Cup of Kindness Attawapiskat #IdleNoMore.mov
Channel: Cathy Elliott
Date: 2012-01-28

We need voices from all over Turtle Island. Chief Theresa Spence is on a hunger strike, to demand a conversation with Canada and the Crown. 

In the darkest hour
All is quiet
You've been eating Humble Pie
Steady diet
Everybody' weighing what you own and lack
The numbers always line up red or black
The sum of another sleepless test

Underneath the floor boards, diamonds gleaming
Just above the perma frost, children dreaming
Everybody has a solid point of view
Doesn't matter if they know what's right or true
Just as long as they can say they know what's best

In the light of day sunshine creeps through the crack in the door
As you watch the promise of Better turning blue
In the light of day bitterness seeps through the floor
When a little cup of kindness would do

in the dead of winter you're still waiting
In the warmth of certitude they're all debating
They want to get this little problem put away
They've got a lot of clever things to say
Does it matter who's being blamed or blessed?

In the light of day sunshine creeps through the crack in the door
As you watch the promise of Better turning blue
In the light of day bitterness seeps through the floor
When a little cup of kindness would do

You're hoping that those airplanes full of
Sleeping bags and crates
Will keep your heart from freezing as the
Windigo sits and waits
For the cameras and accountants to leave your
Worn out welcome mat
Will he simply sweep away the crumbs of
Attawapiskat?

As you watch the promise of Better turning blue
In the light of day, Bitterness seeps through the door
When a little cup of kindness
Just enough to get you through
A little cup of kindness
Would do.