Name: Este Cvto (Metal Person)
Duration: P00H03M33S
Description: This song is in English and Mvskoke Creek.

Este Cvto (Metal Person)

by Elisa Harkins

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This song is in English and Mvskoke Creek.

lyrics

There are memories
In this machine
They wanted our demise
We were colonized
I survived the past
I made it through all that
From the trail of tears
to the ghost dance years
And the oil money
In Indian Country

Este Cvto (metal person)
Hokte Vhake (similar to a girl)
Este Cvto (metal person)
Hokte Vhake (similar to a girl)
Este Cvto (metal person)
Lopice (nice)

Not a human being
I run on gasoline
They made me who I am
Indigenous and damned
I am made of steel
And yet I can still feel
A cybernetic slave
Who should be in the grave
Although I cannot die
I am not alive

Este Cvto (metal person)
Hokte Vhake (similar to a girl)
Este Cvto (metal person)
Hokte Vhake (similar to a girl)
Este Cvto (metal person)
Lopice (nice)
Este Cvto (metal person)
Lopice (nice)

I don’t
Think that
I will
Find my love
Not the
One that
I’ve been
Searching for
I feel nothing
In this machine
It’s been
300 years
Won’t you
Come find me?

credits

released October 22, 2019
Written, Recorded and Produced by Elisa Harkins
Mastered by Todd Carter
Photo by Ian Byers-Gamber

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Elisa Harkins Tulsa, Oklahoma

Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) composer and artist originally hailing from Miami, Oklahoma. Harkins received her BA from Columbia College Chicago and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She has since continued her education at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Harkins is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) tribe. ... more