Somewhere

Written by Marca Cassity

Somewhere in the darkness

Is my heart beating honey

Somewhere in the darkness

Is my will to live

My heritage

Wey oh Hey oh Hey

Somewhere somewhere

I will find it find it

Somewhere in the cold dark night

Are the voices of guidance

Somewhere in the cold dark night

Is the life force

Of the ancestors

Wey oh Hey oh Hey

Somewhere Somewhere

I will find it

Whoa Oh Oh Oh

Throughout the day

Throughout the night

I’m holding vigil

By the fire light

Whoa Oh Oh Oh

Throughout the day

Throughout the night

Hour after hour

Hour after hour

This winter fire

Becomes a spring fire

Becomes a summer fire

Becomes an autumn fire

Hour after hour

Hour after hour

Hour after hour

Somewhere in the darkness

Is my heart beating honey

Somewhere in the darkness

Is my will to live

My heritage

Somewhere somewhere

I will find it find it

Somewhere somewhere

I will find it find it

Mourning Dove

Written by Marca Cassity

Hey ha wey ah

Hey ha wey ah

Hey ha wey ah

Wey ah ha wey ah ha oh

Mourning Dove she calls to me

As I cry about my history

She reminds me how to be

Ever in the mystery

In the mystery I begin again

In the mystery I call you in

In the Mourning song I learn to bring

My life my love my visioning

Oo oooo oo oo oo oo

Mourning Dove Calls

Mourning Dove she calls to me

As I release the misery

She reminds me how to be

Ever in the listening

Listening to the hunger growl

Listening for the here and now

Listening for the mighty power

As the darkness fades

In the daybreak hour

Oo oooo oo oo oo oo

Mourning Dove Calls

Down by the riverside

Autumn sets the trees on fire

Leaves turn gold as they die

I can see the love in your eyes

Down by the waterside

With your kisses I am baptized

In your whisper I can hear my name

As you reach out baby to take my hand

Oo oooo oo oo oo oo

Mourning Dove Calls

Mourning dove she calls to me

As I recreate my history

She reminds how to be

Ever in creativity

In the mourning song I find myself

In the morning song I receive my help

It’s an offering good medicine

Come on people let’s take it in

Oo oooo oo oo oo oo

Mourning Dove Calls

HOw Long

Written by Marca Cassity

Reservation highway in the midnight hour

Flicker of the headlights I’m losing my power

Storm clouds move across a full moon light

Hate speech echoing eclipse my life

Watch out for the deer as you go home

It’s fight flight fight flight freeze or fawn

How much longer can I go on

My grandmother’s road is all I’ve ever known

How long

A thousand stars behind the neon lights

A thousand heart breaks beat beat as I

Drive into this city at night

City at night city at night

I miss my mother I miss my home,

Red earth hill in the thunderstorms

And the heart beat drum heart beat drum

Heart beat drum heart beat drum

In the club where the fire water flows

Love is a battlefield  

Over the rainbow

Cigarette fog laser lights

On this dirty dance floor I’m going to dance dance  

To save my life for one more night

Save my life for one more night

How long…

Ooooo how long (repeats)

Can I get a witness.

Can anybody see this

Numbed by the genocide

Blinded by the colonized

But the thunder and the lighting

The thunder and lighting lighting lightning

Is gonna light up light up light

So rise up child you are here for a reason

For a reason Rise up child you’re here for a reason

A Little Better

Written by Marca Cassity

Who’s going to take it

Take it off my hands

Who’s going help me

Help me make a stand

Try to understand me

Not a woman not a man

Going love me

Just the way I am

Just the way I am

There’s got to be

A better way

To make it out of this

Colonizing shame

I’m looking for some

Ceremonial ways

To get to know

Myself a little better (high)

Myself little better

Oh I’m going get to know myself

Just a little better

Who’s going to take it

Take it off my hands

Who’s going help me

Help me take a stand

Try to understand me

Not a woman not a man

Going love me love me

Just the way I am

Just the way I am

Shining the light

Of visibility

Two Spirit people

Returning returning

Decolonize our sexuality.

And get to get to know

Ourselves a little better

Ourselves little better

Oh gonna get to know ourselves…. just a little better

Ah ha ha oh yeah

Who’s going to take it

Take it off my hands

Who’s going help me

Help me make a stand

Try to understand me

Not a woman not a man

Going love me love me

Just the way I am

Just the way I am

Division, contrition,

boarding school religion

The lies that make you Blind

Smoke off that hatred

and fear inside your mind

And let’s get to know

Each other a little better

Let’s get to know each other a little better

And we will get …to know each ourselves

Yes we will get to know ourselves a little better

Ourselves a little better

Ah ha ha oh yeah hey yeah

Ohhh gonna get to know ourselves just a little better

Ah ha ha oh yeah hey yeah

Ah ha ha oh yeah hey yeah

Thunderbird

Written by Marca Cassity

Ha.wey Oh

Thunderbird flying

In a blood red fire smoke sky

Thunderbird flying

In a blood red fire smoke sky

The carnage below

Of conquerors and kings

The only hope now

Is the power of wings

We’re calling from the earth

The trees and rivers burn

The guns the dogs of the pipe line oh wey oh

We call to the light

For guidance in our fight

Into electric night we are calling, we are calling

Ha.wey Oh

Thunderbird flying

In a blood red fire smoke sky

Thunderbird flying

On a merciful flight

The violence below

Manifest manifest

Manifest destiny

The only hope now

Is the power of wings

We’re calling from the earth

The trees and rivers burn

The guns the dogs of the pipe line oh wey oh

We call to the light

For guidance in our fight

Into electric night we are calling, we are calling

Ha.wey Oh

The lightning from my eyes

The thunder from my wings

Brings forth the reawakening

Re-awakening

Ha.wey Oh

The Way You Move

Written by Marca Cassity

How could I let another woman in

After the wedlock the cold shock the knife cut severance the end

There I lay in the aftermath

In the density with my scars

You cruise up in your dress and your boots

And your reference the stars

The way you move

The way you move

The way you move me

The way you move

The poetry you choose

And your delivery to me it moves me

You move right through me

Oh oh oh Oh oh oh

The way you move

The way-hey The way-hey The way-hey

You move

How does a phoenix rise in times like these

And where is the thunderbird when I’m down on my knees

There I was in catastrophe

Casting spotlights to the sky

You drift up

Moonlight in your eyes

And invite me to sit by the fire

The way you move

The way you move

The way you move me

The poetry you choose

And your delivery to me it moves me

You move right through me

The way ah the way ah they way

The way ah the way ah they way

The way you move

The way the way the way you move

The way the way

The way you move it’s clearly something I need

Like cedar smoke all over me

I’m having some kind of healing

Yeah

The beat the beat the beat your dancing to

Ah well it sets me free

Oh baby you beat this drum inside of me

Woah Oh ho yeah yeah

Oh yeah

The way ah the way ah they way

The way ah the way ah they way

The way you move

The way the way the way you move

Under Your Wing

Written by Brianna Lea Pruett

o your love for me

is no dangerous sea

it’s a glorious thing

taken under your wing

o you shiver and shout

with your spirit but how

that soft voice speaks to me

taken under your wing

under your wing, taken under your wing

oooooo

o, the sweetness of the time

i spent waiting like a bird

for a winter to take flight

and fly away home

is it time yet to go?

and how will i know

o your love for me

is no danger i see

it’s a glorious thing

taken under your wing

don’t know yet when the hurting

will come to an ending

but your fire heals me

taken under your wing

taken under your wing, taken under your wing

o, the sweetness of the time.

ooooooooooo

i spent waiting like a bird

for a winter to take flight

and fly away home

is it time yet to go?

and how will i know?

how the wiping of the tears

works on memory and years

it’s a glorious thing

taken under your wing

don’t know yet when the hurting

will come to an ending

but your fire has healed me

taken under your wing

yes your fire has healed me

taken under your wing

o, the sweetness of the time (ooooos)

i spent waiting like a bird

for a winter to take flight

and fly away home

Is it time yet to go

And how will I know

Fly Away

Written by Marca Cassity

Too much sorrow

Leaving tomorrow

Too much struggle

Too much pain

I’ve got to free me

Free me to be me

Stepping on this

Outbound train

I’m going far far far from the people

Who shame me and tear me down

I’m going to find my two-spirit people

Who love me and lift me up

Gonna fly away

Gonna fly away (repeat)

No more conversions

Bullies and burdens

No more kickin’ this tomboy round

For my survival

From colonizer bible

I’m leaving this

One horse town (hoo hoo)

I’m going to follow the rainbow

To find the love the I need

I going to look look to the eagle

I can feel the power of wings

Gonna fly away

Gonna fly away

The DAWN

Written by Marca Cassity

Inspired by Nick Tilsen

Wailing to the dawn

In the doorway of mystery

Holding errors and terrors

And hope for futurity

And we will carry the water

For those unable

And creation of a home

That is loving and stable

Remembering who we are

Descended from radiant star ohh oohh

Earth people rising in the dawn

Children of the Middle Waters

Wey ah ha ha

Wey ah ha Wey a ha

Wey ah ha ha

Wey ah ha…Oh

Wey ah ha ha

Wey ah ha Wey a ha

Wey ah ha ha

Wey ah ha…Oh

Head in to the storm

Buffalo of thunder nations

In the lighting sacrificing

For the coming generations

Our best days are not behind us

but lie ahead

If in this hour use our power

for cultivating what is precious

Remembering who we are

Descended from radiant stars ohh oohh

Earth people rising in the dawn

Children of the Middle Waters

Wey ah hey ha

Wey ah ha Wey a ha

Wey ah ha ha

Wey ah ha…Oh

Remembering who we are

Descended from radiant stars ohh oohh

Earth people rising in the dawn

Children of the Middle Waters

Wey ah ha ha

Wey ah ha Wey a ha

Wey ah ha ha

Wey ah ha…Oh

Head in to the storm

Buffalo of thunder nations

In the lightning Sacrificing

For the coming generations

2Sacred

Written by Marca Cassity

This is a love song

For the ones that have come before

Singing to the ancestor spirit realm

For our own survival

This is an offering

Sage sweet grass cedar smoke

Lovingly going out to the great mystery

Once more with a feeling

This is a love song

Sing it from the heart

Feel it down in my bones

Tenderness of this river flowing

Grief and bliss

And the tears rolling down

Water the seeds in the ground

And brings to life

All original soul from which they guide

When I cry

When I cry

When I cry cry cry

They are here to hold me

When I fly

When I’m ready to fly

When I’m ready to fly

They are here to release me

And we fly fly

Fly fly fly fly together

We’re keeping it high

In every kind of weather

This is a serenade

Going out to the astral today

Gratitude on my lips

For this multi-dimensional relationship

They lived

They lived and died

They lived and died

And I am here to remember.

And when they reach

They reach through to me

When they reach through to me

I am here to receive them

Wey ha Wey ah

Wey.we.nah (thank you)

Wey ha wey ah yeah

Wey we nah

Wey ha wey ha yeah

Wey.we. nah

Wey ha wey ah yeah

Wey.we.nah

In the dark

When I’m in the dark

When I’m in the dark dark dark

They send me the lightning

And when I’m ignorant

I’m down and lost

And ignorant

When I’m ignorance

They are here to teach me

Teach me

They teach me

Land back

Water is life

Two spirit sacred

Returning

Returning

Returning

Two Spirit Sacred returning

Two Spirit Sacred returning

Two Spirit Sacred returning