DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SongToTheSun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SongToTheSun</span></a></p><p>"Our mother aches<br>Iron claws dig until she breaks<br>And she bleeds for this<br>How much is enough?</p><p>I remember listening to songs of the sun<br>For all those, who’s breath was stolen<br>Who’s future was taken away<br>Who learned too late</p><p>CHORUS:<br>And so we sing again<br>To the house of dawn<br>There are no words, no words that can right these wrongs.</p><p>This land breathes pain<br>And nothing grows<br>that doesn’t carry the trauma<br>that we’ve wept, that you sow…</p><p>CHORUS</p><p>this empire of blood and bones<br>of stolen, poisoned, homes…<br>genocide… mutilated ghosts…</p><p>fierce hearts lay buried… their struggle speaks…<br>fierce hearts lay buried… saying…<br>“leave it in the ground…”</p><p>While the mines lay abandoned – What has been done?<br>Wells poisoned… nothing has been done?<br>Cancers spread… tell me, what has been done?<br>To right these wrongs! To right these wrongs!</p><p>CHORUS</p><p>deafening the screams<br>grinding down the gears<br>you can’t hear them cause your window is closed<br>and you’ve surrendered your power to your fears</p><p>There’s a market for everything…<br>social media exists<br>so you keep on consuming…<br>it’s revolutionary chic and at least you “liked” and shared…<br>for liberation…oh what a loaded word…<br>and you’ve marched quietly along<br>and you’ve marched so complacently along</p><p>one brutal violent machine pressing against another (3x)<br>crushing all our dreams, and all we desire<br>the price is paid in blood and we know what its worth…<br>the price is paid in blood…<br>capitalism is the enemy…of mother earth. (2x)</p><p>deafening the screams<br>grinding down the gears<br>you can’t hear them cause your window closed<br>and you’ve surrendered your power to your fears</p><p>one brutal violent machine pressing against another<br>you’ve surrendered your power to your fears<br>one brutal violent machine pressing against another<br>you’ve surrendered your power to your fears</p><p>I will hold your hand<br>At the edge of this world<br>As we watch it burn to the ground</p><p>I will hold your hand<br>At the edge of the dawn<br>And laugh and wonder at the new days we’ve found</p><p>they will not suffocate this fire<br>it burns from our hearts<br>so long as we hold this inside<br>they can never take this from us</p><p>how much can you take?<br>how much can you give?<br>there is no post-apocalyptic<br>oh this is it</p><p>how much can we bleed?<br>till were up off our knees?<br>there’s no post-colonial, we live it</p><p>they will not suffocate this fire<br>it burns from our hearts<br>so long as we hold this inside<br>they can never take this from us</p><p>if this is our grave<br>such a wondrous bed we’ve been made<br>only so much we can bleed<br>so much more than we’d ever need</p><p>I will hold your hand<br>At the edge of this world<br>As we watch it burn to the ground.</p><p>Peabody‘s drag lines across the landscape<br>like militarized borders that carve this police state<br>1974 government pens wrote, “relocate”<br>divide and conquer, 14,000 and today?</p><p>We know this nightmare because it repeats<br>’till something breaks<br>An act of liberation</p><p>Yes we all know it’s the rich against the poor<br>class, race, gender, and mother earth just a resource<br>globalization is colonization and colonization is always war…</p><p>We know this nightmare because it repeats<br>’till something breaks<br>An act of liberation!</p><p>Industrial capitalist hetero-patriarchy<br>We know the story of so many manifested destinies<br>From the broken bones of broken homes and violated boarding school dreams</p><p>We know this nightmare because it repeats<br>’till something breaks<br>An act of liberation!</p><p>From Big Mountain to Palestine, relocation is genocide.<br>We stand against all wars and occupation<br>Against nationalism, against state sponsored terrorism</p><p>the free market non-profit industry<br>accountable to foundations no not community<br>paychecks for activism, for justice or just them?<br>But this ain’t no revolutionary commodity…<br>It’s an act of liberation</p><p>An act of liberation!</p><p>it’s only a matter of time<br>it’s only a question, an affirmation<br>of who we are and who we’ve have been</p><p>reconnect the dots<br>trace back the memories<br>its only a matter of time<br>until our words match our actions</p><p>CHORUS:<br>these laws, these borders, these walls, will fall<br>it’s only a matter of time, it’s only a matter of action</p><p>How much can we pretend,<br>that we’re not complicit in our silence?<br>how much longer, until these times get so desperate?</p><p>the beating in our hearts<br>a rhythm we can’t shut out<br>calling us to action, call us to action…</p><p>CHORUS</p><p>its a matter of action.</p><p>these are desperate times calling for desperate measures<br>these are desperate times calling for desperate action</p><p>its a matter of action.</p><p>Time for action</p><p>Following paths<br>so many ways to wander<br>so many ways I’ve wondered<br>always the question biting at my heel<br>sometimes its too much to feel</p><p>open hearts bleed<br>strong hearts deceived<br>where were you in this time of need?</p><p>following paths so many ways to take it on<br>so many ways we’ve lost<br>always the question expressing the real<br>sometimes its too much to feel</p><p>open hearts bleed strong hearts deceive<br>where were you in this time of need?<br>where were you?</p><p>your shadow still cast<br>all that we lived past<br>your words still linger<br>if we could peel back the time<br>uncover the wounds so they can really heal</p><p>sometimes its too much to feel</p><p>open hearts bleed strong hearts deceive<br>where were you in this time of need?<br>where were you?"</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEBhDVnzG_s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=LEBhDVnzG_</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnActOfLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnActOfLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TimeForAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeForAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ATimeForLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow 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