Indigo Girls - Blood Quantum lyrics

You're standing in the blood quantum line

With a pitcher in your hand

Poured from your heart into your veins

You said I am

I am

I am

Now measure me

Measure me

Tell me where I stand

Allocate my very soul

Like you have my land

Genocide

Genocide

Colonize you

Christianize you

Patronize you

Advertise you

We loved you genocide

Regulate you

Assimilate you

Appropriate you

We love to hate you

Genocide

(you are a man without a face)

(you're just a number on a page)

Genocide

(there you are a woman without a face)

(we'll just erase you)

There you are a man without a face

You're just a number

(you're just a number on a page)

There you are a woman without a face

We'll just erase you

Conscripted children

Torn from truth

To the boarding school station

Force fed the foreign tongue of fire

And a prison education

Broken knowledge

Pencil scarred

Spit faced

The scattered sage

Wisdom deep within the rock

(the wisdom deep within the rock)

Outlives

(outlives the pretty lies upon the page)

Genocide

(how white the snowy graves)

How red the blood terrain

Genocide

(still pulsing with your dreams)

Above that stubborn stain

There you are a man without a face

(how white the snowy graves)

(how red the blood terrain)

Red the blood terrain

(still pulsing with your dreams)

There you are a woman without a face

(above that stubborn stain)

Above that stubborn stain

Genocide

Genocide

Genocide