
Date of issue: 01.06.2009
Record label: Vapor
Song language: English
Nobody's Story |
My blood is mixed |
My mother was ungumpai picani, my father was habsoluca |
This mixture was not respected; |
as a small boy I was often left to myself |
So I spent many months stalking the Elk people, to prove i would soon become a |
good hunter |
One day finally, my Elk relatives took pity on me, and a young Elk gave his |
life to me |
With only my knife, I took his life |
As I was preparing to cut the meat white men came upon me, they were English |
soldiers |
I cut one with my knife but they hit me on the head, with a rifle |
All went black; |
my spirit seemed to leave me |
I was then taken east, in a cage |
I was taken to Toronto, then Philadelphia, and then to New York; |
and each time I arrived in another city, somehow the white man had moved all |
thier people there ahead of me |
Each new city contained the same white people as the last, and I could not |
understand how a whole city of people could be moved so quickly |
Eventually, I was taken on a ship across the great sea, over to England, |
and I was paraded before them like a captured animal, an exhibit |
So I mimicked them, imitating their ways, hoping they might lose interest in |
this young savage, but their interest only grew |
I was copying them so they placed me into the white mans school |
It was there that I discovered, in a book, the words that William Blake had |
written |
They were powerful words and they spoke to me |
So I made careful plans and eventually I escaped |
Once again I crossed the great ocean |
I saw many sad things as I made my way back to the lands of my people |
Once they realized who I was, the stories of my adventures angered them |
They called me a liar |
Xebachae-he who talks loud saying nothing |
Ridiculed by my own people, and I was left to wander the earth alone |
I am Nobody |
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