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Vigilant Love
03:39
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LYRICS
We'll make sure that the dust never settles
We'll make sure that the sun never sets
Don't you know that we'll rebel and meddle?
We won't lie down yet
And we won't forget
We're just getting started you see
We'll fight for what we know this country can be
We're holding ourselves to a higher degree
We won't take steps back now
Everyone will be free
The people are rising
And this wave can't be stopped
We won't be silent until your last weapons of hatred drop
We take to the streets to be with each other
To console
To react
To fight
To love
To bolster
And through these acts of vigilant love
We pave the road
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2. |
Sister
03:02
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LYRICS
My sister, the desert
She stole my heart
She took me in while I was bleeding
She soaked my blood up with her sands
She wiped my tears away with wild thistles
My sister
She witnessed me dance my freest dance
Topless moonlight had us gleaming
Released my burning into ash
Held me tight while I was sobbing
She felt the power in my voice
Echoed it back with fervent yearning
She felt the promise in my limbs
She woke me up to face the morning
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3. |
Faige Etke
04:33
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Faige Etke was born in a shtetl
Little village that Jews were forced to live in
Forced in shtetles and then came the ghettos and then extermination camps
זי אנטרונען צו אַמעריקע פֿאַר אַ בעסער לעבן
zi antrunen tsu Amerike far a beser lebn
She escaped to America for a better life
Lower east sweatshops
Then on to the prairie
homesteading cowgirls
Lakota land taken it’s true
Keeping the sabbath
Raising smart daughters
Old traditions in new lands
And here I am singing to you
It’s our job to remember
It’s our privilege to fight
So that others can prosper
And share the same rights
Open the borders
There’s room for us all
This isn’t just your land
We’ll tear down your wall
Gabriela was born in Planeta
Honduran district of San Pedro Sula
Rival gangs, violence and threats
and then when they came for her son
EXCERPT BEGINS
Huyeron a los Estados Unidos buscando seguridad
They fled to the U.S. for safety
The journey alone could have cost them their lives
Hopping trains and through deserts
Keeping hope as their light
If it was death or papers
Which would you choose
Remember when your family was
Singing the immigrant blues too
Though not all our people came here by choice
Lives and land stolen
This past has a price
Our right to asylum
was no more than theirs
Emma’s words ring true
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...
It’s our job to remember
It’s our privilege to fight
So that others can prosper
And share the same rights
Open the borders
There’s room for us all
This isn’t just your land
We’ll tear down your wall
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4. |
Never Been
05:12
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I've never been in a hole like this before
I've been in holes before, but they all seemed shallower
I must have left the ladder back at home
The problem is, I don't know if my parents threw it out,
or maybe I never had it there at all.
This hole seems more sinister
The problem is
the lights are on
my bed is warm
my friends are outside calling my name (3)
I choose not to answer
That's not very like me
But I've never been in a love like this before
I've been in love before, but that all seems shallower
I didn't know hearts could be this raw (many)
Did you know we could be in two places at once? (goes down)
Down in these holes
And up on this mountain top
The truth is
I wouldn't know how low this hole goes
If we never climbed this peak together
If I never fell all the way back down
Others may say
then why risk the fall
why climb at all?
But when I'm laying in the dirt
With the worms on the damp earth
I'll remember
That I can also touch the sky (steps up)
I can also feel the sun
We can also soar
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5. |
Río Espíritu
04:52
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Visited the river spirit
Where she flows down to the sea
I asked her what she saw from there
And what she saw in me
Potente y hermoso
Rio espiritu
¿ qué ves desde aquí?
Y Como puedo ser como tu
Y Como puedo ser como tu
How do you keep flowing
Through the rocks that hold you back
The stones aren’t in my way she said
But just part of my path
Either I who shapes the river
Or the bed that shapes my way
The ocean will still call to me
And I’ll heed the call every day
Calm or tumultuous
(oo nana oo nana)
Sunny skies or stormy gray
(oo nana oo nana)
Oo aaa
In your path too are many boulders
Many burdens you must bare
But trust that you will pass them all
Stronger, wiser more aware
With this knowledge
(oo nana oo nana oo nana)
Leave behind doubts and despair
Outro
Potente y hermoso
Rio espiritu
¿ qué ves desde aquí?
Y Como puedo ser como tu
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Aviva La Viv Brooklyn, New York
Aviva La Viv (they/she) is Brooklyn based queer Jewish singer/songwriter. Through ethereal melodies and poetic lyricism, Aviva weaves together their social activism, heritage, and explorations of emotional dichotomies. In their debut Eps "Vigilant Love' Volumes 1 and 2, Aviva combines their folk music roots with world, indie rock, and house music influences. ... more
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