Colors Of The Wind (포카혼타스)

조수미(Sumi Jo)

 

You think I'm an ignorant savage

And you've been so many places, I guess it must be so

But still I cannot see, if the savage one is me

How can there be so much that tyou don't know?

You don't know...

 

You think you own whatever land you land on

The earth is just a dead thing you can claim

But I know every rock and tree and creature

Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

 

You think the only people who are people

Are the people who look and think like you

But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger

You'll learn things you never knew you never knew

 

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon

Or ask the grinning bob cat why he grinned

Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain

Can you paint with all the colours of the wind

Can you paint with all the colours of the wind

 

Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest

Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth

Come roll in all the riches all around you

And for once never wonder what they're worth

 

The rainstorm and the river are my brothers

The heron and the otter are my friends

And we are all connected to each other

In a circle in a hoop that never ends

 

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon

Or let the eagle tell you where hes been

Can you sing with all the voices of the mountian

Can you paint with all the colours of the wind

Can you paint with all the colours of the wind

 

How high does that sycamore grow

If you cut it down then you'll never know

And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon

For whether we are white or copper skinned

We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain

We need to paint with all the colours of the wind

 

You can own the earth and still

All you'll own is earth until

You can paint with all the colours of the wind