The Cleansing/Red Earth Song

Little Daughter
You are so small for a big woman
So soft for someone
Who must be so strong

Little Daughter
I wold you in my arms
I laugh and am happy at your
Baby girl smile
To say I feel good is not enough

Little Daughter
I walk with you
Through the dimension called time
For what are minutes days or years
Compared to Father Daughter
Places in eternity

Little Daughter
You the delicate infant child
Carry the innocent reality
I pray for your protection
Prayers to help you through
This life experience

Little Daughter
The times I hold you next to me
I am flowing an infinity of love
To fill the times
I cannot hold you next to me

Little Daughter
I am always with you
Even when you cannot see me there

Sister, Sister
I want to talk to the woman in you
We're under siege in a troubled time

Sister, Sister
Won't you hear my voice
I'm your Brother
But I've made the mistakes of a man
Sometimes It's lonely being a man
The programming has its affect
Isolation is such a cruel thing

Sister, Sister
Won't you understand
They took your Brothers
Turned them into men
Like they took our sisters
Turned them into women

Sister, Sister
We are all the family of earth
They have taken us away
In their new clear war
Taught us to compete and abuse
And blame each other
While we're all being used

Sister, Sister
Hear my heart
It's time to bring the family back
Together we must remember earth
We must remember what life is all about

Sister, Sister
I am your Brother
Every time I've ever hurt you
I've always hurt myself

Sister, Sister
Hear my voice
It's all up to us
We have a choice

Crystal clear tears of salt
Come when my heart talks with sadness
The tears flow my emotional fivers
It's no damn use to pretend
Pain will not rise again

Crystal clear tears of salt
Help my heart to feel for something
When I do not want to
Clear my vision see my peace
Men don't cry Indians are stoic
I tell that to my heart to my eyes
They just laugh at me and sometimes
When my spirit hurts they make me cry

Crystal clear tears of salt
Purify my memory help me understand
This is not the beginning nor the end

For My Children

To the people I can talk
When it comes to you I know what to say
It's I just don't know how

I love you
That's not a question
Showing it has been confusing
My life has drifted all ways
Somehow I could just never stay
I've rationalized I'm headed to a goal
Yet sometimes my heart hears me running
To a future always from the past

I love you
Don't want you hurt
I want you to realize your potential
I've always been afraid to interfere
My bias my prejudice my doubt
The weaker sides of me

I had to protect you make you stronger
Compassion is to be your companion
As you head to your destiny

I've tried the only way I knew
Please try to understand
I didn't know what else to do and
I love you

Yesterdays laughter
Is the balance for today
Today's tears
Are the cleansing for tomorrow

We started out so long ago
There was no one to teach us
What we had to know
The days were ours
The times they were extreme
We did our best and we did our worst in
The constant struggle to understand why

Illusions and fantasies battering us
Teaching us the hard way
Forcing us to find a right way
Shelter and comfort coming where we found it
Constantly moving it was like being
Chased by something we did not understand

Many are the times we could
Have just laid down and died
But the will of life
Helped us to survive
As we travel through life
With yesterdays laughter
The balance for today
And today's tears
A cleansing for tomorrow

Young ones listen
Remember who we are
Remember where we are
Do not take the word of America

Listen to them as in caution
Live among them as in surrounded
Live not as they live
Live to appreciate

Seconds ago in eternity
Ancient ones decided
Way before wounded spirits
Dreams shattering under aggression

Earth is Mother, we are are children
The protection is our innocence
Seconds ago it was decided
We are the middle of forever

Look for your medicine
There is a white world gone mad
Thinking protection is in force
Greed the machine preys on them
But they will not admit it
Or do anything about it

They have no medicine
With backs turned on children and elders
They do no even care
For air or water or land or life
Too confused to care is no way to live

Young ones listen
Remember who you are
Remember where you are
Remember why you are