Frank Waln - 7 lyrics

[Intro: Tanaya Winder] Always start with you Alive and well, and not me I'd gladly give up every poem I have spoken Have my mouth call back each and every one of them From your ears Back into my pen's failed attempts at trying to put back The splintered pieces of our hearts Our hearts Our hearts Staring at a blank page Wishing we could begin again [Verse 1: Frank Waln] Thousands of warriors will come rushing in Our ancestors waged war with the government In the spirit of Spotted Tail and John Trudell This is spiritual awakening They feed us lies but we won't take them in Let us ride on the lands where our ancestors died Breathing life into our cultures they said were petrified They tell a history that our peoples don't recognize The US government should be charged with genocide Spitting rhymes in a time of blood quantum and suicide We survived staying strong all those times we should've died I confess, I'm depressed Sometimes I can't take the stress Living is a test, distressed up in the wild west My fam suffers The land suffers I hate the silence I hate statistics I hate the prisons I hate the violence I hate these politicians making the wrong decisions I hate these men that inflict this violence upon our women They hate to see us rise We're on their TVs man Remind these settlers that they're up on treaty land I did this with my music A CD in my hand A microphone in the other now watch me take a stand [Chorus] This is sound of a Nation rising A generation with a vision We're tired of our people dying 7th generation we have risen, we have risen yeah This is sound of a Nation rising A generation with a vision We hear our Mother Earth crying 7th generation we have risen, we have risen yeah [Bridge] This system try to hold us down, it hold us down You forced our cultures underground, underground But you ain't stopping no one now, no one now We're stronger and we know it now, we know it now [Verse 2] I ghost dance over drums My music speaks to the young I give my heart for the people The revolution's begun We're standing stronger than ever when history weighs a ton I'm giving thanks to Creator and suffering with the sun My mother says I'm her son My people say I'm the one My microphone It inspire I fire it like a gun Higher into you privilege conspiring with the spirits My environment require my lyrics Be the exhibit of genius that has a plan My allegiance is with the land my people agreed to care for Therefore I'm gonna make a stand My freedom is nonexistent convenient to uncle sam They're colonizing our minds We're compromising their plans Our knowledge lives in the land The answers live in our youth The cancers live in our elders I'm trying to see the truth My brothers and sister suffer while people silence our voices You hold our mouths shut then tell us that we are voiceless f** that you don't listen Privilege is your tradition Our people in your prisons Our sisters end up missing I petition my position to live in conditions that k** my people Now feel my vision [Chorus] This is sound of a Nation rising A generation with a vision We're tired of our people dying 7th generation we have risen, we have risen yeah This is sound of a Nation rising A generation with a vision We hear our Mother Earth crying 7th generation we have risen, we have risen yeah [Outro: Tanaya Winder] Battles wouldn't end in bloodshed But instead a ride off into a sun rising With warriors always returning from war Warriors always returning from war [Bridge: Frank Waln 3x] This system try to hold us down, it hold us down You forced our cultures underground, underground But you ain't stopping no one now, no one now We're stronger and we know it now, we know it now