Native Blood

[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