Smoke (Acteal) chords by Lila Downs

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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How dark is the smoke that fall from the sky
And soaked in our blood are
The feathers of time
More women and children were
Killed on that night
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More than they could count when
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They threw 'em in trucks
Some children were kneeling
The saints were all calm
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Machetes and gunshots reveal
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all the blood
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The papers recounted
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the story we know
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Yet silence is deep as the
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hundreds of souls
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And the hundreds of hopes of our people
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Now every one's waiting and
Hoping for justice
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But will there be goodness where
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Men kill their own?
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Our wise people say that the
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Mouth of the earth has swallowed her fruit
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But the eagle and snake
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Will stand for the truth
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When the mother of corn has spoken
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Oh axe of our fire, bring justice to life
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For we know that power
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Was once sacrifice and it was sacrifice
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And it was sacrifice of our people