Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Break-Up lyrics

I step over watery edges

He pulls the canoe across the ice

She paddles to the edge to collect candles
For her old ones to melt and then drink

You shoot ducks while it’s still easy
They gather at the edge thinking

They gather in the sky rethinking

They swim towards light thinking otherwise

Sun hit's you from above
You melt from the inside out

Faint ice as membrane
Sprеads sound across skin

I step over watery еdges



He pulls the canoe across the ice

Aabawe the first warmth of spring
Aabawe a loosening of the mind to forgive

They gather at the edge thinking
They gather in the sky rethinking

They swim towards light thinking otherwise

They gather at the edge thinking

They gather in the sky rethinking

They swim towards light thinking otherwise

We gathered in the winter lodge
Formed from earth and ice

We slowed prayed sang dreamt

Earth below world above
Waiting things out but together
The upper parts are exiled to the bottom
The lower parts deported to the surface

There is euphoric rising and falling
Orbit's of dispossession and reattachment

Achieving maximum density:
39 degrees fahrenheit

You relax at the surface
Spread apart cooler holding warmer

Regular repeated ordered locked

Lake as one mind

They gather at the edge thinking

They gather in the sky rethinking

They swim towards light thinking otherwise

They gather at the edge thinking

They gather in the sky rethinking

They swim towards light