N'we Jinan Artists - "BANNOCK ELEVATION" // Constance Lake, ON
"BANNOCK ELEVATION" was written by the grade nine youth of Constance Lake First Nation at Mamawmatawa Holistic Education Centre.
Lyrics written and recorded by: Terrance Dillon, Xzavion Ineese, Kayley Baxter-Wesley, Myles Shaganash, Aaron Sutherland, Jude Terry, Nigahnee Lefebvre, Lincoln Q, Ryan Wesley, & Saphira Payne.
Special thanks: Florrie Sutherland, Joyce Sutherland and to the teachers of Mamawmatawa Holistic Education Centre for supporting this project.
Video by Skye Spence
Music produced and mixed by Cayden Carfrae & Thanya Iyer
Mastered by Jon Kaspy
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LYRICS:
CHORUS
Its a hard life
But with family I'm feeling motivation
Got some bannock I'm feeling elevation
Been some hard nights I'm overthinking
Gotta make these changes
Changes
TERRANCE:
Changes hittin my emotions
thoughts flooding in like an ocean
with the crew
lost a few
But I ain't hopeless
XZAVION:
Through these hard nights
I see my people in the struggle it ain't all right
We on the grind gettin money through this hard life
CHORUS
hard life
But with family I'm feeling motivation
Got some bannock I'm feeling elevation
Been some hard nights I'm overthinking
Gotta make these changes
Changes
KAYLEY:
Ever since I was a little girl
I’ve been having a hard time with my life
Trauma flying over my head like its nothing
Thoughts going crazy like a hurricane
Giving in to a few of these thoughts
Sad that I got hooked up to a plant just to feel something
But we can still feel something even in a hurricane
MYLES:
It's a hard life
but I wanna feel love
makes me feel whole
someone pull me out of this hole
I will feel love, I will feel love, you fill my soul
AARON:
Got me feeling Like I'm incapable
Got some homies and they know me,
we wanna live it up
JUDE:
Straight out of the bottle forget my cup
We made it barely I’m out of luck
But its been better
been lookin up
I can’t say the same for some of my team
Some people give up on dreams
This just happens that you can’t really change
Thats how it be
I got my team
But ain’ t as big as it been
I lost a few friends
But you cannot break me
I wont bend
wait
CHORUS
It's a hard life
But with family I'm feeling motivation
Got some bannock I'm feeling elevation
Been some hard nights I'm overthinking
Gotta make these changes
Changes