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neil young - nobody's story lyrics

my blood is mixed
my mother was ungumpai picani, my father was habsoluca
this mixture was not respected; as a small boy i was often left to myself
so i spent many months stalking the elk people, to prove i would soon become a good hunter
one day finally, my elk relatives took pity on me, and a young elk gave his life to me
with only my knife, i took his life
as i was preparing to cut the meat white men came upon me, they were english soldiers
i cut one with my knife but they hit me on the head, with a rifle
all went black; my spirit seemed to leave me
i was then taken east, in a cage
i was taken to toronto, then philadelphia, and then to new york; and each time i arrived in another city, somehow the white man had moved all thier people there ahead of me
each new city contained the same white people as the last, and i could not understand how a whole city of people could be moved so quickly
eventually, i was taken on a ship across the great sea, over to england, and i was paraded before them like a captured animal, an exhibit
so i mimicked them, imitating their ways, hoping they might lose interest in this young savage, but their interest only grew
i was copying them so they placed me into the white mans school
it was there that i discovered, in a book, the words that william blake had written
they were powerful words and they spoke to me
so i made careful plans and eventually i escaped
once again i crossed the great ocean
i saw many sad things as i made my way back to the lands of my people
once they realized who i was, the stories of my adventures angered them
they called me a liar
xebachae-he who talks loud saying nothing
ridiculed by my own people, and i was left to wander the earth alone
i am n0body

- neil young lyrics

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