Silent Planet Native Blood
From the album The Night God Slept LYRICS: The barren wastes, bearing down on Cracks in the clouds leave me wondering: Did the oceans dry out and return to the sky, for a privileged perspective of our final goodbye Pretend it s a house of peace while she s buried underneath. You built your Father s house over my mother s Bodies a mass grave collapse the concave floor. These sanctimonious steeples will meet us in the dirt. Because the earth is trembling, iii if only we had eyes to see it shake. Ignorant until we expire. When the ocean fills our veins and the soil becomes my bones:iv Maybe we ll fall asleep tonight to the madness in the melody poured out for slaves. We were dressed in potential now we re draped in sorrow. Our race is a bloodstain spattered on a profane political campaign manifest your destiny. Stripes and stars comprise my prison bars the cost of liberty
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