Native Blood

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Garrett Russell] The barren wastes bearing down on me [1] Cracks in the clouds leave me wondering Did the oceans dry out, return to the sky For a privileged perspective of our final goodbye? Pretend it's a house of peace while she's buried underneath You built your father's house over my mother's grave [2] Bodies, a mass grave collapse the concave floor These sanctimonious steeples will meet us in the dirt Because the earth is trembling, [3] if only we had eyes to see it shake Ignorant until we expire [Pre-Chorus: Garrett Russell] When the ocean fills our veins and the soil becomes my bones [4] [Chorus: Thomas Freckleton] Maybe we'll fall asleep tonight To the madness in the melody poured out for slaves [Post-Chorus: Garrett Russell] We were dressed in potential, now we're draped in sorrow [Verse 2: Garrett Russell] Our race is a bloodstain spattered on a profane political campaign Manifest your destiny Stripes and stars comprise my prison bars The cost of liberty [5] [Chorus: Thomas Freckleton & Garret Russell] Maybe we'll fall asleep tonight To the madness in the melody poured out for slaves Maybe this storm is a perfect score For wretched bodies washed ashore, poured out for me [6] [Verse 3: Garrett Russell] The life I loved looking up at me Saplings struck like daggers hemorrhaging streams As the breath of my people return to the ground [7] So forests can once more abound The suffering cross that overcame [8] The name of love made concurrent with shame [Outro: Garrett Russell] This melody, I thought it familiar It sounds like your heartbeat keeping time Then you turn and remind me that this pain has a purpose And maybe we'll fall asleep tonight