I am Lakota Lakota, looking at money man Diggin' the deadly quotas Out of balance, out of hand We want the land Lay down the reeking ore Don't you hear the shrieking in the trees? Everywhere you touch the earth she's sore Every time you skin her all things weep Your money mocks us Restitution what good can it do? Kenneled in metered boxes Red dogs in debt to you I am Lakota Lakota, fighting among ourselves All we can say with one whole heart Is we won't sell, no we'll never sell We want the land The lonely coyote calls In the woodlands footprints of the deer In the barrooms poor drunk bastard falls In the courtrooms deaf ears sixty years You think we're sleeping but Quietly like rattlesnakes and stars We have seen the trampled rainbows In the smoke of cars I am Lakota BraveSun pity me I am Lakota BrokenMoon pity me I am Lakota GraveShadows stretching LakotaOh, pity me I am Lakota WeakGrass pity me I am Lakota FaithfulRocks pity me I am Lakota MeekStanding water LakotaOh, pity me I am Lakota Lakota, standing on sacred land We never sold these black hills To the missile-heads, to the power plants We want the land The bullet and the fence broke LakotaThe black coats and the booze broke LakotaCourts that circumvent choke LakotaNothing left to lose Tell me grandfather You spoke the fur and feather tongues Do you hear the whimpering waters When the tractors come? I am Lakota BraveSun pity me I am Lakota BrokenMoon pity me I am Lakota GraveShadows stretching LakotaOh, pity me I am Lakota WeakGrass pity me I am Lakota FaithfulRocks pity me I am Lakota MeekStanding water LakotaOh, pity me Sun pity me Mother Earth MotherMoon pity me Father sky FatherShadows Stretching on the forest floor Mother Earth Oh, pity me Father sky FatherGrass pity me Mother Earth MotherRocks pity me Father sky FatherWater Standing in a waken manner Mother Earth Oh, pity me Father sky FatherSun pity me Mother Earth MotherMoon pity me Father sky FatherShadows Stretching on the forest floor Mother Earth Oh, pity me Father sky FatherGrass pity me Mother Earth MotherRocks pity me Father sky Father