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Trace your bloodline
They’ll take care of you
They're still your family
No matter what they’ve done to you
And the cold air stings my eyes
as I take his hand, he says,
“Just let your body do the rest”
Slave plantations
Got a lot of grass
It was my own temptation
But I made a lot of cash
And the cold air stings my eyes
as I take his hand, he says,
“Just let your body do the rest”
And the church bells ring
One million miles away from here
where nobody ever rests
It’s all over now
It’s in my soul
There’s no way out-
If I catch you breathing
And the cold air stings my eyes
as I take his hand, he says,
“Just let your body do the rest”
“Just let your body do the rest”
“Just let your body do the rest”
They’ll take care of you
They're still your family
No matter what they’ve done to you
as I take his hand, he says,
“Just let your body do the rest”
Got a lot of grass
It was my own temptation
But I made a lot of cash
as I take his hand, he says,
“Just let your body do the rest”
One million miles away from here
where nobody ever rests
It’s in my soul
There’s no way out-
If I catch you breathing
as I take his hand, he says,
“Just let your body do the rest”
“Just let your body do the rest”
“Just let your body do the rest”
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It's "Just let your body do the rest." Great song
molestation? prostitution? something of that sort seems to be going on in the song.
my first thought was molestation.
No no, it's about genetics. Orenda is lamenting the tragedies of her geneology by tracing her family roots and finding a slave plantation, presumably run by a woman who married for money. It is also a take on that culture; they (the dead) have taken with them the ringing of their church bells. It is also about genetic determinism; she doesn't want to wind up as her great grand whatever did.
The video is full of the different meanings of "taking hands"
it's about voodoo possession. being possessed by the spiritis of ancestors with a dark past of slavery and/or incest, or simply seeing the possession as dark and devilish and similar to rape, but in the end accepting it and letting go. the line "If I catch you breathing" it's sung in a completely different voice: I believe that's the spirit talking.
see also the faint's i disappear: same subject.
rape and marijuana.