Red Earth, Still Screams

Intro (Chanted / Whispered over drums)

We were here.

We are still here.

The earth remembers.

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Verse 1

Smoke rose before the sun did

Rifles sang their iron prayer

Boots tore through our sleeping ground

Like we weren’t even there

Mothers cried into the dirt

Fathers fell where they stood

They called it land, they called it fate

We called it blood.

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Pre-Chorus (Low, building)

They drew their lines across our sky

With fire and lead and lies

We watched the spirits leave their skin

And climb.

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Chorus (Haunting, layered vocals)

You took our songs and burned them down

You took our children, chained the sound

But the red earth still screams your name

It won’t forget, it won’t be tamed

We are the bones beneath your road

We are the truth you can’t unload

You thought you killed us in the dust—

We live.

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Verse 2

I saw the elders fall in rows

Like trees split by the storm

Saw white men laugh with shaking hands

As they tore our world apart

They said we were in the way

Said God was on their side

But no god walks through slaughter

With pride.

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Pre-Chorus

Every bullet carved a story

Into the ground we swore to keep

You can’t bury what’s alive

In me.

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Chorus (Full Force)

You took our songs and burned them down

You took our children, chained the sound

But the red earth still screams your name

It won’t forget, it won’t be tamed

We are the bones beneath your road

We are the truth you can’t unload

You thought you killed us in the dust—

We live.

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Bridge (Breakdown — drums + vocal chant)

You called it conquest

We call it theft

You called it progress

We call it death

Say our names

Say them loud

The dead are listening

Now.

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Solo Section

(Guitar bends like wailing voices, feedback swelling)

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Final Chorus (Slower, heavier, more haunting)

You took our songs but not our breath

You took our land, you brought us death

Still the red earth knows our face

Still the drums beat time and place

We are the fire you tried to drown

We rise from every broken ground

You thought you ended us in flame—

We remain.

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Outro (Spoken / Whispered)

We were hunted.

We were buried.

We are not gone.