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[2015] It Takes Two To Ghost Dance
I've traveled this trail of tears
so many times before
always ending with a crying shaman
left behind holding the bag
waving a white flag
Here I am, not as lawman, just a layman
giving you a taste of your own medicine
Man, do you hear what I'm sayin'?
when I say that
Apache servers make for poor spirit horses
charging flaming buffalo wing style across
battlefield littered with bull shitters impaled
by their own disdain dipped arrows scrolled
dulled keyboard warrior knives they wield
while you fancy yourself a Sitting Bull
with a flowing, feathered, black mane
on forum carpet bombing runs
with a host of grenade renegades
parading the pain of expired decades
in tipped over tee-pee discourse
voice hoarse from course correcting
wrong way history
Once strong, Five Hundred Nations
became divided, collided with Fate
no longer within their conscious control
now remnants with revenants haunting
ragtag generations to this very day
fashioning clay of impressionable soul
Talking about you
He With Ego Burning Like Sun
turning your war painted cheek to the One
becoming numb, blind, deaf to His song
donning a hand me down headdress
conning yourself, perpetuating, prolonging
The Long Darkness
Grasping, stretching, reaching for you
the shadowy fingers of the Wendigo
Vision of blood splattering across the snow
lingers
If only you would to let go
If only you could
empty your heart of contempt
for the White Man in fixation
upon an unsettled score
Spins 'round, Government entity
nothin more than a revolving door
Dead and buried in the ground
masters and their minions
who committed atrocity
overlooked in your ignorance
head preoccupied with chants
so oblivious to the obvious
It takes two to Ghost Dance
It takes two to Ghost Dance
It takes two to Ghost Dance
It only takes one to Hate
A state of mind
Fate
commiserate with your own kind
Live out your days on reservation
Dumb, deaf and blind
in larger paradise Great Spirit designed
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