Shedding Lyrics

Feel that deepening connection

Our paths crossed for a reason

To share in this relational conversation

Sinking deeper into our initial foundation

A subterranean look into your ancestry

That hallway extending deeper than you can see

Lit with the spirit world torch light

Sit in our unlimited whole foresight

Feel it wrap around your ankles

Submerge

Hear the voice in the wind

Wishing us to live

The land speaking to me

Land speaking to you

Hear the voice in the wind

Wishing us to live

And live and live

And live and live

Breathe in deep the first fresh air

After all the forest fires that have burned near

Tectonics underground have shifted here

Breathe in that first fresh air

From echoes in this valley flowing

Drum-song gusts blowing

Into cedar and spruce thru

Trauma that recently bloomed

In the gardens of schools to

The children secretly scooped

Past the control of sacred dreams

Charcoal burned by colonial regimes

Past the five-century fever of pyrexia

Into eyes of storms emerging from millennia

Of contracts well-kept with the land

Witnesses holding our honour to stand

For the seventh seven seven generations in hand

Past colonial lines marked in the sand

Hear the voice in the trees

The land speaking to me

Land speaking to you

Listen when she speak

Hear the voice in the trees

The land speaking to me

Land speaking to you

What I know is

This is our growth

Our turmoil

To the holy filth

For something greater

More than a burden of guilt

A duty to build

And enjoy

Crosses only crucify

While the medicine wheel

Unites four directions

Learning on the ground

Transform what is found

With the mounds of her words that we are bound

We scream this sound aloud aloud aloud

We won't ever abdicate

Pledges made to recreate

Bonding with celerity

Dumping their austerity

Forging solidarity

Laughing out hysterically

In the eyes of new storms

Relationships form

Eye contact

Gazes warm

Iris fully lit with the torch of purpose

Honeyed hazel earthen golden green grey

Sharp inhale with focus we find clean ways

Winds sailing oceans rejuvenating place

See the fields opening out from the forest

The orange and yellow autumn leaves

Shed his aggression & indifference

For devotion & deliverance

Hear the voice in the trees

The land speaking to me

Land speaking to you

Listen when she speak

Hear the voice in the wind

Wishing us to live

And live and live

And live and live

Hear the voice in the trees

The land speaking to me

Land speaking to you

Listen when she speak

Hear the voice in the wind

Wishing us to live

And live and live

And live and live