Colors of the Wind by Stephen Schwartz & Alan Menken - Heather Grohe

In the spirit of Pocahontas, this performance incorporating American Sign Language reflects diversity, intercultural communication, and harmony. Heather Grohe has sung and signed this performance many times around the world, including at the 6th Summit of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace in Geneva, Switzerland, September 14-20, 2013.


LYRICS
You think I'm an ignorant savage
And you've been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is me
How can there be so much that you don't know?
You don't know ...


You think you own whatever land you land on
The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know every rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name


You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew


Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon,
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?!


Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once, never wonder what they're worth


The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, in a hoop that never ends


How high does the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll never know
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon


For whether we are white or copper-skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
We need to paint with all the colors of the wind


You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind