Was a good day to die but we lived through it…
still we play with fire… Cause we sip fluid /
That kills everything it touches… pain included…
But there are other ways to do it I’m staying in tune with //
To get a moose you gotta go where the moose go...
5 day ride up the river to where the spruce low /
Currents got you burning gas fast while you move slow...
Quick with the steel like Val Kill in Tombstone //
They don’t want to let my truth speak… Muzzle Me
til I can’t breathe… But roots deep tunnel through the
red soil… Rise and I cruise creeks… Strong as a
musko… Cause I eat moose meat //
This is for my rez natives...
That rock braids and my dog faced head shavers /
Keeping the feathers faded so yea see em right...
Been in a better place but still we’ll eat tonight //
Tkrue knowledge is knowing where all the fish are…
Tobacco offering… Smoking them like a cigar /
This is an abominable system we live in so I’m
Sliding right on top of the snow… Slick like a nigik //

500 years weve been shot in these streets…
Throwing water on the fire but it’s not going to cease /
Til we get our land back… From the swamps we will creep…
We will build our own future with the knowledge we keep //
For 500 years they’ve been chopping our trees...
Damning our rivers and robbing our streams /
Of thought… What they’ve taught? It is not what it seems…
Time to get up… Time to stop the machine //

I was taught to always treat a gun like it’s loaded…
I was the one sitting in the front of the boat with /
My eyes on the shore lines... Huntin while coastin…
No mud on my scope, man… The son of a boatman //
The James Bay coast... Yea I come from the Lowlands...
Underground flow… I am Covered and cloaked in the /
Land... They said we can’t sweat… Said we can’t sun
dance… Cause they fear what they don’t understand //
The beast is brutal and he’s cruising through the streets…
A poodle without his piece… See’s you like you’re on his leash /
But you been out in the trees with the bears and wolves…
Walk that bridge fearless… Ain’t scared of trolls //
As I drive from Thunder Bay to the Alligator State I can
Still hear the chains as they rattle like a snake /
I can taste the venom injected into the steak…
We’ll have beef as long as there’s cattle on the range //
But Sagabon a goose and watch me salivate and shake…
Nemeshtek for the road in can from up the bay /
I hit em with the truth… They can’t handle the “tabway”...
I never did it for the juice it’s just happening that way //
Don’t let anybody tell you what you can or can’t do…
Your path ain’t paved… It’s a river that moves /
Canoes of birch bark and tamarack roots…
With bullet holes patched with sap from black spruce //

500 years weve been shot in these streets…
Throwing water on the fire but it’s not going to cease /
Til we get our land back… From the swamps we will creep…
We will build our own future with the knowledge we keep //
For 500 years they’ve been chopping our trees...
Damning our rivers and robbing our streams /
Of thought… What they’ve taught? It is not what it seems…
Time to get up… Time to stop the machine //

For 500 years they’ve been chopping our trees...
(For 500 years they’ve been chopping our trees)
Damning our rivers and robbing our streams…
(Damning our rivers and robbing our streams)
Of thought… What they’ve taught? It is not what it seems…
(Of thought… What they’ve taught? It is not what it seems)
Time to get up… Time to stop the machine…
(Time to get up… Time to stop the machine)

I can’t tell the difference between capitalism and cannibalism…
That’s cause there’s no difference between capitalism and cannibalism…
I can’t tell the difference between capitalism and cannibalism…
That’s cause there’s no difference between capitalism and cannibalism…
(Stop the machine)

It’s disgraceful…
How did they get to the point they’re this wasteful…
Living like the future is missing…
They’re ungrateful…
Twisting all the truth…
Keep it hidden…
They’re unfaithful…
Where did they’re faith go?