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
🎥 Created by Evermind Media for Deer Park Monastery