In memory of Lucas

I'm posting these lyrics in memory of Lucas who died one week ago. The title to the song is linked to the youtube song:

BREATHS by Sweet Honey and the Rock

Refrain:
Listen more often to things than to beings.
Listen more often to things than to beings.
Tis the ancestors’ breath when the fire’s voice is heard
Tis the ancestors’ breath in the voice of the water.

Those who have died have never ever left.
The dead are not under the earth.
They are in the rustling trees.
They are in the groaning woods.
They are in the crying grass.
They are in the moaning rocks.
The dead are not under the earth.
So,

(Refrain)

Those who have died have never ever left.
The dead have a pact with the living.
They are in the woman’s breast
They are in the waiting child.
They with us in the home,
They are with us in the crowd.
The dead have pact with the living
So,

I also heard this performed by the gay men's a cappella group, the Flirtations, with Michael Callen, in the middle of the AIDS crisis. Hear their version here