[00:00.41]I was walking through the National Mall
[00:03.45]Thinking about medicinals, how they used to grow there
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[00:11.05]When the ground was a marshland
[00:13.65]Undisturbed by human hands, and I heard their voices:
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[00:21.24]Sumac said "We're always here"
[00:23.79]Witch Hazel - "We're always here"
[00:26.30]Sassafras - "We're always here"
[00:28.92]Bluestem grasses always here
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[00:55.50]I looked about, and what I see?
[00:58.23]Medicinals grow around me, rising from the gravel
[01:05.91]Sumac and the Witch Hazel
[01:08.47]Come to soothe our primal sores, come to soothe our troubles
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[01:16.22]Sumac said "We're always here"
[01:18.71]Witch Hazel - "We're always here"
[01:21.17]Sassafras - "We're always here"
[01:23.77]Bluestem grass is always here
[01:27.29]
[01:29.38]But do you see that woman, sitting in the wheelchair?
[01:39.88]With her Redskins cap on backwards
[01:45.57]What's that she's singing?
[01:49.86]As from inside a paper wrapper
[01:55.56]She sips from a bottle
[02:00.52]A new painkiller
[02:05.99]For the native people
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