A Tribe Called Red BEFORE song lyrics

You have a collect call from an inmate at an Alien Nation correctional facility

To accept the charges press one

Thank you, connecting now

It's me Jack, listen you got to find Charlie

You guys got to find him, you gotta find him and pass this on to him before it's too late

I think it's too late already but I'm begging you, try for me

You guys got pull, you do

People listen to you, you know they do

So maybe, just maybe that kid Charlie, he'll hear this too

Charlie I don't know how I'm going to survive in here, I think I want to die, I mean it

I'm surrounded by animals, beasts without nations

It's a human zoo with the hyenas in charge, and I'm just at the start of the sentence and I got no relations

When you guys find him, please tell him this

You still come to me sometimes Charlie, your thin face, your cheekbones sharp as knives

You were lost, no doubt about it

You ran away from that residential school and all you wanted, you said, was just to get home

Your face still haunts me and it's always at moments when I least want to remember you

When another news reports announce the find of another murdered Indian woman, I wonder is this is the one who will be numb

I think of you Charlie when I'm walking in my hood and the cops throw me on the concrete because I rock my colors

I remember you when I'm jonesing for something I know I can't have

I hate to say it, but sometimes I wish I never met you

I wish they never did in that school what they did to you

You're still hurting Charlie, we're going to hurt for a long time

We hurt from the before and it makes us hurt so bad right now