Red Hot Chili Peppers - american ghost dance

가사는 미국 원주율의 고통스러운 과거와 그들이 경험한 폭력, 그리고 그로 인한 상처를 다룬다
주인공은 자신의 정체성과 역사를 되찾기 위해 불꽃처럼 타오르는 감정을 느끼며 저항의 의지를 선언한다
결국 죽어간 조상들의 기억을 기리며 자신을 계승하고 새로운 생명력을 다짐한다

Oh give me a home a-where the buffalo roam
Ah, and the death of a race is a game
Where seldom is heard, a peaceable word
A-from the white trash who killed as they came
Though these words dig deep, they offer no relief
A-God save the queen, I am an Indian chief
There is a secret I keep, it's called the talking leaf
And you better believe that he speaks his beliefs
Like a rock that bleeds a sea of grief
My talking leaf speaks of a wounded knee creek
American ghost dance
American ghost dance
American ghost dance
American ghost dance
Today a new man who is with old ways
He walks the streets of life, but he's in chains
"I'm alive," he cried, "Ah, I can feel the flame
Burning red inside, I am an Indian brave
There is a memory, uh huh, that lives in my blood
Of the brand you laid on all you touched
But the burning flame, it turns to burning pain
Genuine genocide and that's truly insane
So like a wild hurricane, I will dance on the grave
Of my race that died when it should have been saved"