Humanifesto - Death By Exposure lyrics

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She lay there for weeks before they found her.<br />

Bury her as Jane Doe; send her hands to match for prints<br />

And lie about the cause of death to halt investigations<br />

You can't miss a bullet hole unless you look the other way<br />

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She came to protest, to make her voice heard<br />

And fight against corruption tearing up her nation<br />

Pine Ridge cover-up. Silence those who don't agree<br />

The Bureau's walls still shake when someone says her name<br />

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Anna Mae. Her story lives on.<br />

The Host World rises to take back what is theirs<br />

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Thirty years have passed and this case isn't solved<br />

Hidden in a mass of lies, will the truth ever prevail?<br />

Buried for the third time and they won't let her rest<br />

She's a martyr to the white man, a symbol of resistance<br />

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Looking for a scapegoat and pointing fingers back and forth<br />

To divert our attention, as they've always done<br />

In hope of once again, once again getting away<br />

With murdering an innocent and spilling blood across the land<br />

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Wounded Knee. Your earth is soiled<br />

With the blood of innocents and the powder from our guns<br />

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The sands of time are on an endless loop<br />

The repeated lies believed as truths<br />

Three decades passed, she's now back home<br />

Three decades passed, her killers never found<br />

Justice won't ever be served<br />

They'll never get what they deserved<br />

It's easier to get away when the ones out looking are your friends<br />

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"March, 1976... Sioux elders say the winds always howl<br />

When the body of a murder victim is moved.<br />

During the traditional wake and funeral given Anna Mae Pictou Aquash<br />

The week-end of March 12, 1976, a storm peaked<br />

Sending 30-mile-per-hour winds blasting across the desolate fields<br />

And shaking the rickety Jumping Bull Hall where the wake was being held."