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the covenant
Is not relevant your reverend keeps on selling us your miracles
Old folks are on a hunt for some oracles

Dry land
They got me rapping ‘bout
Dry

Come and bury all your fears
Under this black deadly field
Tall is goin' to be your fall into salty sea
Never complain, stop this shame
Wind blows

Diemen's land
Far away from your friends and relations
Betrayed by the black velvet band."

Her eyes, they shone like the diamonds
You'll think she was queen

to know your worth
Welcome to America
The greatest place on Earth
I know we're trapped in the darkness
I know this place is so heartless
This is the land

Big Foot

Johnny Cash

Come Along and Ride This Train

1991

But the land was already claimed by a people
When the cowboy came and when the soldiers came
The story of the American Indian is in a lot of ways

And yall niggas really think yall that shit
Nigga please your rap shit is cheddar cheese
Your rap sheet dont mean a thing
Yall laughing when nigga bleeds
But

say what is your name baby
Have you been on a plane baby
Ok roll up this Jane baby
Always high it won't change baby
Living life fast switching lanes

of tolerance and unity
We're killin' with impunity so get that money
Fuckin' America
Fuckin' America

Welcome to the land of closeted tomfoolery
We're dyin' by

Iye iyeee
Iye iyeee

Kenya ni nyumbani kwangu
Proud to call her my mother land
Nafurahia watu wangu
I'm always feeling a mother's love

This is where

hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me.
One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone.
Not so much as a by your leave.

Step by Step

Bryan Duncan

Mercy

1993

Takin' it step by step
Like walkin' on water
To a land no man can see
Step by step by step
A little step closer to
The man I long to be

All the things

nothing you can take for granted
Surrounded by the primal fear
You close your eyes

No memories - no regrets
Unprotected and misplaced
In the corner with

and from who it is taken! 

so grind the wheels of time, 
it matters not if we live or die
in the lands  
of forgotten 
tongues 

Measures of men, they come

wherever I go by land, by sea
Offer her gold, she'll stand by me
And throw you a curve
Look, I met a girl
I met with a girl, she changing my world
I love her

what’s going on
It’s like we’re going backward, headed for the stones
This is my home and I'm gon stay
No matter the cost I claim this land
I ain't gon run

a project or a classic car race
He got it 'cause HE kept parkin’ in his parkin’ space
Woody Guthrie once said:
“This land is your land, this land is my land

There is a little house built on land
Now occupied by the White Man
On the plains Buffalo once roamed
That was once the Indian’s home
But that was such

State of Independence

Jon Anderson

Friends of Mr. Cairo

1981

today

(yayah)
(hey, hey)
Time, time again, it is said
We will hear, we will see
See it all-in his wisdom-hear
His truth will abound the land
This

halfway to 5 still alive I'm sphere
I'm even very queer yeah nature is gay
Every month is earth month every day is earth day!
Find me on the land harvesting

Sicker-sicker than your average
My Detroit-My Detroit Players
This that land that bend by the river
Making circular whirl pools to heavens gates
Non popular truth

This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was

your gods have walked away
And they left you bare alone in our care
Where reason is the enemy
And the guns that you wear they only scare beware until you

Daughters of the land and sons of the seas
Tides of war bring no guarantees
Called to arms, far and near
A bitter decree; shaped by fear
Village

feel the beat, move your feet
God is leading, no defeat
Oh, move, dance, to the Promised Land
With God we make our stand
God commanded, He was leading
In