lyrics by The Broadways

Everything I Wanted to Know About Genocide I Learned in the Third Grade

third graders holding hands
indians & pilgrims celebrating new found lands
they tried to teach me that at school
make the white race look superior
it's always been their rule

now I can't believe we celebrate thanksgiving as a holiday of unity and peace
if I had my way, we'd all dress in black
and daddy would serve up the white meat

'cuz genocide is nothing to celebrate
extinction doesn't deserve a parade
we perpetuate these lies
with the turkeys that we buy
I tried explaining to my mom
but she's too afraid
to admit to herself
that her race is a killing machine
take a look around your town
take a look around your town
take a look around your town and who do you see?
the native american is surprisingly absent
in his own indigenous land
do you want to know why?
it's cuz we killed them all
it's not that hard to understand, yeah

so I go to college and you know what I learned?
that 80 million people were killed
by my grandpa, your grandpa, and all of their friends
they bleached out our continent, but that's not the end

the last full blooded aborigine
died a century ago
if it's possible, there's a place in the southern hemisphere
with a history even worse than our home
no one finds it peculiar that a tropical island
is full of people just like you and me
but australia's a piece of shit floating in the pacific
buoyed by the blood of the aborigine
buoyed by the blood of the aborigine