The Ancestors' Song

by Brother PeaceDecember 1, 2022

This song of remembrance and of gratitude to our ancestors is offered by Brother Peace.

Lyrics:

"All my ancestors' ancestors' ancestors' ancestors told me

Remember to remember to remember to remember me

All I worked for and strived for and lived for and died for

All my mistakes and heartbreaks and hot takes and half-baked dreams

Now I've been here and been here and been here and been here enough times

And I still don't or still won't or still can't know what it all means

I just keep rooting down through the earth who embraced you

Letting sunlight come shine through my leaves

And you said: let me die so you can live

There's so much joy you have to give

Remember, child, whatever you do

We'll always love you

After years without reprieve you set out to relieve your sorrows

To the room filled with wounds and the doom of the soon someday free

Would you let go and bring woe and say no to endless tomorrow?

Would you give it all up in a brief moment of agony?

Now we pick up the pieces, we learn what releases our suffering

There's a path leading fast from the past that will last till the spring

When we learn how to stop sound and look 'round at glowing pure beauty

Taking care of our feelings, there's no end to the healing it brings

And you said to me: let me die so you can live

There's so much joy you have to give

Remember, child, whatever you do

We'll always love you

Let me die so you can live

There's so much joy you have to give

Remember, child, whatever you do

We'll always love you"

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🎙 Lyrics and music by Brother Peace

📌Recorded at Deer Park Monastery, USA, in January 2022