Island - Tanuki

We’re still waiting

For the day we’d call this home

The beating of our fragrant shores

It’s all we’ve come to know

They thought to cover them

The scars they left on those abandoned hearts

On that forgotten square

Do you still remember?

The crowd will take the streets despite

The waves will march on us tonight

They came to bury us

Underneath the notes we hung

We didn’t build this wall just to watch them tear it down

And in the sleepless hours the countless lights

We bridge the parasols with sign

Can it shield us from the fear

They won’t stop at choking or blinding us

We know that they’re out for blood this time

The number of the wounded is far too much

This may come to cost us every life

They came to bury us

Underneath the notes we hung

We didn’t build this wall just to watch them tear it down

We came with empty hands

Carried by out native tongue

They tried to break us all

But still we held our ground

You can’t take this back

So we will paint it black

The red they chose for us

Has never been our own

You can keep your lies

Give up the dead you hide

They won’t get away with this one

They came to bury us

Underneath the notes we hung

They didn’t build this wall just to watch them tear it down

We came with empty hands

Carried by our native tongue

They tried to break us all

But still we held our ground

No matter what it takes, don’t let them tear you down