Breathing Free

Soundcloud. Written by Jessica Garraway with my assistance as a creative collaborator. This was written for the struggle by unions and environmental justice groups in Minneapolis to shut down the HERC incinerator, which subjects the working class community, disproportionately residents of color, to elevated levels of air pollution and respiratory health problems. 

C G D, C G D
Clear blue skies, not for you or I
C G D, D A7
They say it’s clean, they say it’s green
A7 E
Still I can’t breathe

Chorus
C G
And still we dream, the kids can breathe free
C G
Lifting these clouds, the horizon we see 

Verse:
What they throw away, toxic and gray
It’s choking me, whether a trash or a knee
Still I can’t breathe

Chorus

We’re down below, but our power grows
Our voices rise to clear the skies
Then we will breathe

Chorus
Chorus

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