1. |
She Calls Me
03:56
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I was born here, its where I belong
My bloodline sings, brings new songs
I’m rooted down but I can’t stay too long
Sometimes I need to disappear, man it's hard living ‘round here
This land, calls me home again
Calls me home again, she calls me home again
This land, calls me home again
Calls me home again, she calls me home again
Calls me home again
Tonight I want to know what it’s like
To walk through the world, with nothing to fight
To sleep in peace and wake in the light
I’m feeling so alive, keep reaching for that good life
This land, calls me home again
Calls me home again, she calls me home again
This land, calls me home again
Calls me home again, she calls me home again
Calls me home again
Ooo
She knows my name
She knows where who I am
And when I’m lost
She calls me home again
Calls me home again
She calls me home again
This land
Calls me home again
This land
She calls me home again
This land
Calls me home again
Calls me home again
Calls me home again
Calls me home again
Calls me home again
Calls me home again
She calls me home again
Calls me home again
This land, calls me home again
Calls me home again, she calls me home again
This land, calls me home again
Calls me home again, she calls me home again
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2. |
Tall Grass
03:54
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I don't wanna go back to the city
I don't wanna go
I don't wanna go back to the city
I don't wanna go
Lay me down in the tall grass, let me be
Lay me down and let the moon have her way with m
Hey ya, hey ya
I don't wanna go back to the concrete
I don't wanna go
I don't wanna go back to the concrete
I don't wanna go
Lay me down in the tall grass, let me be
Lay me down and let the wind have his way with me
Hey ya, hey ya
Lay me down in the tall grass, let me be
Lay me down and let the wind have his way with me
Hey ya, hey ya
I don't wanna go back to the hustle
I don't wanna go
I don't wanna go back to the hustle
I don't wanna go
Lay me down in the tall grass, let me be
Lay me down and let the rain wash over me
Lay me down in the tall grass, let me be
Lay me down and let the storm have his way
Hey ya, hey ya, hey ya
Hey ya
Hey ya, hey ya, hey ya
Hey ya, hey ya, hey ya
She said walk gently (hey ya)
Walk gently (hey ya)
Into the wide open spaces (hey ya)
As far as you can see (hey ya, hey ya, hey ya)
She said go to the places (hey ya)
That you can breathe and I stood with the Old Ones (hey ya)
Who dreamed this life in me
And listened (hey ya) for her voice (hey ya)
In the stillness of the trees (hey ya)
Saying walk gently (hey ya, hey ya)
And we fight (hey ya) and resist for the simple right to be (hey ya)
To stand with the land and dance in ceremony (hey ya)
...and this is what freedom means to me (hey ya)
This is what (hey ya) freedom (hey ya) means to me (hey ya)
How can you be free if I’m not free
How can you be free if I’m not free
How can we be free
I don't wanna go back (aah, ah, ah) to the city
I don't (don’t) wanna go
I don't wanna go back (aah, ah, ah) to the city
I don't (no) wanna go no
I don't wanna go back (aah, ah, ah) to the city no
I don't (don’t) wanna go
I don't wanna go back (aah, ah, ah) to the city
I (no) don’t wanna go, no
(aah, ah, ah, no)
This is what freedom means
(aah, ah, ah, ah)
This is what freedom means
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3. |
The Healer
03:52
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No
Ooo
I started to listen
And I found that there was more to this story
Nah, nah
No more, no more struggling
No more, no more suffering
No more, no more struggling
No more, no more suffering
You got to live it to know it
Wounds we cannot see
Land mines, headlines, pipelines
So many ways to bleed
What’s contained
In the blood of these veins
The strength and the scars
The love and the pain
Someday
(Nah, na, na, na, na, nah, nah)
It’ll be alright
Yea someday, we’ll be free from the fight
Oh, someday
I had to say goodbye again
Remember how to pray
Another brother down
Another light gone dark today
I won’t bury him in silence
...but lift him in song
His stories are mishkiki
To carry on, and on, and on
So fuck the oppression
The shame and the hate
Fuck the addiction, the sorrow
...and the way this heart aches
Someday
(Nah, na, na, na, na, nah, nah)
It’ll be alright
Ya someday
We’ll be free from the fight
Someday
It’ll be alright
Ya someday
We’ll be free from the fight
No more, no more struggling
No more, no more suffering
No more, no more struggling
No more, no more suffering
No more, no more struggling
No more, no more suffering
No more, no more struggling
No more, no more suffering
In these hard times
Ground’s uneven beneath my feet
One foot on the earth
The other on concrete
So we fight harder, love stronger
We’re the healers, the medicine
Joy is how we resist
We’ll dream in our language again
Ohh, oh, oh, oh
Someday
(Nah, na, na, na, na, nah, nah)
It’ll be alright
Ya someday
We’ll be free from the fight, oh
Someday
It’ll be alright
Someday
We’ll be free, we’ll be free
Someday we’ll be free
Will be free
We’ll be free from the fight, oh
Someday we’ll be free
Until that day
You know we will fight, we will fight
No more, no more struggling
No more, no more suffering (nah, nah)
No more, no more struggling
No more, no more suffering
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4. |
SKODEN
03:33
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Can’t slow down
Can’t sit still
Can I get some peace of mind
Can’t slow down
Can’t sit still
Can I get some peace of mind
The only way
We ever made a change
Was to be brave
...and unrestrained
Leading with our hearts
Not with our brains
Fear will be our courage now
Hope will be our strength
Can’t slow down
Can’t sit still
Can I get som e peace of mind...
(Ahh,oh, oh, oh)
Stand up, step up
Or get out of the way
Sit down
If you’ve got nothing to say
We’ve gotta move baby, move baby
Move baby move
Stand up, step up
Or get out of the way
Ohh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ohh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I can’t understand
It’s irrefutable
It carries on
Business as usual
11 years to change the course
3600 days
If we’re not working it
Then we’re in the way
(We’re in the way)
Stand up, step up
Or get out of the way
Sit down
If you’ve got nothing to say
We’ve gotta move baby, move baby
Move baby move
Stand up, step up
Or get out of the way
Ohh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ohh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ohh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ohh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Lost generations living in fear
Failed machines, with broken gears
Why put up with this for all these years
Speak up your truth now, for all to hear
Stand up, step up
Or get out of the way
Sit down
If you got nothing to say
We’ve gotta move baby, move baby
Small revolutions baby
(Baby)
Stand up
SKODEN
Or get out of the way
(Stop and get right out of the way)
Move baby, move baby
Small revolutions baby
Move baby, move baby
Too much to lose now love
(Move baby, move baby)
We’ve gotta move
I said
We’ve gotta move
I said
Move baby, too much to lose now oh
(Too much to lose now love)
Can’t slow down
(Ohh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
I can’t sit still
(Ohh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Can I get some peace of mind
Can’t slow down
(Ohh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Can’t sit still
Can I get some peace of mind
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5. |
Light Me Up
02:59
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No one knows what it’s like to love you
No one knows the way you say my name
...and every day we still discover
You keep the darkness at bay
Strike me like a match
Light me up like you do
Let the fire catch
I burn the brightest for you
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do, ooo
No one knows how you’re bending gravity
(Oh, ohh)
No one knows the revolutions of our love
From binary stars to singularities
This moon shines for you love
Strike me like a match
Light me up like you do
Let the fire catch
I burn the brightest for you
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do
You light me, you light me
You light me up
You light me, you light me
You light me up
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do
Strike me like a match
Light me up like you do
Let the fire catch
I burn the brightest for you
(You)
Strike me like a match
Light me up like you do
Let the fire catch
I burn the brightest for you
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do
Light me up like you do
Light me up
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6. |
Cut My Hair
04:56
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Hmm, mmm, mmm
Hmm, mmm, mmm, mmm
Hmm, mmm, mmm
Hmm, mmm, mmm, mmm
Ohh, uh, ahh
Uh, ahh, ah, ahh
Ohh, uh, ahh
Uh, ahh, ah, ahh
When they cut my hair
I said they’re tryin’ to cut down my roots
Oh when they cut my hair
I said they’re tryin’ to cut down my roots
Won’t even let me speak my words
Ahh, they’re trying to take that too
Oh when they sent me away now
Oh they sent me like a butchered up cow
Woah I said when they sent me away
I said they sent me like a butchered up cow
Ahh I said a butchered up...—a cow
Well they be eatin’ me alive
From the inside out, ehh
Ohh, uh, ahh
Uh, ahh, ah, ahh
Ohh, uh, ahh
Uh, ahh, ah, ahh
Well I’m gonna hit that road now, oh and flag...
Flag me down a ride
I’m gonna hit that road and flag me down, and flag me down a
ride
Flag me down a ride
Oh and if no one gonna pick me up now
Gonna take these walkin’ blues and fly
(Fly)
I wanna fly...
Ahhh...
Ooo...
When they cut my hair
(Cut my hair)
I said they’re trying to cut down my roots
(My roots) Roots...ahh (my roots) roots
Oh when they, when they...cut my hair (cut my hair) now
I said they’re trying
(my roots, my roots, my roots)
To cut my roots now
You can cut down a tree
But there’s still Mishkiki
There's still Mishkiki
...still medicine at the roots
Ohh, uh, ahh
Uh, ahh, ah, ahh-oo
Ohh, uh, ahh
Yeah, ahh, ah, ahh
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7. |
No Breaking
03:46
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Oh love, oh love
Don’t let me down
Don’t let me down
Oh heart, oh heart
No breaking now
No breaking now
In the quiet hours
When I’m alone
I feel your heart
Drum with my own
I’ll be your North Star
When the sky’s unknown
I can be your courage
Until you find me home
Sometimes when the light leaves
We forget the sun
And then the darkness turns ’til the...
Stars come undone
Oh love, oh love
Don’t let me down
Don’t let me down
Oh heart, oh heart
No breaking now
No breaking now
In waking dreams
I listen for you
Each lift of dawn
You’re the light I’m drawn to
I’m on your side
I stand and fall for you
I’ll be your refuge
Until we breakthrough...ahh...oh
Oh love, oh love
Don’t let me down
Don’t let me down
Oh heart, oh heart
No breaking now
No breaking now
I will keep the peace
(Keep the peace)
...and I will shelter you
(I will shelter)
I’ll open my arms
(Open my arms)
(Ooo...)
My love will surround you
I will keep the peace
(Keep the peace)
...and I will protect you
I laid down my arms
(Lay down my arms)
But I’ll fight if I have to
(Fight if I have to)
Oh love, oh love
Don’t let me down
Don’t let me down
Oh heart, oh heart
No breaking now
No breaking now
Oh love, oh love
Don’t let me down
Don’t let me down
Oh heart, oh heart
No breaking now
No breaking now
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8. |
AK47
03:58
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Heyy...
Ohhh, ohh...
I wish I could load, love into a gun
(Wish I could load)
Peace into a gun, hope into a gun
Well I load up my AK47
...and fire, fire, fire
For everyone, everyone
Fire, fire, fire
Everyone, everyone
Fire for the fighters on the front line
Fire for the man killing on his mind
Fire for the brothers doing hard time
Fire for the daughters that we cannot find
I took the pin from the grenade
War be afraid, oppression be afraid
Someone call out for the light brigade
Fire, fire, fire
A sacred fire is made
Fire, fire, fire
A sacred fire is made
Fire for the fighters on the front line
Fire for the man killing on his mind
Fire for the brothers doing hard time
Fire for the daughters that we cannot find
Fire for the fighters on the front line
Fire for the man killing on his mind
Fire for the brothers doing hard time
Fire for the daughters that we cannot find
Ohhh..
Its time to bring out the big guns
(The big guns)
Lock and load love, lock and load your weapons
I’d load up my AK47
...and fire, fire, fire
For everyone
Fire, fire, fire
For everyone
Ohhh...
Fire for the fighters on the front line
Fire for the man killing on his mind
Fire for the brothers doing hard time
Fire for the daughters that we cannot find
Fire for the takers of the innocent
Fire for the healers and the medicines
Fire will rise in all of us
When we’re one we’re dangerous
Nizoogide’e e
Nizoogide’e de’e
Nizoogide’e e
Nizoogide’e de’e
Nizoogide’e e
Nizoogide’e de’e
Nizoogide’e e
Nizoogide’e de’e
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9. |
Sweetwater
05:40
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Ahh, ah...
I am bursting out
of ancient clouds
To the watershed
Overflowing now
from glacial clouds
To the oceans of your bed
We are floating out...
Salt water lakes
Like waves, like waves
(Waves)
Our bodies break
Like waves, like waves
(Waves)
Our bodies break
And we rise together
Fall together
Sweetwater flowing
As we move together
And we rise together
Fall together
Sweetwater flowing
As we move
Ooo...
Flash floods rise
from river skies
To the watershed baby, the watershed
Spring dreams
And rushing streams
To the oceans of your bed
The high water marks
(Ahh...)
Our tides do make
Like waves, (waves) like waves (waves)
Our bodies break
Like waves, (waves) like waves (waves)
Our bodies break
And we rise together
Fall together
Sweetwater flowing
As we move together
...and we rise together
Fall together
Sweetwater flowing
As we move
Make new ceremonies
On the shores of the sea
Wash it down, wash it down
Where wounds used to be
And we rise together
(Ooo, rise together)
And fall together (fall together)
Sweetwater flowing
As we move together
And we rise together
And we fall together
Sweetwater flowing as we move
Sweetwater flowing
As we move
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Ishkōdé Records is a new Indigenous and women-owned label created to foster and amplify Indigenous voices. Ishkōdé Records arrives to amplify and advocate for Indigenous artists, songs and stories in the commercial music landscape. Led by artists, organizers and activists Anishinaabekwe Shoshona Kish and solo artist Métis Amanda Rheaume, The word Ishkōdé means fire in Anishinaabemowin. ... more
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