[Lyric] As Long as There Is Life (Morley)

I think about
As long as there is life
And you go outside in the anthropocentricism
You understand that all that other life we depend on
And, if we ever know it or not
That other life depends on us
That's how much responsibility
I don't have right to the other life
But so many anthropocentrics
Will take that line
And dismiss it
Will think that we own the other life
And if we understand our place like you say
That, that soul of that place actually has its own vibratory
Its own message, its own voice
Who's listening to that voice?
And who's lost the connection to that part of the world
That, that is still crying out?
That those people have been removed from
'Cause we have justified our civilization to removes those peoples
And yet that soul
Is actually missing in those folks who have taken
The others who understand the language from that place
So what, what do we do with the responsibility that Mama Earth is
Compelling us now especially to do
Is to look at these places, renourish ourselves
Speak the language of her
Which will not ever put you to sleep because it's a language of consciousness
It's not one of conscience
Where I'm right, am I doing the right thing or the wrong thing?
No, it, it's actually telling you, it's, you feel it
I will never forget when Ophelia Rivas said
"We will live as long as there is life
We're not defeated, not relics, not frozen in time
We will live as long as there is life"

I was driving through the badlands, always coming home
Listening for what it means to be remembered
Miles of grey-blue silver once under the ocean
Open to what it means to be forever

The soul of a place can never be erased
We live as long as there is life
We live as long as there is life

I went to bear witness at Wounded Knee
On Pine Ridge Reservation, to listen and to see
Myself in the reflection
And destiny
(We live as long as there is life)

I met a beautiful woman
Charmaine Whiteface
Defender of the Black Hills
Her eyes are like two half moons
Half open, half free
Looking into the distance, then right at me
She said, "Every action is a prayer"
You don't need to live close to me to get sick enough to care
We measure the water and we see through the government's plan
Abandoned open-pit uranium mines
Keep poisoning our bodies, our water and land

The wind, the wind (The wind)
Won't recognize (Won't recognize borderlines)
Manmade borderlines
What they do to me, they do to you
The water and wind never recognized nobody's borderline

We live as long as there is life
We live as long as there is life
We live as long as there is life
We live as long as there is life

I will never forget when Ophelia Rivas said
"We will live as long as there is life"
Not defeated, not relics, not frozen in time
Not a mascot

We live as long as there is life
We live as long as there is life
We live as long as there is life
We live as long as there is life