Bad Indian

Drop

S-S-Skoden

A-A-Aho

Verse 1

Got a sovereign mindset

I am the glitch in the system

Born into a jurisdiction web where the laws only miss him

Blood quantum DNA check trying to dilute the soul

While my calendar is shorter cause I’m reaching the goal

Only sixty four years to see it all

I'm a ghost dance on the chart

Manifest destiny in reverse I’m the part

Of the map that you missed when you paved the street

Got the deed in my DNA I’m moving my feet

Kerosene nights looking for a spark in the dark

My family tree is just a boarding school fence mark

Seventy percent of the block is waiting on a tank of water

Still we raising up every single son and the daughter

I am the nightmare they couldn't bury in the ground

Thirteen hundred years later still hearing the sound

Chorus

Stoodis

Let it go

I must be a bad Indian cause I’m still alive

Skoden

Let it go

Braid the trauma into strength just to survive

Stoodis

Let it go

Counting back rent on the land they couldn't buy

Skoden

Let it go

Still here still breathing underneath the red sky

Drop

S-S-Skoden

A-A-Aho

Verse 2

I’m a POW in my own backyard

Walking two worlds and the terrain is hard

Digital smoke signals from the middle of the dust

My ancestors' wildest dream is built on the trust

That I wouldn't surrender or sign the line

I am a one percent anomaly outrunning the time

Call me an urban scout navigating concrete vines

Smallpox blankets and the dirty designs

BIA acting like an overlord for the pay

But they can't manage a spirit that won't fade away

Dry tap running but the spirit is flooded

Frybread power and the vision is blooded

They want the culture for the postcard views

But they hate the face on the six o’clock news

Treaty breaker flow I don’t talk to the snakes

Scalping the system for the pieces it takes

Chorus

Stoodis

Let it go

I must be a bad Indian cause I’m still alive

Skoden

Let it go

Braid the trauma into strength just to survive

Stoodis

Let it go

Counting back rent on the land they couldn't buy

Skoden

Let it go

Still here still breathing underneath the red sky

Bridge

Maybe I survive

Maybe you survive

Maybe we survive

The iron horse is rusted

The iron horse is busted

The iron horse is gone

Ancestor approved when I speak the truth

Unconquered

Unsurrendered

Unbroken

Chorus

Stoodis

Let it go

I must be a bad Indian cause I’m still alive

Skoden

Let it go

Braid the trauma into strength just to survive

Stoodis

Let it go

Counting back rent on the land they couldn't buy

Skoden

Let it go

Still here still breathing underneath the red sky

Drop

S-S-Skoden

A-A-Aho

Stoodis

Skoden

Skoden

Stoodis

Still here

Aho