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Crow Women: Pagan Music to Honor the Goddess: Music

Breaths

(Crowwomen - on their debut album "Crow Goddess")
c. Birago Diop & Ysaya Barnwell
chorus:
Listen more often to things than to beings
Listen more often to things than to beings
‘Tis the ancestor’s word
When the fire’s voice is heard
‘Tis the ancestor’s word
In the voice of the waters
Ah-ahh, wshh, ahh-wshh

Those who have died
Have never, never left
The dead are not under the earth
They are in the rustling trees
They are in the groaning woods
They are in the crying grass
They are in the moaning rocks
The dead are not under the earth, so

Those who have died
Have never, never left
The dead have a pact with the living
They are in the woman’s breast
They are in the wailing child
They are with us in the home
They are with us in the crowd
The dead have a pact with the living, so