top of page

MUSIC

Lyla June - North Star (feat. Quincy Davis) Official Music Video
03:48

Lyla June - North Star (feat. Quincy Davis) Official Music Video

Lyla June's official music video for 'North Star' feat. Quincy Davis. 100% of Bandcamp sales benefit Seventh Generation Fund, purchase here: https://ffm.to/lylajune-northstar More from Lyla June: All Nations Rise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr2VLI8jKww Time Traveler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulK_GE9XjO8 Mamwlad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeGLDwfrvb8 More from Quincy Davis: Make it Through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUm6udA4ds Cao Xango: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eWLQJK0_TI Lighthouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CdIqoc5zUk Follow Lyla June: Website: https://www.lylajune.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LylaJune Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/LylaJuneTweets Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lylajune Subscribe to Lyla June on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/lylajune?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Quincy Davis: Website: https://www.7vision.link Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuincyDavisMusic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/QuincyDavisMusic Subscribe to Quincy Davis on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SEVENVISION/?sub_confirmation=1 --------- Lyrics: Oh my Creator Helper of my soul Walk with me on this road 'Cuz I can't do it on my own No I can't do this alone These days I walk with An aching in my soul With you all I know is All I have to do is ask And you'll show me the path All I have to do is ask And you'll show me the path 'Cuz when I don't got no strength You lift me up, yeah And when I can't find my way You are my north star You, the One who rushes in When I cry out to the sky Step into the field I can feel the wind Help me see me through your eyes So my broken wings can fly Help me see me through your eyes So my wings can fly Let me fly Riding the wind I'm on Facing the storm I know Imma make it home All I do is ask And you help me follow the path Remember the truth Calling us back All I been through to be Ready for that All I been through to be Right where I'm at Living the proof Pick up these pieces I'm broken and bruised With infinite reasons I'm grateful to you Given this life and Each breath is anew Yeah, finally I see through the dark at night Follow your light Finally I see myself through your eyes Yeah, finally I can see I can change my life Change my life Finally I see myself through your eyes My heart is a maze But I know that I never walk alone I know that I'm Gonna find Gonna find Gonna find My way home My way Still some days I want to escape The truth that eats me whole. But with your grace I know I can face it 'Cuz you don't let me go You only love me more 'Cuz you don't let me go You only love me more When I am in the storm you are my anchor So bring on the storm you are my anchor Finally I see myself through your eyes Finally I can see I can change my life Finally I see myself through your eyes Video: Director/Editor: Quincy Davis Cinematography: Quincy Davis Audio: Written and Composed By: Lyla June Johnston and Quincy Davis Produced By: Quincy Davis
1000 Ancestors | feat. Mitzi Begay (Official Music Video)
03:52

1000 Ancestors | feat. Mitzi Begay (Official Music Video)

This song is to honor our ancestors both Indigenous to Turtle Island (aka America) and beyond. Those who fought to hand down prayerful ways that uphold all life. It was through this prayer and ceremony that many of us were able to save our own lives, get sober, get out of bad situations, and remember who we are. May this song help all remember that Creator and the Ancestors are only a prayer away 🙂 Some say when our grandparents pass they come back as our animal relatives: sheep, horses, goats and other animals. Thus, we treat them the same way we would our own grandparents. This song was also written for the Native American Community Academy DSIA project to help prevent substance abuse and youth suicide. I started doing drugs when I was 11 years old. I experienced gender violence since I was very young, which led to self-blame, and self-hatred. Through prayer, I was able to find people who could help me understand that what happened to me was not my fault. That there was a planet worth living for, worth fighting for and worth being sober for. I celebrate 9 years of complete sobriety this year. May all who need that support find it and may we live strong for those who didn't make it through the onslaught of colonization. All proceeds from my bandcamp (lylajune.bandcamp.com) are routed to www.7genfund.org, a non-profit supporting Indigenous grassroots community projects. Buy this song now and you could support their programs: Community Vitality, Land Defenders & Water Protectors, Thriving Women, Tradition Bearers Fellowship, and Flicker Fund! :) LYRICS: When I was young I had some big dreams Wanted to bring peace and help my family From a small town, I could feel the gravity Weight on my shoulders made it hard to spread my wings But I knew I could do it, knew I could push through it Could do anything if I put my mind to it Native youth had it hard as children growing up But with prayers in our hearts I knew we could overcome Got 1000 ancestors behind me We marching on yes here come the army Got 1000 ancestors behind me We marching on yes here come the army When I turned 13 the world shattered my dreams All I had left was a bunch of broken pieces So many years hiding in the dark I almost drowned, but I never gave up Creator heard my prayer in the depths of my despair It took a couple tries, but I stood back up Put down the liquor, put down the drugs I’ve been sober nine years some how we overcome Got 1000 ancestors behind me We marching on yes here come the army Got 1000 ancestors behind me We marching on yes here come the army Now everything I have I owe to the Creator Fell to my knees didn’t know if She would answer But She came through clutch at the time when I needed Her Now I’m flying high, yes, I’m a believer. It’s what got me through, it’s what got me through Your love, it’s what got me through, what got me through To you Creator Creator To you Creator Yeah, to you. Message from elder in Diné Bizaad (Navajo Language)
Lyla June - Mamwlad Official Video
05:50

Lyla June - Mamwlad Official Video

This Beltane, we are forgiving the persecution of an estimated 6-9 million women as "witches" in Europe with the release of our new music video, "Mamwlad." Cinematography: Jay Jacoby Craig Whyte Michael Clark Editor: Michael Clark Wardrobe Supervisor: Priscilla Peña Composer: Lyla June As a biracial woman (Native American/European), I thought it would be good to take the time to write this song to honor all of my grandmothers (and grandfathers) who were burned alive, drowned alive, raped, beaten and tortured in torture chambers for being so called "witches" and "warlocks" (https://www.nfb.ca/film/burning_times/). I know that these people were not evil, but rather were the carriers of Indigenous European knowledge that was demonized by colonizing forces, just as my Native American ancestors were demonized and persecuted. This is a wound that we as Europeans have yet to heal face, forgive, and heal from. If we can find the courage to heal from this, I believe we could break many cycles and resolve much untended intergenerational trauma, to help not only European folk, but all those who are affected by our unresolved trauma. Our elders have taught us that any assault on the women of a society is also an assault on the men who love them. Imagine having your wife, or daughter burned alive and being restrained from helping her. This is what so many of our grandfathers went through and it drove them purely mad. We must too pray for the soul of the masculine that was tricked into thinking it was insufficient, tricked into thinking it "failed to protect." These are all psychological tactics to make us hate ourselves across the board and have damaged us for too many generations. This is healed through self-love and the forgiveness of this unimaginable cruelty of others. It is time to throw off these chains and throw off these lies and affirm our sacredness and worth as men and women in the eyes of Creator. I named this song Mamwlad (Mah-Mu-Lahd), which means "Motherland" in the Welsh language. In the 1920s, if you were caught speaking Cymraeg (Welsh) in school you would get a big block of wood tied around your neck with the letters W.N. there inscribed. This stood for "Welsh Not," and you could only get the wood off your neck if you caught another child speaking welsh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not). The prohibition of this Indigenous European language is one example of many of how our ancestral, earth-based culture was suppressed and destroyed much like my Native American ancestral culture was. It is time for all of us to return to our indigenous selves and this includes Europeans. It is time for us to look behind the thin wall of time that dominates our understanding of Europe--the time of King Edward I who ordered the massacred of 100 harpists and bards of the Celtic Nations, the time of Napoleon, the time of Hitler--and remember who we truly are, beneath all the trauma and rubble. It is time to reach into the time of Indigenous European culture evidenced by a figurine of a woman, symbolizing the sacred earth and the sacredness of women, found in German soil in 2009, whose radiocarbon dating indicated that it was at least 40,000 years old. It is time to remember that this is who we really are. And, it is time to forgive. For when we do not forgive, we become the oppressor, as we perpetuate the violence that we experienced on other peoples the world over. We have the power to help this end immediately for the sake of generations of human beings of all ethnicities worldwide. In sum, if we find the courage to face the truth and love through it, the way all great leaders have done throughout time, we can heal 7 generations forward and 7 generations backward. We have this power to transmute that darkness into hope and become the humble examples of healing that we as European descent folks are capable of being. We must also recognize that witch burning still occurs today in many countries around the world (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-religion-witchcraft/killing-of-women-child-witches-on-rise-u-n-told-idUSTRE58M4Q820090923). I hope we can unite to heal the past, the future and the present day to say no woman should ever be killed because of her spiritual practice. Please join me in this musical, cinematic journey, filmed in the ancient sacred homelands of Gaelic, Celtic and Welsh civilizations, blessed by wild ponies, and connected to local Indigenous women of contemporary time.

BANDCAMP:

SOUNDCLOUD:

bottom of page