The Great Quilt
The Great Quilt • A Special Unreleased Track • by Kembwe
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE MP3 of THE GREAT QUILT FOR FREEClick Read More to View LyricsLyrics Written in 2007 - Song recorded in 2008
Lyrics:
The Great Quiltby Wahkeena Sitka Our souls are the fabric of woven memoryWeaving dreams into the hemlinesof the storiesthat skirt our anklesWhere our feet tip-toe through meadowswhere once a flock of thunder buffalolaid waste to an ocean of sweetgrass standingbeneath the grey sky loomingover the warp and weftof a tribe and its landBurying their hearts in ashes& smoke of a mass graveStinking and rottinglike two thousand corpsesSpread out like pick up sticksthat once picked up their villages;tipi poles, blankets & horses -moving yet againto another barren landwhere children die of starvation,typhoid or forced Christian education -to become what we are now..A people without memories -walking amnesiacs -a plague of zombie locusts.Without a land our ancestors cherishedWithout stories of myth & meaningWithout dreams because we can't sleep -a million zombie insomniacsWho never take responsibilityfor the hordes of lives stripped shortof purpose, community, myth & ancestral land. We are the souls enslaved by four wallsfour walls per personenthroned in our solitudeForgetting our wounded kneesand crippled wrists..Buying the myth of greedSeduced by unquenchable thirst of more,enslaved by accumulation..Entombed in acculturated myths of self-glorification,ego-pampering, intoxicated snacking..Lacking who we are… Lacking who we are,Lacking wholenessWe need more distractionsto remind us of what we don't own:our Power Our Power to LoveOur Power to Care for CommunityOur Power to CHERISH THE LANDlike our ancestors once did..To cherish the Life Force LandThe blood that runs in our veins landthe water and earth in our hearts land,that entire tribal nations fought to cherishBecause they worshipped that which nourished them.The Life Force SpiritThat which Nourished them..The Life Force SpiritThat which Unites all things,Binds all things in realityin a webwork of woven threads..Filaments of stars, sinews of sunlight,Yarn of Stone, Hair of Water,Dyes of Cedar and Oak.Song of You & I & Every Friend The magic maker sits loomingover time & spaceweaving memories, stories & songsinto the essence of every souland We are a Patchwork QuiltSewn together by Pachamama's breath…And each patch in the Great Quiltis our Heart SongDyed with the colour of our essenceSharing the Splendor of our Dancing ThreadSewn into the edges of our neighborsOur Heart spills overinto the perimeter of our community We are the Tribe Renewed by OUR LOVEWalking the Pilgrimage routeBack to the LandWhere our children will cherishThe ecosystem quiltWe are all wrapped up in;Sharing Pachamama