Dear Brother

(album: Take Your Power Back - 2020)

Dear brother
When you gonna call back your mother?
Thinks you're sleeping in the gutter
We both know you can do better
And when you gonna write your older brother?
A letter
"Hey man I miss you, getting my shit together."
And for the record
I wrote this note as a reminder
Hermano mío
There's a future, you can believe in
Gonna take more than songs of justice and freedom, yeah
There's a future, you can believe in
Gonna take more than songs of justice and freedom
Freedom, yeah

If you're thinking, about leaving
Hold my hand, over stand this too can be your kingdom
Blessed and when the rain comes
Put your hands in the dirt, baba this is where you came from

This is where you came from
This is where you came from
This is where you came from

System's broken no fucks given
Wealthy people living off the backs of the broken
Dreams of America
Dreams of America
Need a pipe carrier
Let me smudge you off so the vision can get clearer
Your mother's crying boy can you hear her?

You gotta put down the weight
You gotta get out of your way
You gotta put down the weight
You gotta get out of your way

Dear lover
You can find me on the front lines covered
In the blood and tears of another
Brother, sister, mother
Revolutions being broadcast on Facebook and Twitter
There's a noise
I can hear it when the megaphone roars
Wipe the tears from this tear gas choice
You have a choice
Stand in front of your fear, baby, time to find your voice

It's a story
A love story
We can believe in
Death, birth, your life's worth, it's trending
A story
A love story
How vain are we to expect a happy ending?

I got my hands up
Follow directions still they shoot us
I'm fucking sick and tired of no justice
No peace
Promise me I'll never pick your body off the streets
We're all taking heat here, oh
The trust is broken I don't get these police

Disenfranchised step into a new life
Baby if you listen to the wind there's a war cry
"Peace in America
Peace in America"
Be decent America
Let me smudge you off so the vision can get clearer
Your mother's crying can you hear her?

What I see, in you
A young tree bearing fruit
Place to start
Don't hide behind your heart

You gotta put down the weight
You gotta get out of your way
You gotta put down the weight
You gotta get out of your way

Ye tiahu
Ye tiahu

Tiahui Yaotecame tlalpixque (Tiahui)
Ximohuala nikan cenyiliztli
Juntar los pueblos
Empieza con la familia
Hermano luchamos por lo k dijo la abuelita (es tiempo)
I can see it in grandma's eyes
My ancestors wildest dreams, we survived genocide
This goes out to all the young souls that never made it
Promise me I'll never pick your body off the pavement
Rematriate the land that they've taken
The water they've poisoned
My people been praying for peace
Hands up don't mean they won't shoot
Uniting at the borders
A generation facing the truth
Se acabo el silencio
Bullets fly by raining in the night time yuh
Round the world tribes gather as the tides rise
Put down the weight my love this is our time

What I see, in you
A young tree bearing fruit
Place to start
Don't hide behind your heart

You gotta put down the weight
You gotta get out of your way
You gotta put down the weight
You gotta get out of your way