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went to the gallery
where they hung my art
graverobbers w/a doctors salary
put a price tag on my bleeding heart
& a dying language
was screaming from the gallery wall
I'm huddled in a bathroom stall
waiting for the spirit world to call

& their lord won't forgive
wut a syringe might
I'm feeling godly on a binge high
I might work up the nerve
to leave u tonite

but darling, why don't u just treat me right?

buildings scrape the sky
theyre housing a blight upon humankind
dismantle them & expose the lies
the putrid lairs of the hive mind
sell it back to them, the rotten heights,
the bleak, endless starvation nights
ur dying family they can't look in the eyes
we've gotta game the system cause we never had rights

oh, the things an Injuns gotta do
to pay rent
on stolen land
oh, the things that we must do
to get thru
to u
& to know
you'll still never understand

oh, the things an Injuns gotta do
to not wind up dead
& get blood
on their smooth white hands
lost in the city another foster kid dies
oh, the things we compromise,
lives lost w no goodbyes,
I will no longer cave into ur demands
I'll take everything I can, to survive & pay rent on stolen lands

but darling, why don't u just treat me right?

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from THE THINGS AN INJUN'S GOTTA DO TO SURVIVE ON STOLEN LAND, released October 22, 2022

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just a homesick Qelmucw on stolen land

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