Song lyrics
ALBUM: Origin (2021)
Down to the River by Kamila Martel (Cracker Cats
Wait, Love by Sally Titasey
The Scoop by Sally Titasey
Deeper by Betty Supple
This Machine by Betty Supple
Come In by Sally Titasey & Beth Stupple
DOWN TO THE RIVER by Kamila Martel (Cracker Cats)
CHORUS 1
I’m going down to the river
Sing my song
Down to the river to stay
I’m going down to the river
Sing my song
Wash all my cares away
VERSE 1
I’ve got a fierce rage
That’s plagued me for days
Wash all my cares away
I’ve got a heat so great
I’ve been weak for days
Wash all my cares away
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
I’ve got a deep pain
Where the darkness stays
Wash all my cares away
Until the dim rays
They all chill and fade
Wash all my cares away
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
I’m gonna wash all my cares away
I’m gonna wash all my cares away
I’m going down to the river
Sing my song
Wash all my cares away.
WAIT LOVE by Sally Titasey
VERSE 1
Hands folding.
She is holding the crown
As the bottom falls out of a
Life waiting
To be carried home.
For the love to be shown, but she’s
Left wanting
To have and to hold
She’s oppressed and controlled
But she stands firmly
Because she knows
There’s nowhere else to go.
And don’t you…
CHORUS 1
Wait love, wait love
Wait for me, wait for me
Don’t you
Wait love, wait love
Wait for me, wait for me
VERSE 2
The power of the love she holds within the hate
It’s got the power to kill, the power to create
And one act one instant could seal a fate
A decision she did or did not make
A message from the deep a visceral call
A meaning conveyed with no words at all
No thoughts only shadows looming tall
Moving through the body pushing up against the walls of
Flesh and skin and muscle and bone
A sense of moving through an ocean alone
A darkness so profound
A wire tightly wound
In the absence of sound
We claw for solid ground
We’re moving up and up and up
Til we break the surface
Til the morning sun shines on us again
Don’t you….
CHORUS 2
BRIDGE
She’s flying like a butterfly to the island
She’s flying in the eye of the storm over the ocean
She’s flying like a butterfly to the island
She’s flying in the eye of the storm over the ocean
We’re moving up and up and up
Til we break the surface
Til the morning sun shines on us again
Don’t you …
CHORUS 3 (last one! slows down)
Wait love, wait love
Wait for me, wait for me
Don’t you
Wait love, wait love
Wait for me, please wait….
THE SCOOP by Sally T
VERSE 1
Who you been talking to, my love
Who’s got your back? Who’s got your front? Who’s by your side
I think I’m under an invisible attack, my love
But then again it could be all in my mind
And we been walkin’ around just a same ol’ samin’
And it pains me to think you’ve been campaigning
Against the things I do
Or maybe I did that to you
Word gets back like a homing pigeon
And no one wants to go around burning bridges
But as far as I can tell
There’s always somebody talking ‘bout somebody else
And …
CHORUS 1
Tell me, baby, what the truth is lately
Oooh oooh oooh
Squeeze me some juice
Hey ey and
Tell me, baby
Who else is crazy
Oooh oh oh oooh
Dish me a scoop
VERSE 2
I haven’t seen you in so long
Oh but your sadness sticky seeps out the cracks
The gap grows wider every day
But it seems as though there’s no turning back
Now I’m a aching to know if I’m something to ya
Try to mind my business but tell me do ya
Have anything to say
I wish you’d throw something my way
I could ask you to care or I could sit here and wait
For the day you decide to participate
But I can’t wait that long
I think it’s safe to say my assumptions were wrong
And …
CHORUS 2
BRIDGE
Time’s sneaking by
And the echoes
Of these secrets we try to hide
Now the dream that once inspired
Is now a nightmare
Inside your mind
So come on and ….
CHORUS 3
DEEPER by Betty Supple
VERSE 1
Pick your dirty deeds up off the floor
We don’t wanna pretend with you anymore
Ground into mother, feel intuit so we don’t
hurt her body just to make it through
CHORUS 1
River bleeds deeper than me
Carry her water out to see
Valley digs deeper than you
Deeper than paycheck we hold on to
River bleeds deeper than me
Carry her water out to see
Valley digs deeper than you
Deeper than paycheck we hold on to
VERSE 2
Making noise, making noise
Listen, listen.
Birth breath completely
Deep and subtle rhythm, rhythm.
With all decisions that we make
Coming generations raise the stake
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
Look at that baby child, worry for her livin’
What will her grandchild have left to be given
What if her great grandchild gets born in to
A life that’s been damned by dirty deeds we do
CHORUS 3
THIS MACHINE by Betty Supple
VERSE 1
How long can us people
Keep kicking the wall?
What is it made of?
What is it standing for?
For what will it give up?
When will it fall?
CHORUS 1
This machine is broken
We’re just moving through the motions
But you can’t tell the ocean
When it’s time to come in
And it’s coming in.
VERSE 2
We’ve practiced so much patience
Signed petitions, prayers sent
Sentient beings sensing the freeing
Of breaking cage open
Smashing the state of affairs
Til it’s fair cos it’s not fair
It’s not loving, it’s not sane
It’s not sane, it’s not just
Perhaps we must, must we
Muster the strength of
The weight of the ocean
Flow of the river
Song of the singer in you
In you
In you
CHORUS 2
COME IN by Betty Supple & Sally Titasey
CHORUS 1
Come in, come in child
You are being called
Lay down your burden
You don’t have to bear it all
Come in, come in child
Come in and be small
The gate is wide open
And the writing’s on the wall
VERSE 1
We have one big choice
We are leaning towards survival
(Don’t kill us all)
It’ll feel so good to heed this call
(Don’t kill us all)
Bring down your house, Bring it down
We can’t wait for you to find ground
Now stand down, stand down.
PRECHORUS 1
For your grandchildren
(Stand down)
For their children, too
(Stand down)
For indigenous rights
(Stand down)
We’re looking to you
(Stand down)
Still colonizing
(Stand down)
And it’s a crime
(Stand down)
How many more years?
(Stand down)
No more racist genocide
(Stand down)
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
What does it mean to you to be human?
Tell the truth to yourself and see the things that you’re doing.
It’s big! You’re making history!
Putting industry before human equality.
Again! My friend, it’s time to change the story,
To admit power and money will never equal glory
There’s no glory that comes from taking a stand
Against an ancient people trying to protect the land.
PRECHORUS 2
For the babies
(Stand down)
For your mother
(Stand down)
For survival
(Stand down)
For freedom
(Stand down)
We’re looking at you
(Stand down)
We can help just
(Stand down)
RCMP
(Stand down)
John Horgan, white man,
(Stand down)
CHORUS
BRIDGE
There’s hope. You have a heart.
Be brave. Set yourself apart.
You’re strong. Let go.
You feel it. You know.
You hear us. You know it’s true.
Everyone’s watching, waiting for you.
Breathe deep. Come ‘round.
Step up. Stand down.
CHORUS (outro)
Come in, come in child
You are being called.
Lay down your weapons ……