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The Book Opens ...We have the feathers of our birds Whatever you use from whatever area Whatever bird is sacred to that tribe You should never say 'No, mine is better' or 'Mine is more pretty' Because Grandfather made everything its equal Yours is this color, mine's this But the power is identical If we first understand that So when we add the feathers to the rattle We say that this is going to take our message to Grandfather In a sense But Grandfather is all around us We don't have to do nothing Grandfather's here But it is a direction for man, To make him feel like he is doing something When in reality we are doing nothing We can't identify two rocks and feathers and rattles They become a symbol of Indian medicine man Chanting on TV Or a rock and roll star shaking his rattles because it feels good The eagles come They hear, they hear something, their truth The hear the eagles blowing whistles They come and they investigate it Then they circle above our sundance They circle until they go out of sight It looks and it feels watching during the sundance You can see them going and going And pretty soon the sun starts dancing 2. Quick Words 3. Shall We Play the Game 4. Semati Siyonpme ... musically, spiritually To get to the second one If we haven't haven't done both here Then the second one is to clear one up And by the time we get to the fourth If there are angels then maybe that's what we'll become But the ... Maybe about time we get to the fourth one We'll see the reality of who we really are 5. Good Day Morning ... the people should rest in a natural way Not in a coffin, but in a natural way The little creatures and crawlers come And they distribute our body evenly Back into Mother Earth We become one with her We become conductive (?) 6. Leap into the Inconceivable 7. Song of Home 8. Building Bridges 9. Sound and Color 10. Longwalker Speaks The rattle is a voice given to us by Mother Earth She can't talk to us like we talk in a voice So we have to create a voice for Her That the people will hear. So who did we go to? We didn't have the knowledge As humans Because we're limited as to our abilities In the spiritual world But because Mother Earth deals with life and death Every second that the clock goes around That she's so familiar That we take the elements How do we get them? We have to go to the thing live So we go to an ant hill And there's a ceremony and there's song There's prayers that go with it And we ask the ants for help And in asking them for this help They bring us stones From where ever they collect them We don't ask them where It's enough that they bring them to us We collect these stones And we put them in these rattles And, uh, fifty-two of them Each one is a voice from the past And the people say "Man, they laugh at that" And I say "Laugh if you want, but, listen... While you're making fun, open one ear To reality. Let the other one be happy, and destructive" So, the stones that the ants bring When we lay our people to rest in the natural way Not in a coffin, but in a natural way The little creapers and crawlers come And they distribute our body Evenly, back into Mother Earth We become one with Her We become productive See.. uh.. we're using We never leave We go back to the earth And "dust to dust" they say In due time We're blown into the atmosphere We come down in rain and snow And this rain and snow is absorbed By all creation again It goes into the water We're drinking it agian We're eating it again We become productive So how can Man not save our own brothers With creation? We are just one massive cell With so much energy and beauty That the short time on the physical form It's such a sin, a waste to tie it up in all the destruction This is the voice that is going into each little stone We put in that rattle All this power, knowledge, energy Then..... 11. Maazo Maazo 12. Enter Ye the Mystery School Now I, I have the feeling I feel good talking about this and Almost, this is really the first time, In talking to you Or anybody like you in this ... I feel we have an obligation I've been to the mountains now And I healed myself They said, you can't heal nobody else until you've healed yourself Clean your backyard up so it looks nice Invite your friends And if they accept what you have done Over a period of time Now, you listen to their comments Good and bad And clean it again Four times Okay, we've done that four times And everybody is happy We have to offer it to them Now I said my backyard's clean My backyard, not my mind. My heart is still dirty A little bit But I'm cleaning it It's going... I don't know what chemicals to use (giggle) And I'll try to get it out I still have this... I still have a feeling in there that I'm really ashamed of now ...Everything I do is life, Mother Earth The universe, the solar system Beyond where the red man has gone Beyond where technology can't ever go Can't reach it We have to respect our women Our little women The young girls We have to give them back their right In a place that is really theirs This place is not for the man We are only the caretakers We are the gardeners And the gardener will not get his pay unless the garden is beautiful We've got a long way to go to make our garden beautiful We have to give our women back their role in life Their voices inside their .... So when we add the feathers of our birds Whatever you use from whatever area Whatever bird is sacred to that tribe You should never say 'No, mine is better' or 'Mine is more pretty' Because Grandfather made everything its equal Yours is this color, mine's this But the power is identical If we first understand that So when we add the feathers to the rattle We say that this is going to take our message to Grandfather 13. Ave Verum [Transcribed by Yesman for those folks in Brazil]