Skoden

Verse 1

Counting my days in a shorter calendar

Life ends at sixty while the world plays manager

Statistically silent but I'm yelling at the monitor

One percent remains and I'm the designated challenger

Manifest Destiny in reverse

I'm the nightmare that they couldn't bury in a hearse

Thirst for the water but the tap is running dry

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

Infrastructure gaps got me living kerosene nights

Tank water ritual for these everyday fights

Ghost dance in the gutter while I'm dodging the law

Sovereign in a cage but I'm breaking a paw

Ancestors wilder than your wildest of dreams

Flipping back rent on these industry schemes

Your founding fathers were my first trespassers

I'm the un-terminated flow for the masses

Chorus

Stoodis then

Skoden

I'm the ghost they forgot in the open

Stoodis then

Skoden

Sovereign soul and my spirit is golden

No smallpox blanket could stifle the light

I'm the warrior rising in the middle of the night

Skoden

Aho

Verse 2

Boarding school fence is my family tree

Kill the Indian save the man they failed on me

Now my braids are heavy with the trauma of the past

Sprinting for the future but I'm running too fast

Commodity cheese and a block of bad debt

I'm a prisoner of war in my backyard yet

Blood money per-cap never fixed a damn thing

BIA bureaucrats pulling on the string

Urban relocation got me lost in the grit

Concrete warrior I ain't ever gonna quit

Scalping the system for a piece of the pie

Native please look me dead in the eye

Got digital smoke signals burning the net

I’m the only one here without a travel permit

Pre-Columbian flow older than the gold chain

I'm the 7th Generation bringing back the rain

Chorus

Stoodis then

Skoden

I'm the ghost they forgot in the open

Stoodis then

Skoden

Sovereign soul and my spirit is golden

No smallpox blanket could stifle the light

I'm the warrior rising in the middle of the night

Skoden

Aho

Bridge

They want my culture for a postcard scene

But they hate my brown face on the street so mean

Intergenerational ghosts in the room

I'm the 1491 flower starting to bloom

I'm the anomaly

The statistical threat

I’m the debt collectors never ever met

Sovereignty isn't a grant from the crown

It’s the deed in my DNA when the sun goes down

Verse 3

Seven generations coming home for the crown

Building empires where they burned it all down

Medicine in the bass and a strap in the hand

The original owner of the motherfucking land

Custer's luck running out at the gate

I’m the manifest nightmare sealed in your fate

Iron horse tracks cutting through my chest

But the soul is un-surrendered I'm the best in the West

One in five falling to the bottle or the smoke

But I’m flipping the tragedy to something they broke

Apple on the inside get away from my camp

I’m the traditional light in a kerosene lamp

Aho to the struggle and the blood and the mud

I’ve got thousand-year-old water pumping through my blood

Chorus

Stoodis then

Skoden

I'm the ghost they forgot in the open

Stoodis then

Skoden

Sovereign soul and my spirit is golden

No smallpox blanket could stifle the light

I'm the warrior rising in the middle of the night

Skoden

Aho

Outro

We still here

Through the dirt and the dust

Unconquered

Un-surrendered

Still here

Back rent

Collect it all

Skoden

Aho