the groan

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(Romans 8:18-25
Luke 19:39, 40)

i've got a bone to pick in the decomposition of this cultures bed
i've got a stone to kick down a trail of tears through a thousand stories
and i've grown so quick, my roots sucking blood of the restless dead
i've got a groan so thick, i can't keep it contained inside one head

the spirits need your voices, lend your throats to the great blue wail
for the the moaning of the disappeared and all those trapped in jail
the silenced won't hold it in no more, it's a howling, mighty gale
it's a resurrected insurrection from inside the stolen shale

I've got a home down deep, we are of this earth and to her we're married
we've got to moan and weep, for the beauty's getting killed and our souls lie buried
so we've got to roam and creep all around this world til the truth is ferried
in our bones risen from sleep, for this old song is what we carry

All Creation is groaning for the children of God to be revealed
Our great mother forever birthing, our great mother forever heals
turn around all you who crucify, turn around you who rape and steal
and if you don't want to prophesy, well the rocks and the stones sure will

and they've got a tone so strong, they gonna rumble and quake until the lava comes out
and we've got to own what we have sown, if you plant the fire you gonna harvest the drought
Look what the drones are droppin down, they see everywhere but can't tell what love is about
but we're not alone against these wrongs, the land is asking us to amplify her shout!

can you hear her calling, Mama calling us home
can you hear her calling? We must join in the groan

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from The Groan, released June 6, 2017

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