10000 Maniacs - Hateful Hate lyrics

[ music: natalie merchant/words: natalie merchant ]<br><br><br>In the dark night a giant slumbered untouched for centuries<br>'til awakened by a white man's cry: this is the eden I was to find.<br>There were lands to be charted and to be claimed for a crown,<br>When a hero was made by the length he could stay in this dangerous land of hateful hate.<br><br>Curiosity filled the heads of these, there was an upper room they had to see.<br>Curiosity killed the best of these for a hero's hometown welcoming.<br>Still they moved on and on.<br><br>Who came building missions? <br>Unswerving men of the cloth who gave their lives in numbers untold so that black sheep entered the fold.<br>Captured like human livestock, destined for slavery.<br>Naked, walked to the shore where great ships moored for the hellbound journies.<br>Bought and sold with a hateful hate.<br><br>Curiosity filled the breasts of these with some strange ecstasy.<br>Curiosity killed the best of these by robbing their lives of dignity.<br>Still they moved on and on.<br><br>Calling men of adventure for a jungle bush safari.<br>Come conquer the, his claws and teeth.<br>See death in his eyes to know you're alive.<br>European homesteads grew up in the colonies with civilized plans for wild hinterlands, their guns and God willing.<br>Such a hateful hate.<br><br>Curiosity spilled the blood of these for their spotted skins and ivory.<br>Curiosity filled the heads of these madmen with the lies of destiny.<br>Curiosity spilled the blood of these, then blotted their lives from history.<br>Curiosity filled the heads of these, one man claimed all that he could see.<br>Curiosity still entices these madmen with a lusting and a greed.<br>Their legacy, legacy, legacy...