Give It All - Nahko and Medicine For The People

…It's made a fractured line

Looks like it’s from God

Maybe God was my dog…

Time to pull out my paints

Brand new canvas, get things straight

There are no lines here

Double rainbows make Great Lakes

Koda spoke Anishinaabe

She is a key,

Bear

Let her open

Everywhere I see is stress

Wonder what we gon' lose next

Well it won’t be sweet love cause

It’s my lesson, it’s my teacher

Malcolm X or Martin Luther

And I am neither

Perfect world what is this

Does it even exist

And would I live there?

Mmmm if I can learn to be alone

I will always have a home

Give it all you got

Give it all you got

All you’ve gained and all you’ve lost

And that’s a lot.

Yeah, that’s a lot

Know the road like dharma bums

From the Catskills to old San Juan

With just an atlas

Well it was magic

Thank you Paul for those directions

Or the bridge ore Indian Ocean

Those troubled waters, no longer silenced

In the dreaming Uluru I heard brumbies singing to me

And casting lines to Palestine

Aotearoa my wairua

It’s nice to know life like that

From the Mauna Standing Rock

There were moments I got lost

Denominators, so fuck the haters

Pa’akai, down Ecuador

Standing room on the jungle floor

Can’t take our language

Can’t drink the oil

Lost a baby, lost a friend

Some days my family’s lost again

To the trauma to the war

That’s how I learned to be alone

Coming from a broken home

That’s how I learned to be alone

Coming from a broken home

Give me all you got

Give me all you got

We’ll make stories, we’ll make love

And that’s enough.

Yeah that’s enough

We’ll make stories, we’ll make love

And that’s a lot.

Yeah, that’s a lot