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I am Lakota |
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Lakota, looking at money man |
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Diggin' the deadly quotas |
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Out of balance, out of hand |
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We want the land |
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Lay down the reeking ore |
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Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees? |
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Everywhere you touch the earth she's sore |
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Every time you skin her all things weep |
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Your money mocks us |
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Restitution what good can it do? |
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Kenneled in metered boxes |
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Red dogs in debt to you |
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I am Lakota |
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Lakota, fighting among ourselves |
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All we can say with one whole heart |
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Is we won't sell, no we'll never sell |
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We want the land |
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The lonely coyote calls |
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In the woodlands footprints of the deer |
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In the barrooms poor drunk bastard falls |
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In the courtrooms deaf ears sixty years |
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You think we're sleeping but |
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Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars |
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We have seen the trampled rainbows |
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In the smoke of cars |
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I am Lakota |
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Brave |
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Sun pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Broken |
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Moon pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Grave |
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Shadows stretching |
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Lakota |
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Oh, pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Weak |
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Grass pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Faithful |
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Rocks pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Meek |
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Standing water |
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Lakota |
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Oh, pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Lakota, standing on sacred land |
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We never sold these black hills |
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To the missile-heads, to the power plants |
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We want the land |
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The bullet and the fence broke Lakota |
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The black coats and the booze broke Lakota |
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Courts that circumvent choke Lakota |
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Nothing left to lose |
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Tell me grandfather |
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You spoke the fur and feather tongues |
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Do you hear the whimpering waters |
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When the tractors come? |
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I am Lakota |
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Brave |
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Sun pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Broken |
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Moon pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Grave |
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Shadows stretching |
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Lakota |
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Oh, pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Weak |
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Grass pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Faithful |
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Rocks pity me |
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I am Lakota |
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Meek |
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Standing water |
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Lakota |
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Oh, pity me |
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Sun pity me |
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Mother Earth |
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Mother |
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Moon pity me |
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Father sky |
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Father |
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Shadows |
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Stretching on the forest floor |
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Mother Earth |
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Oh, pity me |
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Father sky |
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Father |
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Grass pity me |
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Mother Earth |
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Mother |
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Rocks pity me |
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Father sky |
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Father |
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Water |
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Standing in a waken manner |
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Mother Earth |
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Oh, pity me |
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Father sky |
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Father |
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Sun pity me |
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Mother Earth |
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Mother |
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Moon pity me |
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Father sky |
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Father |
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Shadows |
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Stretching on the forest floor |
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Mother Earth |
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Oh, pity me |
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Father sky |
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Father |
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Grass pity me |
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Mother Earth |
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Mother |
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Rocks pity me |
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Father sky |
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Father |