Native Blood - Silent Planet

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

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

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