A dance to honor Mother Earth | Jon Boogz and Lil Buck

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Mother Earth: Our end was imminent
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yet finality relented.
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Wind, water and fire gently revived;
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you and I reconciled,
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rhythms realigned,
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the blues gone green.
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Your care in conserving in exchange for my fruit
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and replenishing this picturous restoring of painted skies,
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mountains rolling,
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forest covering --
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no more warming.
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The purity and simplicity of how we used to be.
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You remember me?
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All I give to humanity?
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Housing, land, seas, birds,
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beast and all of mankind,
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exclusively the interface where you and the elements meet
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and vibrate harmoniously.
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(Piano plays)
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(Violin plays)
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(Music)
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(Music tempo quickens)
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(Violin plays)
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(Music)
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(Violin plays)
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(Music)
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(Music ends)
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(Applause)
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My beauty altered,
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muddied waters, fields stripped bare,
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interior scarred beyond repair,
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our memories eroding.
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You once obsessed over my frame
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and how I came to be;
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my nature, its polarity --
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how my sweet winds whisper softly, yet assault seas.
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You remember me?
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All I give to humanity?
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Housing, land, seas, birds,
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beast and all of mankind --
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exclusively the interface where you and the elements meet
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and vibrate harmoniously.
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The unseen traveler forever passing,
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carrying life,
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moving,
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awning of earth felt and heard,
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strong and stirring,
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blowing.
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Breathe you in, cleansing wind,
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gentle and still,
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quieter.
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The source eternally here,
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ascent and descending:
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air.
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Rhythmic flow,
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fluid and graceful,
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waves of serenity,
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smooth strings of purity,
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rains replenishing rapidly,
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rivers of dreams,
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raging springs covering earth in abundance,
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universal solvent dissolving,
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drink, liquid, life and power:
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water.
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Born when the universe was formed,
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warmed mankind,
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gave him light,
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colored rays illuminate ember flickers
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incandescent, powerful and brilliant.
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Sacred son of air, father of fury,
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heat dancing vigorously
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between perfection and beauty.
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Unconfined agility,
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fast and fancy,
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sparks of ingenuity rise:
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fire.
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(Canku One Star dances)
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(Choir chants)
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(Drums)
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(Drumming and chanting)
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(Drumming and chanting)
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(Drumming and chanting)
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(Music ends)
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(Applause)
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(Violin plays)
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(Music)
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(Music ends)
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(Applause)
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