John Trudell - Look at us
At times they where kind They where polite in their sophistication Smiling but never too loudly Acting in civilized manner an illusion of gentleness always fighting to get their way While the people see the people know the people wait the people say The closing of your doors will never shut us out The closing of your doors can only shut you in We know the predator We see them feed on us We are aware to starve the beast is our destiny At times they where kind they where polite But never honest
We see your techno logical society devour you before your very eyes we hear your anguished cries exalting greed through progress while you seek material advances the sound of flowers dying carry messages through the wind trying to tell you about balance and your safety But your minds are chained to your machines and the strings dangling from your puppeteers hands turning you, twisting you into forms and confusions beyond your control Your mind for a job your mind for a t.v. your mind for a hair dryer your mind for consumption with your atom bombs your material bombs your drug bombs your racial bombs your class bombs your sexist bombs your ageist bombs Devastating your natural shelters making you homeless on earth chasing you into illusions fooling you, making you pretend you can run away from the ravishing of your spirit While the sound of flowers dying carry messages through the wind trying to tell you about balance and your safety.
Trying to isolate us in a dimension called loneliness leading us into the trap believe in their power but not in ourselves piling us with guilt always taking the blame greed chasing out the balance trying to isolate us in a dimension called loneliness economic deities seizing power through illusions created armies are justified class systems are democracy god listens to warmongers prayers tyranny is here divide and conquer v trying to isolate us in a dimension called loneliness greed a parent insecurity the happiness companion genocide conceived in sophistication tech no logic material civilization a rationalization replacing a way to live trying to isolate us in a dimension called loneliness
To God We hope you don’t mind But we would like to talk to you There are som things we need to straighten out It’s about these christians They claim to be from your nation But man you chould see the things you do All the time blaiming it on you Manifest destiny Genocide Maximased profite Sterilisation Raping the earth lying Taking more than they need In all the forms of their greed We ask them why they say it’s Gods will Damned God they make it so hard Remember Jesus Would you send him back to them tell them not to kill him rather they should listen Stop abusing his name and yours We do not mean to be disrespectful but you know how it is Our people have their own ways Never even heard of you until not long ago Your represententatives spoke magnificent words of you which we where willing to believe But from the way they acted we know we and you where being decieved We don’t mean you and your christian children any bad But you came to take all we had We have not seen you but we have heard so much It is time for you to decide what life is worth We already remember but maybe you forgot
Look at us, we are of Earth and Water Look at them, it is the same Look at us, we are suffering all these years Look at them, they are connected. Look at us, we are in pain Look at them, surprised at our anger Look at us, we are struggling to survive Look at them, expecting sorrow be benign Look at us, we were the ones called pagan Look at them, on their arrival Look at us, we are called subversive Look at them, descending from name callers Look at us, we wept sadly in the long dark Look at them, hiding in tech no logic light Look at us, we buried the generations Look at them, inventing the body count Look at us, we are older than America Look at them, chasing a fountain of youth Look at us, we are embracing Earth Look at them, clutching today Look at us, we are living in the generations Look at them, existing in jobs and debts Look at us, we have escaped many times Look at them, they cannot remember Look at us, we are healing Look at them, their medicine is patented Look at us, we are trying Look at them, what are they doing Look at us, we are children of Earth Look at them, who are they?
