We called it them and us.
We went around as entrepreneurs.
We went we found we plundered.
We were better resourced than them.
We were advance in culture than them.
We felt much smarter than them.
We showed them our ways.
We trained them in our ways.
We found them bow to us.
Did we make them bow to us?
WE are the colonials.
We did improve their lot.
From savages to cultured
From indigenous to global
We taught them English like us.
We gave them garments like ours
We educated their lot.
Even made them believe in our God.
Didn’t they choose to come to us?
We shared our illnesses too.
Although it was unintended
We gave them medicines too.
Just to help them get better.
Our ways are tested and used.
Across the world it shows
Leave your herbs and stuff!
They are outdated and primitive.
We didn’t say it, it was implied.
Cause our ways are the very best!
Hasn’t the world put them to the test?
We are enterprising and endeavouring.
So we deserve the very best
We dress so smart and are cultured.
The world bows to our behest
We deserve what we plunder.
Cause why not, finders are keepers.
So we got the Kohinoor diamond
We got the Egyptian treasures.
Even the Greek and Roman relics
We placed them in our museums.
For the world to see our finds
Don’t you respect our minds?
They had it, we deserved it.
We found it; we kept it.
See, it always comes down to
The world being about them and us.
We believed the best way to rule.
Was all about them and us.
So they quickly learnt our rule
Which is all about them and us.
Old fashioned words like community
Got extracted from their ways
We taught them individualism
We taught them capitalism
We gave them education
We taught them our ways
Very superior ways
Compared to their primitive ways
Crude and barbaric ways
Don’t you think so too?
So now the world is cultured.
From Africa across to Asia
And even down to Australia
They send their kids to British schools
They speak in English always.
Cause what will their languages do for them
They left their backward ways
Now what do you think that says
We are glorious in our ways
We the Western world
We invented democracy.
You may call it hypocrisy
But who cares,
Didn’t we get our way?
Our architecture is rich.
Yet our homes are old and cold.
How could we do everything?
We have been busy fixing the ways.
Of other peoples and other nations
Dividing all up into them and us
But you’ve got to give us credit.
For the care we showed the world
We gave them everything.
Now EVEN THEY, watch BBC.
They speak in English mostly.
So be our Judge and see.
We did well, didn’t we?
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