School days I learned your dates and numbers I learned that you were the winners That you were civilized, and I I was your burden School days I learned about your victories The valour and the glory that was yours And I? The heathen had to hide 'Cause God was on your side You never told me the thief came in the night And stole my birthright You never told me the empire you built then Was founded on the bodies of my murdered brethren You taught me to despise me seen through your eyes But now I clearly see the lies you call your history School days You taught me with your movies The red man was no man at all He could not hold his alcohol The black man likes to sing and dance But does not have intelligence School days You said my sins would be forgiven If truly I repented, he'd wash my sins away (Your way) but you have not repented You are just the same You never told me that Jesus was a Jew And still you swear his hair was fair His eyes were baby blue You taught me to despise me seen through your eyes But now I clearly see the lies you call your history