Song Lyrics Band - Sacrifice    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> B>> Band Singer Lyrics [Band other resources]>> Sacrifice Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Band Music Title/Track: Sacrifice Theme ID: 4974 Album: N/A You know we have a million stories to tell I'm just one of a million or more stories that could be told Chorus: Sacrifice your freedom Sacrifice your prayer Take away your language Cut off all your hair Sacrifice the loved ones Who always stood by me Stranded in the wasteland Set my spirit free My name is Leonard Peltier I am a Lakota and Anishnabe And I am living in the United States penitentiary Which is the swiftest growing Indian reservations in the country I have been in prison since 1976 For an incident that took place on the Oglala-Lakota Nation There was a shoot-out between members of the American Indian Movement And The FBI and the local Sheriffs State Troopers Two agents were killed and one Indian was murdered Three of us were charged with the deaths of the FBI agents My co-defendants were found not-guilty by reasons of self-defense My case was separated and I was found guilty before a jury of non-Indian people The prosecutor stated that they did not know who killed their agents Nor did he know what participation Leonard Peltier may have played in it But someone has to pay for the crime There's a lot of nights that I lay in my cell And I can't understand why this hell this hell and this terror That I have been going through for twenty-one years hasn't ended Chorus But yet I know in my heart that someone has to pay sacrifice To make things better for our people The sacrifice I have made when I really sit down to think about it Is nothing compared to what our people a couple hundred years ago Or fifty years ago or twenty-five years ago have made Some gave their lives Some had to stand there and watch their children die in their arm Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Slippin and a Slidin, Small Town Talk, Smoke Signal, Soap Box Preacher, Somewhere Down The Crazy River, Sonny Got Caught In The Moonlight, Stage Fright, Stomp Dance (Unity), Strawberry Wine, Street Walker, Stuff You Gotta Watch, Sweet Fire Of Love, Sweet Romance, Take Your Partner by the Hand, Tears Of Rage, Testimony, Thats My Home, The Caves of Jericho, The Code of Handsome Lake, The Great Pretender, The Last Waltz, The Last Waltz Refrain, The Lights, The Moon Struck One, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (corrected), The Promised Land, The River Hymn, The Saga of Pepote Rouge, The Shape Im In, The Stones I Throw, The Weight, The Well, Thinkin Out Loud, This Wheels On Fire, Tiny Montgomery, Tired of Waiting, To Kingdom Come, Tombstone, Tonight, Too Much Of Nothing, Too Soon Gone, Tough Mama, Tura-Lura-Lural (Thats An Irish Lullaby), Twilight, Twisted Hair, Unbound, Unfaithful Servent, Up On Cripple Creek, Volcano, Other Band song Lyrics 4 Pantomime Lyrics A Change Is Gonna Come Lyrics Acadian Driftwood Lyrics Across The Great Divide Lyrics Aint Got No Home Lyrics Aint No More Cane Lyrics Aint That a Lot of Love Lyrics Akua Tuta Lyrics All La Glory Lyrics Amazon (River of Dreams) Lyrics American Roulette Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Band Ahmad Lyrics Band Aid Lyrics Band Aid 20 Lyrics Band De Soleil Lyrics Band Of Bees A Lyrics Band Ohne Namen Lyrics Band Ohne Namen (B.O.N) Lyrics Band Rah Lyrics Band Rollins Lyrics Band Zonder Banaan Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy