Black Elk Speaks

Lyrics:

• "white heat, was on our tracks and the four legs on the run
• white heat, on our back and burning like a sun
• we walked, walked til there was nowhere left to go
• we walked, many fell down, bloody in the snow"


• "white heat was on our tracks and growing to a flood
• white heat was on our backs and speaking like a gun
• we fought, fought 'til there was nowhere left to go
• we fell, a pool of red 'neath passing wheels of mud and snow"


• Black Elk, I did not know then how much was at an end
• Black Elk, I see it now from the high hill of old age
• Black Elk, I see the people scattered along the gulch
• Black Elk, I see it now as when I saw with young eyes


• and I see....something else died in the bloody snow
• I see...a people's dream died there;
• it was a beautiful dream
• It was a beautiful dream