<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ANCESTORS</b></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I see the crushing blow of the foot that pursues you, trying to crush you into paste for feeding its machine</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">They called you serf, peasant, trespasser on the kings land for just trying to feed your family then child laborer for their industrial machine</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and in all of these manifestations they cleave you from the memories of dancing by ancient fires singing ancient songs , dancing in scant furs wearing deer antlers while the songs of mother gaia worked their way from the soles of your feet, through your groin up your spine through your heart chakra and out your throat, in guttural screams and cries and song and primal howls,</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">All lost to the fires of Inquisition</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> where they burned and tortured you just for trying to remember that you were child of earth</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Where they further talked to you about”original sin” not original blessing but original sin, where just being born makes you a criminal</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Always the boot, always the crushing boot, as they sent you into the mines, you had to go to keep your family from starving As they preached to you their dark fantasy of eternal damnation, with a cunning Satan always trying to trick you into his trap of fire and eternal misery</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">And then they cast you out, across great oceans to “new” worlds foot soldiers in their endless war of domination and exploitation, fleeing your own poverty and spiritual decimation to inflict it upon others</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">well, my beloved ancestors,after all that you may not have known how to live, but you did know how to survive, for thisI thank you, and your endurance sings in my blood.</span></div></body></html>