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Life On Reservation
The Reservation is dry of everything except alcohol
But then again there’s not much else to drink after all
The White Man’s poison course through our veins
We were once wild stallions, but now ruled by the reins
Keepers and maintainers of the Great Plains
But now it’s ashes, nothing remains
Nothing remains besides my peoples’ pain
As we were ripped from our home domain
The white men put liquor stores on every corner
Alcohol, the poison which kills, and makes us the mourners
Our tears salt the Earth, our blood colors the sand
On the Earth that is no man’s land
We’re so tired of burying our family and our friends
They’re dying of unjust causes, is there really no end
It’s like the White Men put alcohol on every block on purpose
Most Natives rely on social service
My people are a dying breed
Our Mother Earth and our Father Sun grieve as we bleed
Young children escape through the use of weed
We would beg but no one listens to our plead
No one helps, and this life is messing with our seed
This way of life makes it harder to succeed
Reliance on the government makes it hard to get what we need
But in the end it's our cries, no one will heed
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