Wash It All Away

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We're a part of something special
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We're a part of something special
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We’re a part of something special
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It’s a crack in time
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A wrinkle
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Fallen from the nest, young eagle
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I will pull my feathers out
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Stay humble
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Stay humble
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Stay humble
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Stay humble
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Stay humble

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Uncle Mana taught us like an elder
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Took asunder older brother

He said
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This is powerful country
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This is powerful country
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We felt like we were returning
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To our land rebels
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And the shepherds in the sea
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Takers are taking what the leavers will leave
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So grieve me the black prince cicada
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Such a loud voice for a tiny creature
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Teach me to let go of all of my pain
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I do forgive, I don't forget these things
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 I do forgive, I don't forget these things
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We burn the bluegum for a safe passageway
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Drink of the earth smoke of the dirt and my warpaint was red
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Ochre clay Hoka hey Red ochre clay
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Hoka hey             Red ochre clay
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 Our prayers igniting, cast out into the shire
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 And the song of our struggle came straight from the fire
It goes

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Holy holy grandmother
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 We sing wash us clean of our pain and suffering
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 Give us strength for our new beginnings
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 In my deepest grace I sing
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It'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up
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It'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up
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It'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up
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It'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up
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Ooh lift ‘em up ooh lift ‘em up

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In my dreams a you were aboriginal man
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Gave me your hat and your past in one hand and said
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You've come to be with rainbow serpent
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Red hands red land red worship
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 Red hands red land red worship
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Just then I heard bush mama crying in the chasms
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For the stolen generation and the children who haven't
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 Come home come home stay home
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Come home come home stay home
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My bullets are my words and my words are my weapons
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 So chain me to the pipeline for our rivers and mountains
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We sing today's a good day for my ego to die
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 Today's a good day for my ego to die
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Spirit live on in my heart, in my body, my mind
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Then sister crow came with the murder that day
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So we tattoed the bird nation onto our faces
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She said we sing to let go of all of our pain
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We dance the story to remember when things changed
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        Remember when things changed
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        Remember when things changed

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Holy holy grandmother
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We sing wash us clean of our pain and suffering
        C       D       Bm
Give us strength for our new beginnings
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In my deepest thanks I sing
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It'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up
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It'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up
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 It'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up
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 It'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up
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        Ooh lift ‘em up        ohh ohhh
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        Ooh lift ‘em up
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        Ooh lift ‘em up        ohh ohhh
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        Ooh lift ‘em up

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We danced the ghost dance in two separate countries
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To this old song so familiar to memory
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The road will teach you how to love and let go
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It can be lonely but it's the only thing that we've ever known
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It can be lonely but it's the only thing that we've ever known
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Our mommas told us let go of jealousy
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And for vagabonds and vagrants, that won't come so easy
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We've come from nothing, nothing
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We have come from nothing, nothing
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Teach me to love you in a different way
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 Same cuts same guts same crazy
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Same cuts same guts same crazy
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I traveled halfway across the country and back
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Only to find love undefined and I'm OK with that
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Cause I'm gonna be a guardian be a man among men
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Be a guardian be a man among men
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Or be a woman among women be a guardian
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Be my friend ooh be my friend
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We're a part of something special
       Em      C         G     D
We're a part of something special
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We’re a part of something special
       Em       C
It’s a crack in time
  G      D
A wrinkle
       Em       C           G    D
Fallen from the nest, young eagle
       Em               C
I will pull my feathers out
     G    D
Stay humble
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Stay humble
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Stay humble
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Stay humble
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Stay humble