This Lyric is: #169

FREEDOM
Copyright 2002 Hillbunny Productions
Words and Music by Bunny Sings Wolf

Freedom frightens faint-hearted ones for they’re afraid to fly
Rather than walk in beauty, they just choose to die.
For freedom chases a rainbow and catches it in a dream
Swallows it whole inside itself, as a river consumes a stream.

Freedom is a star fire shining, so far above the moon,
And lacks nothing in it’s passion, for it’s always full of room
And freedom glows with sunlight and helps the flowers bloom.
Oh won’t you COME along, and LEARN freedom’s song?

Chorus:
Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo. Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo.
Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo.
Taninyan nawajinyo okihi

It’s natural ways are foreign to the likes of modern man,
Yet it drifts high with clouds of laughter and loves where ever it can
And tracks across the night snow just to kiss a distant land.
Oh won’t you come along, and SING freedom’s song.

Chorus:
Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo. Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo.
Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo.
Taninyan nawajinyo okihi

I fly high without a parachute, I fly high without a plane,
My wings aren’t drenched in alcohol,
I fly high without cocaine,
For I am high on the GIFT of life,
that runs rampant in our veins.

I thrill with the love of brotherhood, and I know this love
Can bring world change.
I’m flyin high, I’m flying free,
since I learned that true freedom LIVES (in me)!


Freedom walks before me, now I follow in her step.
Confinement no longer hides me, I no longer feel inept.
She takes me to her mountain where now I sing out her song
A lullaby of comfort with the sounds to heal all wrong
Oh won’t you sing along, yes sing freedom’s song.

Chorus:
Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo. Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo.
Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo.
Taninyan nawajinyo okihi


If only they would listen, if everyone would see,
ALL could live in freedom and learn her melody,
oh how grand this life would be!
Yes the whole world would be free and sing
“Freedom lives – in me!”
Oh won’t you sing along,
and LIVE IN freedom’s song!

Chorus:
Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo. Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo.
Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye, Hoye wa yelo.
Taninyan nawajinyo okihi

Taninyan nawajinyo okihi
Wa o, Wicozani
Oyate! Iya wa oo welo Yanipi kta ca


Footnote: Chorus TRANSLATION:
Respectfully - following is the Lakota translation of chorus – roughly:
Hoye - Send a voice – as in a prayer put into action
Hoye wa yelo - I am sending a voice
Taninyan nawajinyo okihi - Stand up, manifest it, it can be done.
Wa o – I come
Wicozani – Good health
Oyate – Nation! (Not just relatives or extended family, but ALL our relations, the four legged, two legged, plant and root “people”, stars, rocks – all that IS, creation)
Iya wa oo welo yanipi kta ca – that the “people (Oyate)” – may LIVE!

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[This message has been edited by blakeh (edited 09-01-2002).]

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