ones

    My native son Writer/s: BRYAN ADAMS, JAMES DOUGLAS VALLANCE
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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