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Grave Digger

from Life After by Snotty Nose Rez Kids

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I know Creator with me, you can see it when I rage
Couple thousand in the building, hundred thousand on the stage
I been tryna save my people, I’m the one that should be saved
I just wanna catch a body, I’m so tired of digging graves

And I’ve shed so many tears, all my brothers done the same
For the ones who came before me, you can see you feel ashamed
Cause you buried all your demons, never put ‘em in their place
Now a days I do the same, I guess its in my DNA

Im’a grave digger, you don’t need to know my name
Im’a grave digger, haven’t slept in days
Im’a grave digger, you don’t need to know my pain
Im’a grave digger, it’s in my DNA

Take away my land and my hand drum, take my last breath with a hand gun
I ain’t afraid of death, I don't fear none, my day ones know I'm a real one
I been telling myself I had a good run, the young me would say least you had fun
You can throw me at a grave, throw dirt on my name, but my pops always said you bad son

I think I was a god in a past life, I swear to god I do this in my honour
The good die young I know what’s like, I swear that you could put that on my momma
I been down, I been out, and I been burnt, I’d be lying if I tried to say it didn’t hurt
Only thing I never been is a liar (true), when I die you can burn me in designer

Im’a grave digger, you don’t need to know my name
Im’a grave digger, haven’t slept in days
Im’a grave digger, you don’t need to know my pain
Im’a grave digger, it’s in my DNA

Red hand on my face with a hand drum
It go bang, bang, bang, I’m troublesome
My very existence is a resistance
That’s nothing new under grandfather sun

My war cry, man I’m going in
Creator look out for the kid
Cuz Jesus ain’t die for my sins
I tell ‘em my ancestors did

Look, I’m a redman and my clan be the blackfish
I cleanse in the ocean, I don’t need no baptist
I got my hair long like my ancestors boy
And I shake it and shake it like Polaroid pictures

Loyal to the soil
With my dawgs, call ‘em Hoyas
Shed so many tears, I warn you
That it comes with being a warrior

Im’a grave digger, you don’t need to know my name
Im’a grave digger, haven’t slept in days
Im’a grave digger, you don’t need to know my pain
Im’a grave digger, it’s in my DNA

I know creator with me, you can see it when I rage
Couple thousand in the building, hundred thousand on the stage
I been tryna save my people, I’m the one that should be saved
I just wanna catch a body, I’m so tired of digging graves

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from Life After, released October 22, 2021

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