Sacrifice Lyrics - Robbie Robertson

You know we have a million stories to tell 

I'm just one of a million or more stories that could be told 

Sacrifice your freedom 

Sacrifice your prayer 

Take away your language 

Cut off all your hair 

Sacrifice the loved ones 

Who always stood by me 

Stranded in the wasteland 

Set my spirit free 

My name is Leonard Peltier 

I am a Lakota and Anishnabe 

And I am living in the United States penitentiary 

Which is the swiftest growing 

Indian reservations in the country 

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I have been in prison since 1976 

For an incident that took place on the Oglala-Lakota Nation 

There was a shoot-out between members of the American Indian Movement 

And The FBI and the local Sheriffs State Troopers 

Two agents were killed and one Indian was murdered 

Three of us were charged with the deaths of the FBI agents 

My co-defendants were found not-guilty by reasons of self-defense 

My case was separated and I was found guilty before a jury of non-Indian 

people 

The prosecutor stated that they did not know who killed their agents 

Nor did he know what participation Leonard Peltier may have played in it 

But someone has to pay for the crime 

There's a lot of nights that I lay in my cell 

And I can't understand why this hell this hell and this terror 

That I have been going through for twenty-one years hasn't ended 

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Sacrifice your freedom 

Sacrifice your prayer 

Take away your language 

Cut off all your hair 

Sacrifice the loved ones 

Who always stood by me 

Stranded in the wasteland 

Set my spirit free 

But yet I know in my heart that someone has to pay sacrifice 

To make things better for our people 

The sacrifice I have made when I really sit down to think about it 

Is nothing compared to what our people a couple hundred years ago 

Or fifty years ago or twenty-five years ago have made 

Some gave their lives 

Some had to stand there and watch their children die in their arms 

So the sacrifice I have made is nothing compared to those 

I've gone too far now to start backing down 

I don't give up 

Not 'til my people are free will I give up 

And if I have to sacrifice some more 

Then I sacrifice some more