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By Chance (Ours Back)

by Soultree

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Need more acoustic trap protest music in your life? Soultree & DC have THE sound for you! ;P

By Chance (Ours Back) is a response to the recent attention surrounding Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA). There’s just so much more to go beyond this program and our programming. We hope this song supports us all in the journey to reclaiming what has always been ours ~ our humanity, dignity, and right to live.

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By Chance / Ours Back

So am I supposed to just not work
And wait for ICE to knock on my door?
Judge signed the warrant they detain me with a smirk
another one of eleven mil to deport
All the while, we know there's so much more to go
Who else in our family stifled from growth?
They prolly plotting against our most vulnerable members
I ask the creator will we last ‘til December
It ain't even fall and Chicago's so cold
Will my people get a chance to grow old?
Will our people get a chance to grow old?
Depends on how far our souls have been sold

See the difference between you and me is just by chance
Yours was given mine had to be taken
Y'all wanna assume we steal cuz we lack
You ever think we're just taking our shit back

You ever wonder when we became us vs them?
Or if the wars between us will ever end?
Do you know what's happened to our land?
Our resources stolen then placed in your hand?
We have never been paid for our work & goods
now they even wanna rob our poor neighborhoods
What's the difference between my country and yours?
Ain’t it been attacks on the dark, sick, and poor?
Commodify cultures from our food to our font
All the while we wonder what more can you want?

See the difference between you and me is just by chance
Yours was given mine had to be taken
Y'all wanna assume we steal cuz we lack
You ever think we're just taking our shit back

See the difference between you and me is just by chance
Yours was given mine had to be taken
Y'all wanna assume we steal cuz we lack
You ever think we're taking what's ours back?
Takin what's ours back
Takin what's been ours back
Takin it all the way back
Takin what's ours back
Ours back
Ours back

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released October 23, 2017
Produced, Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Derek "DC" Cannon @MixedByDC
Cover Art by Damaly Keo @mindfoe of @_damo_nation
Written and Performed by Stephanie "Soultree" Camba @SoultreeSounds

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Multi-disciplinary, multi-genre Pilipinx Marshallese Undocumented Queer vocalist, songWriter, poet, and Creator based in Chicago and LA

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