"HEARTBEAT GWICH'IN"
Words & Music by Robby Romero
  
Spoken Word Clarence Frank, Michelle Van Dyke
and Chief Evon Peter


as the purple sunset fades
are we really here alone

and all that’s real seems so far away
sacrificing tomorrow for yesterday

there’s a heartbeat louder than thunder
revolution is in the air
there’s a heartbeat deep inside our mother
are you to cool to care

i really don’t want the drilling to go on in the arctic refuge because it’ll change the migration route of the porcupine caribou heard

and i believe it that its a bad decision to make

the gwich’in are mostly caribou people we call ourselves
we wont be caribou people without the caribou

and it makes me mad because that’s all they have been doing is coming in and taking our land

there’s going to be no subsistence anywhere one day
no animals, no freedom, no nothing

were entering a time where we need to really shift the pyridine of how we think about our relationship with each other
and with the land and with the animals

roll back the darkness

we need to be humbled as people around the world
and except that we are not really
the dominating controllers of the universe

we’ve been blind for far to long

this is something that is so necessary for us and fundamental
in these times of change as we are becoming
a global society around the world

and the spirit they could never really see
you cant take away from me
there’s a heartbeat
there’s a heartbeat

© Copyright 2005 Eagle Thunder Music / ASCAP

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