Colonizer Lyrics

I'm awake

Family

Family

Family

Back in the day our boy Eddie was stylin'

Playin' the days of planes of cane man that was life on Caribbean Islands

He had

Sold a paper or two man he had something to prove

Brothers need food

Caught up in hacking the blues

How that boy kept on the move

He had to

Man built like a statue

Let me ask you

How would you feel when the Nazis came at you?

They came to his island

Put up a ransom put up demands for

Metal cane and sugar and some boys were sane for saying no to their anthem

But his mama she said

Man you best go ahead

Get out of this place

And you find you a space

And that got in his head

He took a lifeboat on their ship

And he hid inside of it

And when the Nazis went to ship

They didn't know it was him that they had took with

Family

Family

Who were they?

He came to America

Built a house built a home with a woman named Ada

You tellin' me that a black man and a white italian fallin' in love in American melanin wasn't in the question and that wasn't wack man?

Nobody who could back that

Is alive today

We gone astray

Who were they?

Family

Colonizer

Polarizer

Synchronizing my colors on both sides the line

Is white and white's alright is that right?

If my family was riding from outside the times

But Italians colonized thrice

And to knowing the past there's a price

Like wondering

How did an island of Sibony Indians

End up the home to a black man whose kids who had kids who had kids

Who grew up in Michigan

Wondering where their true family is?

I'm a white man

And I'm a guest in this musical light

Created by black hands creatives and back to school jams

And we are all guests on this land

Hamilton Road

I'mma be straight out so you can't say you had never been told

It's where I grew old

The dirt the bugs the trees the house the screams the love the pain the childhood full

The place I learned to never be scared of the cold

My family is normal normal enough

That sample I been usin showing yous rough

My father yelling and yelling for what

My sisters were late for school?

Colonizer

Polarizer

Synchronizing my colors on both sides the line

Is white and white's alright is that right?

If my family was riding from outside the times

But Italians colonized thrice

And to knowing the past there's a price

Like wondering

How did an island of Sibony Indians

End up the home to a black man whose kids who had kids who had kids

Who grew up in Michigan

Wondering where their true family is?

And where does that anger come from?

Does it come from the northern Italians who came from the Balkans who came from who knows where their families upturned and destroyed their villages burned or from the black man from the island who worked with and then fought the Nazis whose family before them came from who knows where chained together at the bottom of a ship and whose stories will never be known? And that anger manifests itself today in the voice of my father and the burning sensation within methat I know it is And where will it go? Family