We Take Control

Intro – ambient river, soft hand drum, distant chant) Yeah… yeah… From the land, from the river… you hear that? (soft flute enters) ⸻ (Verse 1 – beat drops, boom-bap with hand drum layer) Came from the dirt where the cold wind blow, Stories in my blood that the old ones know, River keep talkin’, yeah it guide my flow, Every step I take got a place I go. City lights flash but I don’t get lost, Paid in truth, never count that cost, Voice of my people when I spit that sound, From the rez to the street, yeah we hold that ground. ⸻ (Hook – powwow chant + melodic vocal layer) Hey—stand tall, don’t fall, hear the drum when it call, From the roots we rise, never fade, never small, Ohhh—this land in my soul, yeah it made me whole, We don’t break, we bend, then we take control. ⸻ (Verse 2 – add bass + rattle percussion, more aggressive flow) Talk that real, no cap, yeah I move like that, Ancestors watch when I walk this path, Pain turn power when I write these lines, Every scar got truth in between them rhymes. They tried silence, tried bury the voice, Now we louder than ever, yeah we makin’ that choice, From the struggle we build, from the ashes we climb, Got the past in my heart and the future in time. ⸻ (Bridge – stripped back, flute + vocal echo) (half-time feel) Hear the wind say… remember your name, Fire don’t die, it just change its flame… ⸻ (Hook – full drums + group chant, higher energy) Hey—stand tall, don’t fall, hear the drum when it call, From the roots we rise, never fade, never small… ⸻ (Outro – fade to river + chant) Yeah… still here… always here…