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An American Landscape by ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) from our 11th album An American Landscape – Scared of America Volume Two – listen to the album HERE
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An American Landscape was released as an official single on 28 July 2018 and is available to download on Spotify HERE on iTunes HERE on Amazon HERE on Tidal HERE on Deezer HERE on Google Play HERE
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An American Landscape Lyrics
I look out on an American Landscape
And see the past that you can’t escape
Built on blood and toil
On internal wars and turmoil
You cannot escape
From this American Landscape
I see the stars and stripes draped on graves
Over the souls of the once brave
Who fought for freedom and for slaves
And for all those downtrodden
Now forgotten in these times called ‘modern’
In the ‘Land of the Free’
You introduced slavery
And took the black man’s liberty
For a life of misery
For a life of misery
You cannot escape
From this American Landscape
People killed for the colour of their skin
From then till now ‘the bell of hate’ rings
In your land ‘the rule of the gun’
Affects the lives of everyone
You killed Presidents and men of peace
The fighting and killing doesn’t cease
Fought wars of brothers against brothers
There will always be another
You cannot escape
From this American Landscape
There is a little house built on land
Now occupied by the White Man
On the plains Buffalo once roamed
That was once the Indian’s home
But that was such a long time ago
This land it is their land
This land it isn’t your land
It belongs to the Indians
And not to the White Man
This land belongs to them
You cannot escape
From this American Landscape
You stole it over generations
And you put them on reservations
From Osagie to Alona
And from Rosebud to Yakoma
The First Nation evicted and suppressed
And ridiculed and oppressed
Erased from the history books
Rewritten by politicians and crooks
You cannot escape
From this American Landscape
The past is gone
And the future goes on
You can make good what’s wrong
You are a nation that is strong
Your obligations you can’t escape
You must fix this American Landscape
You must fix this American Landscape
You must fix this American Landscape
Music composed and performed by Paul Odiase BMI No. 1252265 (Switzerland)
Song lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode 312254HU
ISRC: QZDA71849041
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