Lyrics: Robin Jackson
Music: Robin Jackson
I had a dream last night
I lived in the ground
My roots dug down deep
With every breath
A thousand leaves would shake
And the old earth would creak
I had a dream last night
My roots were a love song
Hands clasped tight
For a million years
With all of my sisters and all of my brothers
We all cry the same tears
The way the wind blows the waterfalls
We are a part of it all
The breath inside of you inside of me
So much these days is us and them
Caught up in a case of othering’
But we all come from
We all come from the same tree
I had a dream last night
The sky was burning
Ashes on my tongue
from a page that needs to turn
Anger is the spark of a world that’s learning
You can’t fight fire with fire
or there’ll be nothing left to burn
Divisiveness and righteousness
Are wind upon the flames
Underneath the words we speak
We are all the same
A trunk is a passage from the earth to the sky
In the roots we are born and we all will die
The way the wind blows the waterfalls
We are a part of it all
The breath inside of you inside of me
So much these days is us and them
Caught up in a case of othering’
But we all come from
We all come from the same tree