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Dead Medicine
03:56
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These wounds are deep
Don’t seem to be healing
Keep salting them up
So they just keep bleeding
I heard the old ones talk
They said the green ones know
If you remember how to look
They heal you as they grow
It’s been two lifetimes
I’m more poison than blood now
It’s been two lifetimes
I'm more poison than blood now
I heard the old ones talk
They said the green ones know
If you remember how to look
They heal you as they grow
Reverse transfusion
Bleed it all out
Reverse transfusion
I search for the cure
In this new world
All I find
Is dead medicine
Nothing green left
In these hills
All they’ve got for us
Is pills
It’s dead medicine
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Turning Tide
03:51
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The beast arrives
On golden shores
Belly full of souls in chains
With chains to spare
His ill intent is a stench
Like blinding fumes
Suffocating fog
Still lingers in the air
Scorched earth like a great black sea
Once full of life
Now sighing silently
They say the rains of change
Have slowly snuffed the flames
But we know that below
A glowing ember remains
Streets of silver
Hills of gold
It’s every lie you ever told
Voices rising
Walls fall down
You forget you are on sacred ground
You can no sooner
Burn the sky
We are one million miles wide
And we were born to survive
We are the raging river
We are the turning tide
We are the turning tide
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3. |
Swamp Interlude
01:42
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Letiche
06:56
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Pres de l’eau
Where the cypress grow
Un bebe gait en elle
Un souvenir de viol
Un souvenir de viol
This wretched babe, her hell
Born dans les cocodries dwell
In desperation she cries
Mon dieu, cette bette
Please let it die
Let it die
Pres de l’eau
Where the cypress grow
Un souvenir de viol
Un souvenir de viol
As she hold his head below
Body sinking heavy, slow
Water seeping soul release
Father je n’ai pas de fis
Drown with me
I am sin
Drown with me
I am your sin
I AM LETICHE
DOOMED TO THE DEPTHS
OF THIS BLACK WATER
SEARCHING FOR MY FATHER
FOR HIM, FOR VENGEANCE
TAKING ANY DAMNED SOULS
WHO DARE CROSS
THIS UNMOVING OCEAN OF DARKNESS
Wash you clean
Bapteme eternel
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Badlands
04:32
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Lost in the badlands
Dreaming of rain
And a green grass bed
The air is hot like an iron brand
Every breath i am closer to waking up dead
The pale men that surround me
Cruel ghosts push me ever further ahead
Wish that a river would drown me
But these ghosts and their cancer
Continue to spread
Bone tired and blind
Not human in kind
Loose these shackles that bind
You wanna see me unwind
You wanna see me unwind
You wanna see me
By greedy hands
Our blood has soaked this land
By greedy hands
There’s a red road
A red red red
Red red red road
A red road will lead you home
A red red road
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She
06:08
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She
In the still of the night she sleeps
Tossing and turning
Sweat soaking the sheets
One eye open
Looks to the door
The still of the night
Has been unstilled before
She
In the heat of the day she hides
Watching and waiting
In darkness
She rides
One more grain of sand
Slips through the fingers
Of a clenching hand
One more grain of sand
He
By the cool of the stream he stands
Fighting and thriving
On grandmother’s land
He
In an orchard of green and gold
Sweating and saving
That his fruit
May grow old
One more grain of sand
Slips through the fingers
Of a clenching hand
One more grain of sand
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Kill the Indian /Yidaniluga aniyvwiya
Save the man /Yidanisdela yvwi
They said in Jesus' name /Tsisa dudosdvi unvdvnv
You children are wild /Itsiyotli itsehyatahi
We are here to save you /Otsilugi itsasdeldii
If we can /Yelii yinotsadvneha
If you do not discipline your children Nitnvsdadenelana detsadatina
They will be wild /Anehyatahi yigi
And so our braids were cut /Dogisdoyehvi
They shamed us /Gogadehotanvi
They cleaned our mouths /Tsotsiholi doginvgalvela
They hit us, they defiled us /Dogilvnilv uyo nigogvnela
How will you get to heaven /Atogvnai yiwitsilugi tsosv
Staring at the sun /itsagtosdvi nvda iga ehi
You children are wild, they said /Itsiyotli itsehyatahi unvdvnv’i
We will take your language /Otsagisi yitsiwonihisdii
You will be taught the Bible /Yitsvyeyohvga gohweli uhageda
We went to a hidden place /Ogvsgatle vhna ogedasdi
A sacred space, a secret /Wogilvkdv udelvi
We were in the mulberry trees /Kuwa detlukv otsedohvi
Here, the leaves rustle /Ahani tsugaloga dusgwanoyvgoi
They said to us: "do not forget your names /Goginosehoi tlesdi tsidotsvkewisv detsadovi
Do not forget who you are /Tsitsvkewisv getsotlisdii
Do not be ashamed." /Tlesdi yitsadehosgesdi
We find our way in darkness /Otsiwatisgoi ogedasdi ulsigvi
We whisper the words of our ancestors /Otsatonvihoi tsogigayvligei uniwonihisdi
The day shines /Iga ultisdvi
We pretend to be happy /Osda ogiyelvsvi ogatselvsoi
We give up the hunt /Dogiyosvi otsinohalidohvi
We bake new bread /Ogidii itse gadu
We still sing among the mulberry trees /Kuwa detlugv nai asi dotsinogisgoi
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Medicine Horse Tulsa, Oklahoma
Medicine Horse is the convergence of slow southern bluesy drawl with a storm of anger, joy, heart break and hope that can
only come out of the Indian Territory that is Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Vocals: Nico Williams
Guitar: Kyle Williams
Guitar: Travis Rowe
Drums: Garrett Heck
Bass: Chris West
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