Album: Freaky Styley (1985)

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• Oh give me a home
  Where the buffalo roam
  And the death of a race is a game
  Where seldom is heard
  
  A peaceable word
  From the white trash
  Who killed as they came
  Though these words dig deep
  They offer no relief
  God save the queen
  I am an Indian chief
  
  There is a secret I keep
  It's called the talking leaf
  And you better believe
  That he speaks his beliefs
  Like a rock that bleeds
  A sea of grief
  
  My talking leaf speaks of
  A wounded knee creek
  American ghost dance
  A new man who is with old ways
  He walks the streets of life
  
  But he's in chains
  I'm alive he cried
  I can feel the flame
  Burning red inside
  I am an Indian brave
  There is a memory
  
  That lives in my blood
  Of the brand you laid
  On all you touched
  But the burning flame
  Turns to burning pain
  Genuine genocide
  
  And that's truly insane
  So like a wild hurricane
  I will dance on the grave
  Of my race that died
  When it should have been saved
  American ghost dance Writer/s: ANTHONY KIEDIS, CLIFF MARTINEZ, MICHAEL PETER BALZARY
  Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

• Biscuit from D.c., United StatesThe Ghost Dance wasn't performed thousands of years ago. It originated in the west by another man, I think in Nevada or that area, in the late 1800's, and was adopted by we, the Lakota and is significant when Wounded Knee occured in 1890.
• Louise from Durhama beast of a song! fantasic work. xx especially the very start.
• Daniel from Victoria, Canadathanks for the facts champ but this song obviously has more then singing bass and horns you can easily hear drums and guitar in the whole thing it just hitting like palm muted strings and random things in the verse and can be quite easily be heard in the corus
• Kevin from Canada, CanadaThe ghost dance was banned by the MAericans and participants in it were massacred. In South Dakota hundreds of women and children and dance participants were slayed for danceing. Its was a movement preached by a leader called The prophet. He claimed dancer who wore a special shirt would be impervious to the soldiers bullets. In spite of thebest attempts by the Americans. Native Americans today dance. It was not lost or forgotten. It went underground for years> The past thirty years have seen the dance culture return. Societies of dancers. Its just as real today as when they were performed by our anscestors thousands of years ago.

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