Native Blood Redux

The barren wastes, bearing down on me
 Cracks in the clouds leave me wondering
 Did the oceans dry out, 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 grave
 Bodies, a mass grave collapse the concave floor
 These sanctimonious steeples will meet us in the dirt
 Because the earth is trembling
 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
 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
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 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
 Maybe we'll fall asleep tonight
 To the madness in the melody poured out for slaves
 
 Maybe this storm is a perfect score
 For wretched bodies washed ashore, poured out for me
 The life I loved looking up at me
 Saplings struck like daggers, hemorrhaging streams
 As the breath of my people return to the ground
 So forests can once more abound
 The suffering cross that overcame
 The name of love made concurrent with shame
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 This melody, I thought it familiar
 It sounds like your heartbeat keeping time
 
 Then you turn and remind me that this pain has a purpose
 And maybe we'll fall asleep tonight