Frank Waln - AbOriginal lyrics

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Frank Waln - AbOriginal lyrics

Pickup Look at all around look around at the whole thing If your skin is brown then you're down for the old pain Look at all around look around at the whole thing If your skin is brown then you're down for the old pain Verse 1 Young boy I'm leaving home (all alone) On the rez I grew up unknown (with my stone) The world said I couldn't be king (they disown) But in the city I can see a throne Feeling like/ the king of the dammed in a kingdom of sand Building castles as my freedom expand Just to watch them fall down as the tides roll in I've never seen a storm come with idle wind And so I'm Idle No More rap the plight of the poor Cuz educated warriors are vital to war And we battling oppression/ got me stressing Wondering if I'll ever learn my lesson Cuz I can't let me people go (oh no) And I can't let my weakness show (You'll never know) Even when I'm hopeless and I pitiful I keep going knowing that I'm AB Original Chorus A I got this AB Original soul/ I got this AB Original flow I got this pain that I can't shake/ ties to my people I can't break Got this history in my blood/ got my tribe that shows me love So when I rise/ you rise/ come on let's rise like Verse 2 It's been months since I've seen a Native/ It's messing with my creative/Approach/ It's got me jaded/ isolated No one understands me like my people/ these white kids don't know my struggle I ain't equal in their eyes and their intolerance brings me troubles/ I'm not/ Their noble savage/ doing damage/ to their perception of who I am Self-destruct when I self-construct my own plan/ of my identity/ from their affinity To raping culture/ they rape the land/ shame an NDN just to save the man But this NDN never dies/ dies dies dies/ RISE Chorus A I got this AB Original soul/ I got this AB Original flow I got this pain that I can't shake/ ties to my people I can't break Got this history in my blood/ got my tribe that shows me love So when I rise/ you rise/ come on let's rise like Transition bridge I got those reservation blues Reservation blues I got those reservation blues Reservation blues I got those reservation blues Reservation blues Pickup Look at all around look around at the whole thing If your skin is brown then you're down for the old pain Look at all around look around at the whole thing If your skin is brown then you're down for the old pain Verse 3 It's 2013 and our chiefs are all shot/ digital blankets give spiritual smallpox Certain revelations arise and my path becomes as clear as reservation skies/and I/ Could use a little hope sometimes cuz I was dead broke when I wrote this rhyme So faith in myself is what I supposed to find Play cultural red rover and I broke the line I blew right past it/ raps spew like acid Mind of an activist Lakota Sioux a**a**in Who mastered Hip Hop to fight his battles Saddle up this beat and let my rhymes unravel (yeah) (Hoka) Call your cavalry because I leave stereotypes as casualties (yeah) (Hoka) Better call your cavalry because I leave all your doubts as casualties Bridge I don't see no reservations now/ I'm trying to get up out of here I don't need somebody to tell me how/ I'm supposed to live my life in fear Chorus B These borders can't hold me back (Heca) Can't hold me back These borders can't hold me back (Heca) can't hold me back Pickup 2 If you a red man/ you a dead man “Better off on the rez” what they said man “You a mascot/ Just a ghost now Just a thing that I wear up on my clothes now” Pickup Look at all around look around at the whole thing If your skin is brown then you're down for the old pain Look at all around look around at the whole thing If your skin is brown then you're down for the old pain Look at all around look around at the whole thing If your skin is brown then you're down for the old pain Look at all around look around at the whole thing If your skin is brown then you're down for the old pain