“Government Voices”

[nightchant (deleted)]

I was listening to Robbie Robertson's album, "Contact From The Underworld OF REDBOY" & I felt these songs in my heart & so I found these words in my archives. Hope you all like it.

“Government Voices

You forcibly take me from my home
And send me to some place that is unknown
You take my cloths and cut off my hair
And you laugh at me without a care
Now you say I am no longer Indian and you make feel so naked
My language and tradition you try to force me to forsake it
You say look around because now Im on the clock
Now that Im part of your government stock
Stand in line, dont you move, and dont you look around
Because you wont be able to choose your own ground
You say if I refuse your rules
Im gonna wind up black and blue
You say I am a savage
Now you say its time to be just like you
Civilized and all that, so my soul you can ravage
You send me miles away from my home
To closed spaces where I can no longer roam
I do not shed a tear for me and you
Because it is not what I choose to do
Listen you say go ahead and abide
Theres lots of room for me inside
They say dont fritter and waste your mind
They say I can do without because they control my time
They say go ahead and run
Try to catch the setting sun
Soon the thunderclouds will open up and burst
In the distance my heart and soul will thirst
I hear the shouts but I cannot hear
Maybe its the fatal attraction I fear
I cant keep my mind from feeling the circling sky
I wish I could learn to fly
For my land you lie and deceive
Like a black widow spider you will weave
Try to educate me to love your cash
Get a good job and make lots of stash
Hoping I will want that slice of American pie
So I can sell out to all your lies
For my nation and my home I wont disown
I wont negotiate so rip my flesh from my bones
Urban life is my battleground
And as I look around
All that you touch is full of regret
In my sorrows I just want to forget
Because in this world you do not want to share
No longer can I just stand and stare
You think Im a vision of empty red
Think again because this vision isnt dead

Seeyouma
01/03/04

[rebelyell08_PREV (deleted)]

`Yeah, I can see it now
the distant red neon shivered in the heat
I was feeling like a stranger in a strange land.....
God, it was too hot to sleep
So I followed the sound of a jukebox comin' from up the levee
All of a sudden I could hear someone whistlin' from right behind me
I turned around and she said "why do you always end up down at Nicks Cafe?"
I said "uh..I dont know the wind just kinda pushed me this way."
And she said, "Hang the rich."

Catch the blue train
places never been before
you can find me somewhere down the crazy river
somewhere down the crazy river..

Robbie Robertson

19eightysomething

[squinto (deleted)]

`Wow Robbie Robertson great writer and in one of the all time great groups The Band..Part Native, part Jewish and even though he writes great lyrics I believe he does not live in the past and he enjoys all the money he has made in the white mans world..
But hey what do I know ..
just Making a Noise

[nightchant (deleted)]

`we all enjoy our fruits of what we percieve. he's a great writer & he stands for what he believes in. but we're all "Twisted" right?

[squinto (deleted)]

`I don't know if I can answer your question, but I can answer only for myself. I am not twisted just a woman of the human race trying to live in a world where everyone hates someone. I didn't learn to dislike anyone for the color of their skin. I also live in the now not what has happened in the past. Doesn't mean I don't know what has happened just know I can not go back in time and change anything so I refuse to live life being mad at the world..

[rebelyell08_PREV (deleted)]

`Maybe it's that "part Jewish" in him that enables him to enjoy the money he has made in the white mans world???huh...huh....

Shalom!

[loveworks13]

`I like those words nightchant