The Children of Indigo / azure blue (joy)

Lyrics

There was once a woman who ate the sky Drank its deep blue oceans And became intoxicated with its wonder She ate until her skin became darker Richer than all earthly beings They called her the color Indigo She passed down its deep hues On the tips of her fingerprints to her children And they adopted a similar brilliance As their mother Indigo is not easily diluted They used their indigo to paint thе world In palaces, pyramids, and ziggurats From Ethiopia, and Egypt to Peru They stainеd the world with the wonderful sapphire dye More precious than gold But they mined the sky so deeply They became drunk on Heaven Touching the sky Has its beauty and its perils Glory can be a fool's gold That helps you lose Touch with earthly obligations They lost their connection to the lands They lost their connections with each other Merchants jealous of their color captured them Comfortably sold her children Across the earth for rum and sugar Leaving the once clear waters blue From those who jumped overboard Shipping them along the sea and river banks Locked in stocks in bondage. Banking on my ancestors The original stocks and bonds as deposits Even in the face of insurmountable cruelty These children learned to drown suffering in rhythm And weaved joy in the fabric of suffering Your cotton and tobacco fields Your denim jeans are stained with her fingerprints The rock and hip hop you dance to The jazz you enjoy on lazy Sundays Was born from their spirituals They took their Blues and made A magic called song And everywhere their music touched Became their culture Indigo is not easily diluted All the times we were knocked to earth We became stronger Our enemies knew If left unchained we would touch the sky. Again And So all paths lead us back to the way where the bluebirds fly And Indigo's children can be found in all the places where the sun kisses their skin By golden sun and blue ocean And We found our home again Yes, our former selves built pyramids and temples as portals So we could go back to the future. Our future The treasure that could only be found within And Joy, joy comes in the morning We learned there is no need to wait on the world for our coronation Our crown has been passed down in our fingerprints And we shine more brilliant with each day Our color is not easily diluted