Band The Sacrifice Lyrics

Sacrifice Lyrics

You know we have a million stories to tell

 I'm just one of a million or more stories that could be told

 

 Chorus:

 Sacrifice your freedom

 Sacrifice your prayer

 Take away your language

 Cut off all your hair

 Sacrifice the loved ones

 Who always stood by me

 Stranded in the wasteland

 Set my spirit free

 

 My name is leonard peltier

 I am a lakota and anishnabe

 And i am living in the united states penitentiary

 Which is the swiftest growing

 Indian reservations in the country

 

 I have been in prison since 1976

 For an incident that took place on the oglala-lakota nation

 There was a shoot-out between members of the american indian movement

 And the fbi and the local sheriffs state troopers

 Two agents were killed and one indian was murdered

 

 Three of us were charged with the deaths of the fbi agents

 My co-defendants were found not-guilty by reasons of self-defense

 My case was separated and i was found guilty before a jury of non-indian

 People

 The prosecutor stated that they did not know who killed their agents

 Nor did he know what participation leonard peltier may have played in it

 But someone has to pay for the crime

 

 There's a lot of nights that i lay in my cell

 And i can't understand why this hell this hell and this terror

 That i have been going through for twenty-one years hasn't ended

 

 Chorus

 

 But yet i know in my heart that someone has to pay sacrifice

 To make things better for our people

 The sacrifice i have made when i really sit down to think about it

 Is nothing compared to what our people a couple hundred years ago

 Or fifty years ago or twenty-five years ago have made

 Some gave their lives

 Some had to stand there and watch their children die in their arms

 So the sacrifice i have made is nothing compared to those

 

 I've gone too far now to start backing down

 I don't give up

 Not 'til my people are free will i give up

 And if i have to sacrifice some more

 Then i sacrifice some more