Invasion

[Intro (spoken)]
Look here old chap it's us who gave you civilization
Invasion!

[Verse 1]
If a man in your house
Told you to come out
And told you to live in the garden
If it happened to you
Tell me: What would you do?
Wouldn't you fight and fight and fight them?

Those old, old Europeans
They had a lot of man
They went over to other people's land
To conquer was their intention

Those old, old Europeans
They had a lot of man
They went over to America
To try and conquer the red Indian

Well, I don't know about you
But I tell you what I do
When I am looking at a western
When I'm watching the telly
I don't really see
The red Indian as a real bad man

They had a lot to give
'Cau' they didn't want to live
In a likkle, old, dirty reservation
'Cau' they didn't care
'Cause they were just there
Defending their own homeland

Europeans come not one by one
But in the tens and thousands
With the intention
Of taking all the best land
And giving the Indian the bad one

Well, you must understand
That the red Indian
Were not just savages and madman
'Cause I am aware
That they were just there
Reacting like any human

[Verse 2]
If a man in your house
Told you to come out
And told you to live in the garden
If it happened to you
Tell me: What would you do?
Wouldn't you fight and fight and fight them?

Those old, old Europeans
They had a lot of man
They went over to other people's land
To conquer was their intention

Those old, old Europeans
They had a lot of man
They went over to South Africa
To try and conquer the South African

Cecil Rhodes and his posse of European
They come to wi African land
They came for a fight
With the gun inna dem right
And them Bible in their left hand

They treated us with nuff disgust
Never treated us like man and woman
Treated us like sup'm from outer space
Like sup'm that you wouldn't spit on

We were first class citizens inna Africa
They made us second class citizen
It is mad and bad and so, so sad
To be a prisoner in your own land

But mi people a-fight
For the truth and the rights
And the truth and rights must stand
So that system apartheid must be destroyed
And it can't carry on too long

[Verse 3]
If a man in your house
Told you to come out
And told you to live inna the garden
If that happened to you
Tell me: What would you do?
Wouldn't you fight and fight and fight them?

If a man in your house
Told you to come out
And told you to live in the garden
If it happened to you
Tell me: What would you do?
Wouldn't you fight and fight and fight them?

Those old, old Europeans
They had a lot of man
They went over to other people's land
To conquer was their intention

Those old, old Europeans
Were very cheeky man
They would turn 'round and say that they
Gave us civilisation
(Do you remember?)

Look here, old chap
It's us who gave you civilisation
If it wasn't for us, you'd be running around
Without any clothes on

We taught you to eat
With a knife in your right
And a fork in your left hand

If it wasn't for us
You'd be fighting with spears
Instead of with shotgun

We think your gold and silver
Is sufficient payment
For bringing you out of the past
And right into the present

You owe a lot to us
I'm sure you're in agreement
So, anything we say to do
Just do it and keep silent

These so-called civilised man
They come with dem big weapon
Kill off tiger, elephants, rhinoceros, and lion
Then put them head in a dining room for decoration
Now, tell me: Does that sound like a civilised person?

[Verse 4]
Those old, old Europeans
They had a lot of man
They went over to other people's land
To conquer was their intention

Those old, old Europeans
Were very clever man
They always made it seem like that
They were the righteous one

'Cau' everybody in here has a television
And each and everybody must have seen Tarzan
You know the one
Where you see a whole heap of African

Looking kinda mean
With their war paint on
And from one tree
Swing a white man a-shout
"Ah-wah-wah" like a-any mad man

And with one dry piece of knife in him hand
He kill all the African one by one
Well, me and you know it's imagination
But to some people, this is confusion
It's just another trick; a diversion
Created by the grand, old Europeans

[Verse 5]
Those old, old Europeans
They had a lot of man
They went over to other people's land
To conquer was their intention

Those old, old Europeans
They had a lot of man
They went over to America
Went over to South Africa
Went over to India
Went over to Australia
Went over to Canada
Went over the Jamaica
Went (went, went)

[Outro (spoken)]
If it wasn't for us
You'd be running around
Without any clothes on