Buffalo Calf Road - A. Savage

Water was the sacred power

That defined the plains

And with the sun promised the earth

To activate the grains

So the bison collected to graze with

Greasy was the grass grown by the rains

He who steals the fat comes soon

Sitting Bull explained

He spoke that land was not for men

To loan or exchange

After gold was bellowed from the bluffs that

Settlers came to occupy the range

Money was the white man’s god

Honor was his face

And in his eyes reminders of

A way of life erased

So the spirits are left with the bison, watch them

Living all their lives on day’s gaze

Made to worship Bibles in the place

Of the hunt

So said Custer to his men

Surveying the hills

They’ll vacate to their agencies

The ones that don’t we kill

And what guns and forced relocation can’t do

Alcohol and isolation will

After all the gold was gone

Oil came in its wake

Pale face stranded out and found

A new promise to break

Once their land and lore had been stolen there was

Nothing but their water left to take

Nothing but their spirits left to break

Buffalo Calf Road Woman

Watch the shadows dancing into the infinite

Custer’s horse became increasingly fast and then

She found her shot to have his body removed from it

Greasy was the grass grown by the rains

Greasy was the grass grown by the rains

Greasy was the grass grown by the rains

As they fell

Onto the freezing