Heart of Silk-Samuel Lockridge

[ti:Heart of Silk] [ar:Samuel Lockridge] [al:When I Rise] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Heart of Silk - Samuel Lockridge [00:18.25]When I rise [00:22.60]Let me rise [00:27.04]Like a bird [00:29.49] [00:31.03]With no regret [00:33.87] [00:36.16]Joyfully [00:38.65] [00:40.63]When I fall [00:45.12]Let me fall [00:49.00] [00:49.72]Like a leaf [00:52.45] [00:53.73]With no regret [00:56.27] [00:58.76]Gracefully [01:01.54] [02:41.70]I will go farther than those hills [02:47.41] [02:48.57]Farther than the seas [02:53.17] [02:54.28]Close to the stars to beg my lord to return to me [03:02.49]The soul I had of old [03:07.07] [03:11.24]Of when I was a child [03:16.81] [03:17.43]Ripened with ledgends [03:22.11] [03:22.89]A feathered cap and a wooden sword [03:28.84]Fighting to see the wild restored [03:36.73] [03:55.31]Everything that has breath moves my bones [04:04.74] [04:08.84]To bow my head upon the mossy stone [04:19.32] [04:22.77]But not bow down in submission [04:28.67]Cause I don't need permission [04:33.31] [04:33.91]To exist resist or die [04:37.28] [04:39.34]Or ask for reasons why [04:43.91] [05:50.81]The year that I became a man [05:54.29]I pulled my head out of the sand [05:57.70]And saw the sun awake a sleeping earth [06:01.25]And ask her to return to him [06:04.92]The year that I became a man [06:08.30]I learned to work with my own hands [06:11.87]I lit a fire and watched the smoke [06:15.69]Carry all my carbon cares away