Family lineage whether Dene, Cree
Or Hungarian history passed down in reverie
Along with an ancient imperial rite of severing
Of severing

World wars entangled to my sequence
Both lines coupled to my double helix
Schoolyard forsaken into inter-generations
Left me in my mind to be beaten by illusions

Cuz I felt detached detached
Illustrate a lack a lack
Of connection to spirit
Connect connect to spirit

They forge us catholic
To kill the goddess
Pour sacrilege
Medus-us object

We praise their crucifix
They enforce repentance
Kneeled prostration
With a lack of faith

All that holy
But where was the brave?
From a young age
Ripped away from play
In the evening
Catechism cruise
Afternoon a 10-yr-old
Delivering the news

Bought myself candy
with my money
Through to 16
with the drug-pent loving

Electronic music ecstasy
Late nights mornings LSD
Winter barren trees experimenting
Trying for an escape strategy

From the home
with all the hallway yelling
Got pennies for your dimes
tell me who it is selling

Cuz I felt detached detached
Illustrate a lack a lack
Of connection to spirit
Connect connect to spirit

Cuz I felt detached detached
Illustrate a lack a lack
Of connection to spirit
Connect connect to spirit

Seeing my culture
Open displayed
On the gym floor
On Aboriginal day
The dancer twirls
My friends crusade
Beat of drums prickle
While this shame is engraved

Given gifts of sacred spirit are missed
Thrust upon with a medical list
Genocide of white walls inside a psych ward
I have seen it all they try to sever our cord

Home life echoes
A stolen scoop full
Graveyards at school, trench warfare
And falling shrapnel

Over a lineage
Thickened with pride
Pierced open side
Their christ’s omen tied
Brother to psychosis
Forced to take flight
Splintered my family
The woodchips alight

Cuz I felt detached detached
Illustrate a lack a lack
Of connection to spirit
Connect connect to spirit

Cuz I felt detached detached
Illustrate a lack a lack
Of connection to spirit
Connect connect to spirit

We are not / detached detached
There is not / a lack a lack
Of connection to spirit
Connect connect to spirit

We are not / detached detached
There is not / a lack a lack
Of connection to spirit
Connect connect to spirit

Hearing the land and my ancestors, and the spirit in everything
I can look back and see the spirit in everything