From the recording Raven
Kristina Stykos: vocals, guitars, mandolin
Philip Aaberg: keyboards
Arranged, engineered and co-produced by Kristina Stykos and Philip Aaberg, with production help from Ian Huhtala
Recorded at Pepperbox Studio, Chelsea, Vermont and The Bin, Chester, Montana
Lyrics
Aniya
(c) 2011 Kristina Stykos/BMI/Horse Thief Publishing
- Aniya: “to breathe on” in Lakota
If I could see your face
If I could count the stars in the sky
I might know my place
Gently hold my truth in inside
If somehow I could know
Like fast water sliding down
Where this path will go
And in falling, find my ground
Aniya, Aniya, Aniya, Aniya
Worn down by degrees
Losing all that once gave life
Land beneath the breeze
Cut away by the soldiers knife
Ponies run like fire
Over plains of restless night
Over plains of snow
Over all our bones and light
Aniya, Aniya, Aniya, Aniya
If I had not seen
All things they’d done to you
If I’d walked away
Hidden from the things I knew
If I’d held your hand
If the canyons all went dry
If this world was safe
We could pray and we could cry
Aniya, Aniya, Aniya, Aniya