Medicinals Lyrics - The Hope Six Demolition Project - Pj Harvey

I was walking through the national mall 

Thinking about medicinals, how they used to grow there 

When the ground was a marshland 

Undisturbed by human hands, and I heard their voices: 

Sumac said we're always here 

Witch hazel we're always here 

Sassafras we're always here 

Bluestem grasses always here 

I looked about, and what I see? 

Medicinals grow around me, rising from the gravel 

Sumac and the witch hazel 

Come to soothe our primal sores, come to soothe our troubles 

Sumac said we're always here 

Witch hazel we're always here 

Sassafras we're always here 

Bluestem grass is always here 

But do you see that woman, sitting in the wheelchair? 

With her redskins cap on backwards 

What's that she's singing? 

As from inside a paper wrapper 

She sips from a bottle 

A new painkiller 

For the native people