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I think about As long as there is life And you go outside in the anthropocentricism You understand that all that other life we depend on And, if we ever know it or not That other life depends on us That's how much responsibility I don't have right to the other life But so many anthropocentrics Will take that line And dismiss it Will think that we own the other life And if we understand our place like you say That, that soul of that place actually has its own vibratory Its own message, its own voice Who's listening to that voice? And who's lost the connection to that part of the world That, that is still crying out? That those people have been removed from 'Cause we have justified our civilization to removes those peoples And yet that soul Is actually missing in those folks who have taken The others who understand the language from that place So what, what do we do with the responsibility that Mama Earth is Compelling us now especially to do Is to look at these places, renourish ourselves Speak the language of her Which will not ever put you to sleep because it's a language of consciousness It's not one of conscience Where I'm right, am I doing the right thing or the wrong thing? No, it, it's actually telling you, it's, you feel it I will never forget when Ophelia Rivas said "We will live as long as there is life We're not defeated, not relics, not frozen in time We will live as long as there is life" I was driving through the badlands, always coming home Listening for what it means to be remembered Miles of grey-blue silver once under the ocean Open to what it means to be forever The soul of a place can never be erased We live as long as there is life We live as long as there is life I went to bear witness at Wounded Knee On Pine Ridge Reservation, to listen and to see Myself in the reflection And destiny (We live as long as there is life) I met a beautiful woman Charmaine Whiteface Defender of the Black Hills Her eyes are like two half moons Half open, half free Looking into the distance, then right at me She said, "Every action is a prayer" You don't need to live close to me to get sick enough to care We measure the water and we see through the government's plan Abandoned open-pit uranium mines Keep poisoning our bodies, our water and land The wind, the wind (The wind) Won't recognize (Won't recognize borderlines) Manmade borderlines What they do to me, they do to you The water and wind never recognized nobody's borderline We live as long as there is life We live as long as there is life We live as long as there is life We live as long as there is life I will never forget when Ophelia Rivas said "We will live as long as there is life" Not defeated, not relics, not frozen in time Not a mascot We live as long as there is life We live as long as there is life We live as long as there is life We live as long as there is life