Name: For the Change
Duration: P00H03M49S
Description: “For the Change,” by Michigan singer-songwriter, May Erlewine, contemplates this moment of reckoning, the role that her own actions or inactions may have played in their suppuration, and the work required to heal. “How can I bring my pain to the river, when the river itself I did drain? How did I let my greed get so thirsty? How can I show up for the change?”

May Erlewine - For the Change

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“For the Change,” by Michigan singer-songwriter, May Erlewine, contemplates this moment of reckoning, the role that her own actions or inactions may have played in their suppuration, and the work required to heal. “How can I bring my pain to the river, when the river itself I did drain? How did I let my greed get so thirsty? How can I show up for the change?”

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For the Change
06.28.20

How could I bring my pain to the river
When the river itself I have drained
How could I let my greed get so thirsty
And How will I show up for the change

How could I learn the song of a bird
If I kept her locked up in a cage?
How could I sing it, myself so freely
And How will I show up for the change?

I see the path
Laid out before me
I want to find a new way
I want to walk with the others
With my sisters and brothers
And I want to show up for the change

How can I listen to the sound of a silence,
The hands of my ancestors made
How could I turn my eyes from that violence?
And how will I show up for the change?

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from U.S.P.S. - United Songwriters for the People's Sovereignty, released October 2, 2020

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