Upstream
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Every night we see the moon descending from the earth
Each new day we rise up to watch the sun's rebirth
Every month the new moon wanes to give the old moon way
Every year the salmon return to Bristol Bay
Past the shoals and the rapids where the current runs strong
Past a hundred different dangers that make the odds so long
No matter how impossible their ancient journey seems
The salmon swim upstream
If you were a newborn salmon, if you had your say
Would you think it worth the effort to even swim away
Knowing the statistics everybody learns
Of all the millions that are born only one or two return
Past the shoals and the rapids where the current runs strong
Past a hundred different dangers that make the odds so long
No matter how impossible their ancient journey seems
The salmon swim upstream
We are like the salmon yet not like them at all
They number in the millions, our numbers are small
At the end of their journey not one is left alive
We too are endangered, yet we will survive
Past the mining corporations whose millions make them strong
Past the paid up politicians who string us along
No matter how impossible our way to victory seems
We fight our way upstream
Past the shoals and the rapids where the current runs strong
Past a hundred different dangers that make the odds so long
No matter how impossible their ancient journey seems
The salmon swim upstream
The salmon swim upstream