In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
We fought him hard, we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came, too much for Cree
Oh, will we ever be set free?
Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back
Women and children are cowards, attack
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Soldier blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing's a game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Yeah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
We fought him hard, we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came, too much for Cree
Oh, will we ever be set free?
Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back
Women and children are cowards, attack
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Soldier blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing's a game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Yeah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
Lyrics submitted by Novartza, edited by JackTStripper, RookieGTO, penisklaus, greanbanana
Run To The Hills Lyrics as written by Stephen Percy Harris
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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First and foremost: This song rocks.
Secondly: The lyrics are about 50% bullshit. I'm so sick of people lumping every American Indian tribe together and labelling them "The Noble Red Man" who was happy and free and clean and industrious till we fucked them over, like a real life version of Disney's Pocahontas or something..
Fact is, we did fuck the Indians. Some of them were decent, industrious tribes. A lot of them, including the Apaches, Mescaleros, Blackfeet, etc. were monstrously brutal savages who practiced torture and rape on their prisoners, valued their men by how many scalps he'd taken, and had been massacring the women and children of any OTHER INDIAN tribe nearby for many years before we got there.
Just like different European cultures, there's different Indian cultures. Some of them were Klingons and literally spent their days raiding and massacring anybody who came close.
Most of the tribes didn't deserve the two-timing crap they got from us. But at least a few of the ones who got ground out of existence by the US Army were the ones who built their entire tribe on war and murder and had been killing their neighbors for a long time already.
Go read the reports of somebody who actually saw what things were like instead of some shithead bleeding-heart "I'm embarassed to be white" cultural anthropologist who wouldn't know a real Indian if he fell over one.
@Bullzeye That's what it really sounds like
@Bullzeye good point
@Bullzeye but its true, white men come from Europe to slave and steal the gold and other jewls from all America countries, I mean, the same thing was on south america. Many tribes as Aztecas, Incas, Mayas lost their identity because of europeans. <br /> And it's true, many of them were savages, but was their culture. White men didn`t have to intervene with this.
@Bullzeye The point of your rant seems to be, The Tribes that attacked other tribes deserved to be wiped out by the white man...you might have been a propaganda man in another life; Goebbels Jr. <br /> <br /> Did they deserve smallpox? Alcoholism? The Trail Of Tears? Being killed in battle is one thing, disease-borne death-in-life is quite another. As is genocide. <br /> <br /> Can we agree that the HUMAN race is a virus upon the planet Earth? “Good” and “bad” are relative terms.
@Bullzeye I love this kind of comment a true american fascist !<br /> <br /> So if I follow your reasoning, any mightier / more advanced civilisation has the right to annihilate another less developped one since "they have some bad guys". In that case, God (assuming he exists) should also erase humanity from planet earth...<br /> <br /> Next, you forget that what white men did was to conquer territory and "push back" anybody already there. This is not very far from what the Germans did in Europe...<br /> <br /> Here we are not talking about war between tribes but GENOCIDE. White men came with pistols and rifles where others only have stone and arrows....<br /> <br /> YOU should read more about history of Europe.<br />