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Colour Of My Skin

from Holy Colony Burning Acres by Troy Kingi

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This double TUI Award winning album is now available on double vinyl!

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    Order the wonderful new album by 'Troy Kingi and the Upperclass' on CD.

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lyrics

The footings of your house sit upon a stolen wealth
survived so long on tall tales passed down
the history books always overlooked the freedoms that you took

One people pushed out to make way for holy things
another brought in to take care of future kings
one day your empire will come sinking into the sand
cos you’re not for the land
it’s all about equity in the hand

when the final fish is caught and all the rivers are gone
when the sky is beaten you’ll finally see that money can’t be eaten
I know my ancestors were taken from other lands
fought endlessly for equality
yet i’m still judged by the colour of my....skin
What’s more important the people or the flag?
“Go off and go burn your nikes’
There’s some super dark stuff that nobody wanna talk about
“As long as I got my 5th amendment”

people killed while others watch from golden clouds
Ain’t ask for nothing but a chance to make their mama proud
we are statistics now just numbers in a native crowd
I fight the greed so those who went before can get some peace

Stand Up
Come on and Raise em up
Gotta be more commonsense then a nuclear defence
Power to the people
We were all made equal
The few at the top
We have to chop them off
you got to Use your Voice
shout scream come make some noise
We see the rich get richer
But we get clearer picture
We are the Majority
So here’s some clarity
united we’re powerful
no monster could ever overthrow

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from Holy Colony Burning Acres, released July 12, 2019

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Troy Kingi Auckland, New Zealand

Troy Kingi (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui)

Described by the New Zealand Music Commission as “Our Northland Treasure”, Kingi rose to fame after the release of his first two multi-award-winning albums ‘Guitar Party at Uncles Bach’ and ‘Shake That Skinny Ass All the Way to Zygertron'. ... more

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