Billy, won't you come home?
What you doin' out there?
That ain't your fight, man,
What you doin' out there?
It ain't so bad here...we got a home out here,
We got land out here,
What you doin' out there?
That ain't your fight, man,
What you wanna die out there for?
Why you wanna die out there
In a white man's war?
It wasn't so long ago
They used to roam through this land,
They used to trample through this land
Killing the Cheyenne.
Now they're trampling over there....
Don't go trampling over there.
They used to run through this land,
Killing Cheyenne.
Your people are here now
They have always been.
Your people are here now.
We have always been.
Sharon's got a baby now,
You can't go traveling over there…
Your mother won't talk to you now,
You can't go over there.
You think you're protecting your family?
No, you're leaving us alone and scared.
That ain't your fight, Bill.
Don't go over there.
Are you bound by some sense of duty?
That sense don't belong to you.
Are you bound by a love of country?
Your country was taken from you.
Your only country is what you see.
Your country was taken from you.
Your only country is this family….
And in a dream I saw you, brother,
You were on a mountainside.
You were covered in blood,
On a mountainside.
A sacrifice
Laying on a mountainside.
Please, please,
Don't go climbing no mountainsides…
Billy, what's wrong with you?
What the hell you tryin' to prove?
They don't need you,
'Round here we need you.
Our fight is not over there
on another peoples land,
Our fight is where we stand.
Our fight is where we stand.
Our fight is trying to survive
In these modern times.
Our fight is to feel alive
In these modern times.
To keep our will alive
In these modern times.
To keep our hope alive,
In these modern times.
credits
from ghosts, rising,
released October 28, 2013
Jesse: guitar, bass, voice
Zak: drums and all percussion
This album speaks to the continuum of African diasporic culture that is central to the vibrant canon of Americana folk music. Bandcamp Album of the Day May 29, 2020
Bright and skipping songs that foreground the sound of the banjo and fingerstyle guitar in music that feels timeless. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 5, 2020