Something I Was Thinking About ft. Storytellers Lyrics

Okay, when did you start

Like, have you always practiced your culture

Well, yeah, exactly. Have you always been Nish or like

Almost drifted off to sleep, catching Z's

Almost thought that this life would be easy

Almost went, and fell down a rabbit hole

Almost got myself addicted to Adderall

Starting to feel like I aint appreciated

So when shit gets rough, pushing like I'm constipated

I'm not the greatest, but I miig creator that i made it

Another day, see the sunrise, so elated

It aint your birthday, but shit happy belated

You should hear the rez pick up lines, we aint related

I did the calculations, not hallucinating

I still give thanks to everything, all my relations

I put that shit on everything Franks Red Hot

Sometimes people gotta feast at the gumbo pot

If you aint got much to eat, you can still speak

There's always food in my Pan Indians was weak

So don't worry about the knowledge of your next meal

I can shoulder some of this burden until my legs feel

Like they might fall off from another long journey

Anishinaabe aki, we're here to take class early

It was my whole life. My whole life, I did

Did you, like, grow up learning your language, too

Was it spoken fluently around you

Yeah, it was fluent, and I always, always knew my language until I went to school

And where did you go to school

Catholic school

And then, like, that's when the language stopped

No sooner you might be right next to me

Drifting away, falling asleep

Late nights, feeling the midnight

Breeze

No sooner you might be right next to me

Drifting away, falling asleep

Late nights, feeling the midnight

Breeze

Damn

Everytime that I sit and reflect

All my life, I better breathe til there's nothing left

Cause when i think about the past generations

Who had hope stripped, fightin' assimilation

I fucken wish there was a blue pill, a simulation

Then maybe we'd have more kids out at the convocation

It's not the lack of motivation, ya'll got beautiful minds

We can't change the past, but it's the passage of time

That might take us to the next phase, a different vision

Two plus two is easy, but it's hard to fight division

I'm on a mission it's my method like I'm Reverend Jones

Ni anishinaabemowin in some christian homes

Oooh, Nishna nongom

How you feeling today

Gichii gichii nendam

Oooh, Nishna nongom

How you feeling today

Gichii gichii nendam

No, just to see things. We're coming along. We've got a long way to go, though

A long way to go

That's all we can do is, you know, hope and pray and keep it going

Because I'm not going to be here forever, either, so

I mean, you young guys are bringing it, so bring it home

No sooner you might be right next to me

Drifting away, falling asleep

Late nights, feeling the midnight

Breeze

No sooner you might be right next to me

Drifting away, falling asleep

Late nights, feeling the midnight

Breeze

Was there sandwiches left

No, they were all gone