Wahwahtay Benais - Survival Is Necessary [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

"Survival Is Necessary"

[Intro:]
School press conference?
Press this on your conscious


[Chorus:]
Survival is necessary
And my indigenous vocabulary
Need to be carried
Before they passing
Cause of old age
They hold the wisdom of the old ways
Keep it living it's the mission
Our survival is necessary
[Repeat x1]

[Verse One:]
You know it's true
When you feeling them chills
You just related to it
You know it's real
When you see them tears
Rolling down the face of an elder
I hate the feeling of failure
And I'm trained that my feet never fail me
Never maybe it's a must
We survive in these modern times
You out dumping to them fiends
People dying
Put the gun to where he dreams
Over colors over c.r.e.a.m
Out my mind all the time
You don't work you don't eat
On my grind it's essential like water
For my tribe for my son and my daughter
For my people to survive
Know your past we alive and we living in hell
We faced assimilation
They put my people in jail
Just for speaking the truth
You want our people to fail
Ain't no breaking these roots
I'm indigenous I'm militant
I battle with words
You never break cause it turns
I swear to God
I'm gonna keep the fire burning
In this drum drum


[Chorus:]
Survival is necessary
And my indigenous vocabulary
Need to be carried
Before they passing
Cause of old age
They hold the wisdom of the old ways
Keep it living it's the mission
Our survival is necessary
[Repeat x1]


[Verse Two:]
I ain't looking up to dealers and bangers
Ain't got to follow the beat
You want a shallow grave
Filled with them hallows to sleep
I got kids I got to raise I'm not a soldier
But more a father and a warrior
Who hold it down and I fight for our cause
You know I'm native when I'm speaking my tongue
You know we're native
When we're living our traditions in harmony son
It ain't the .22's gleaming
Or the 25 to life
Not the fees or the ice
You can feast on what I write
I'm a peace pipe giving you balance
You want to eat right
Don't listen to the garbage around us
Cause its made to bring us down
Son I'm proud cause I'm brown
Yo we rich with tradition
Let the drum sound
It's my mission to bring this if you listen
You hear them it's our people
That have pass
Now the time for us to stand
To unite come together as one
Pick it up and carry on
For the sake of our survivors and sons

[Chorus:]
Survival is necessary
And my indigenous vocabulary
Need to be carried
Before they passing
Cause of old age
They hold the wisdom of the old ways
Keep it living it's the mission
Our survival is necessary
[Repeat x1]