Six Miles

Our people will not be defined by our traumas

The connection that we have to these lands

And waters and of course to each other

Is far greater than anything that they can do to us

They’ve tried to beat it out of us

They’ve tried to over incarcerate us

Residential school it out of us

But it remains

Land Back is an invitation

An invitation to those that have been lost

All the brothers and sisters

That have been stolen from our nations

And there are many that we are calling home

For us we’ve been fighting for Land Back since contact

Our fight here at Six Nations

Has been about our six miles on each side of that Grand River

And now

That six miles

Well, that was just the beginning

You spread like cancer through the land

Can’t wash red blood off a white man’s hands

No, you can’t

Try to make your people understand

That’s why they call it, home and native land

Home and native land

Give it all back, give it all back

Just to take it away, take it away

Give it all back, give it all back

Just to take it away, don’t you take it away

Don’t you take it away

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Sending shivers down your spine

I’m just asking for what’s mine, yeah

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Of the river

Of the river

Here comes the rain

And it’s made

From our grandmothers tears

They watch the water

They watched our daughters disappear

They watched the water

They watched their daughters

They watched the waters

Watched their daughters disappear

Give it all back, give it all back

Just to take it away, take it away

Give it all back, give it all back

Just to take it away, don’t you take it away

Don’t you take it away

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Sending shivers down your spine

I’m just asking for what’s mine, yeah

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Of the river

Of the river

Give it all back, give it all back

Just to take it away, don’t you take it away

Give it all back, give it all back

Just to take it away, don’t you take it away

Give it all back, give it all back

Don’t you take it away

Don’t you take it away

Don’t you take it away

Give it all back, give it all back

Don’t you take it away

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Six miles each side of the river

Of the river

Of the river

Of the river, six miles each side