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Artist: Aztlan Underground
Track 5 of 18: Sacred Circle
Album: Peace and Dignity Journeys (2000) compilation
Artist on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sacred-circle/id313461314?i=313461370

LYRICS:
Sometimes they have to kill us
They have to kill us
Because they can’t break our spirit
What makes you such a threat?
We choose the right to be who we are
We know the difference between the reality of freedom and the illusion of freedom.

I never knew pride and I never knew dignity
I’ve never lived the truth ‘cause I’ve only lived insanity
Humanity insanity this is what you done to me
This is what you do to me
So now it’s land or liberty
This is the reality the gava has gave
From the slayer to the slave and the cradle to the grave
A world with no windows and a world with no mirrors
A world with no doors and a world with no tears
No more this is my birth
‘Cause I never touched the earth and I never touched the sky
‘Cause I never knew why
See I never knew the moon
I never knew the sun
I never knew humanity and nature are one
‘Cause I’ve never lived the circle
See I’ve only lived the square
I’ve only lived the square ‘cause they taught me not to care
You know think for yourself
Put compassion on the shelf
Compete until you die and defeat to get by
See I never knew to question all the things that I was taught
I never realized the falseness of their plot
From the slayer to the slave
And the cradle to the grave
The direction of my path had I not been saved
I was saved by my roots
Yes my true culture
I saw through the lies of that western vulture
The western culture and all its inhumanity
Ravages the earth as it perpetrates insanity
Humanity insanity this is what you done to me
This is what you do to me
So now it’s land or liberty

There’s a way to live with earth and a way not to live with earth
A-ho
We choose the way of earth
Mitakuye oyasin
It’s about power
In the sprit of Cuitlahuac
We choose the way of earth
In the Spirit of Zapata and in the spirit of Crazy Horse

Respect to you mother all my sisters and brothers
Our sagrada Tonantzin the sacred earth mother
The sacred earth mother but she’s only half-alive
She’s only half-alive but we need her to survive
We need her to survive but we lost all our connection
Our connection to the circle and its sacred four directions
The sacred four D and its manifestations
Reveals Ometeotl and all its creations
From the mother to the earth
To the sky to the father
To the earth to the air to the fire to the water
To the north to the south to the east to the west
When we used to live in harmony we used to live the best
We used to give and take
We used to take and give
We used to be in balance
That’s how we used to live
This is sacred circle
This is our connection
Now our mother is sick and she’s cut up all sections
How it was and how it shall be
Unless we understand this we will never be free
We will never be free unless we live in harmony
We will never be free unless we realize prophesy
‘Cause prophesy is Aztlan
Aztlan’s destiny
Destiny is Aztlan
‘Cause Aztlan holds the key
Aztlan holds the key for our people to be free
Aztlan holds the key for the world to see that
Aztlan will save the world eventually

That Aztlan will save the world eventually

They have to kill us
A-ho mitakuye oyasin all my relations
‘Cause they can’t break our spirit

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