DIY Time Machine - Moor Mother

My father can no longer speak

Something about pneumonia

Something in his brain

Something about swinging low sweet chariots

Laying there in Vietnam

I got war on my back get it off get it off

I got war on my back get it off get it off

Gave me that ease

He gave me all this heroin to sell

Help me poison the community

I came home all blown up

I got death on my back

I got death on my back

Swing low sweet chariots

Then (?) this penitentiary

So I can find religion

Get this death off my back

Sing it for me

Clutching brown bibles

With corn-rows in your hair

Sing it for me

On the phone through the glass while the nurse watching

She took my legs, I ain’t leaving

I’ll be here with this song in my head

They got me after all that running

After all them prayer since I was a little boy

My father baptized by the word

And run-ins with the holy ghost

Singing low to touch someone

We was singing in the penitentiary you know

Singing away the years

One time we sung the same song for five years

Next thing I knew, I was home back in the projects