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Medicine (ft. Tonye Aganaba and Kin Balam)

from What Holds Us Together? by Van Lefan

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It is inevitable as we move through this life that we will experience hurt and illness, that is why the Earth and our ancestors have provided us with many forms of medicine to help us on this journey. Whether it’s in plants, waters, earth, fire, food, prayers, songs, or dance, it is important for each person to find what healing means, to use the gifts we are given in this life and honor the work that we are here to do in this lifetime.

lyrics

We are perfect free from sin
From the moment we begin
We are children of the mother
Let us use her medicine
Free the birds from the cages awaken the magic
Listen and hear it in the beat and the music
It’s here with a message you’re nothing but perfect
Listen and hear it the calling from Spirit
Remember how we’re meant to be wild and free
Connect to the ground beneath our bare feet
We’re like the roots that grow in the concrete jungle
Splitting through the road on our way home
You are perfect free from sin
From the moment we begin
We are children of the mother
Let us use her medicine
I’m down to the very last second overthinking it
Wishing a river would run over me
cause nothing’s sinking in
I need oceans,
cause I’ve been floating on the surface
Gliding, hiding, the world’s got me nervous
I need medicine, I need medicine
Lose your mind and enter the vortex
Follow the trail of the white rabbit
Into a land where the clocks all
Tick without both hands and
See that time is an illusion
Let it fade away
There’s no such thing as separation
We’re all made up of space
音樂,草藥,舞蹈,祈禱,(music, medicine, dance, prayer)
治癒世世代代的恩怨,創傷 (healing generations of resentment, trauma)
土地的小孩 (Children of the Earth)
破病都是用祂的藥阿 (Heal from illness with It’s medicine)
記得家鄉/remember home
是在遠方/is far away
身在何處/where you are now
地歸原主/return the land.

credits

from What Holds Us Together?, released April 23, 2022
Vanessa Yuen - Song writer, Vocals, Flute
Thomas Hoeller - Song Writer (Music), Arrangement, Production, Mixing, Engineer, Guitar, Charango
Chris Couto - Percussion
Richard Brown - Drums
Tonye Aganaba - Vocals Feature
Kin Balam - Guitar, Indigenous Flute
JeanSe Le Doujet - Bass
Corrina Keeling - Bodhran
Thad Bailey Mai - Trumpet
Elisa Pangsaeng - Mastering

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Van Lefan Vancouver, British Columbia

Lefan樂凡 is a multidisciplinary artists born and raised in Taiwan, and currently based in Vancouver, BC

Her music is inspired by the natural world.
From the ocean waves, blowing winds, plants, and animals.

Through art, music, and movement, Lefan shares the lessons she's learned in her journey, and the experiences from her heart space.
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