Look at me / What do you see?
This mask is only skin deep
I look like you / But Coyote spirit lives inside of me
I could be your brother
Your boss / Or your employee
You done fucked up, maker
Gone and made a race-traitor

I went to your schools and your churches
Bought the products you taught me to purchase
Your dreams, your magazines
Your internet searches
I served in your armed forces
Took your college courses
Used your academic source
To deconstruct your discourse
Now I'm sick of this trickle-down economy
Of sickle-cell blood money
You fed me scraps
Man, I still went hungry
Your first mistake?
Trying to placate me with the privilege
of lying in bed sick
with the guilt I had to live with
Living witness
To your international development missions
and yeah, I came back hella developed
When I was finished
Waking up was like
Waking from a dream
I saw your fake reality
Breakin apart at the seams

Now I'm that …

Bump in the night-time / Blip in your sight-line
stalling your pipe-line / family dog that bites I'm
brutality recorded / lies reported /
legal battles / sorry you cant afford it
court orders, porous borders / lost profit in your quarter
I ain't the kids scrawling grafitti
I'm the citizens that support it
Protestors / Protectors / Insurrection / Pissed off investors
Risk-adverse conditions / Burned insurance collectors
Unprospectable oil locked
in unexploitable sectors of soil
unexpectably indirectable yet inexplicably loyal
I'm educated children
solidarity for missing women
you talk about resistance
but it's you that's resisting
eventually you'll see like me
and we'll do things much different …

Look at me / What do you see?
This mask is only skin deep
I look like you / But Coyote spirit lives inside of me
I could be your brother
Your boss / Or your employee
Everything that is fixed
Will belong to the trickster

You built your house of cards high
Now the hurricane is coming
I watch you sweat while you stress
on your treadmill runnin
but there's no escape
I'm by your side when you wake
In your dreams when you sleep
treaties that you failed to keep
I felt the fever burnin through my veigns
wild-eyed spit on my lips
a wild stallion with no rider at the reigns
I felt the roots growin up through my feet
the call of the land
Tasted blood on my blade
On the day I became a man
I swim though chaos
like a fish in the sea
Old man raven comes to visit
in my sleep when I dream
An entourage of ancestors
long-since deceased
their skin stretched over skull masks
etched in fall leaves
I'm only certain reason
growing turning of the season
slowly burning and releasing
chosen learning it and teaching
and its spreading like a fire
out control
only sure way to survive it
is let go and take hold

Look at you / How do you do?
Take off your mask and come true
Coyote spirit in me / Recognize coyote in you
Welcome brother
I'll be my own boss / You can be your employee
And everything that is fixed
Will belong to the trickster