[Guitar plays softly] Man: Roll camera's please.

[Guitar plays softly] (light bulb surges) ♪ (she plays guitar calmly) ♪ ♪ Raye Zaragoza (sings): Save the rivers save the seas.

♪ ♪ Save the mother and her family.

♪ ♪ How can you take what you want ♪ ♪ and say that we are free?

♪ ♪ If you put oil in the water ♪ ♪ we won't sit quietly.

♪ ♪ And we're singing stand up, ♪ ♪ stand up for what's right.

♪ ♪ Don't walk, don't walk silently in to the night.

♪ ♪ Take my hand and we'll see this through.

♪ ♪ If you fight for me I'll fight for you.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Save the oceans and the streams.

♪ ♪ Save the people who are in need.

♪ ♪ How can you do what you want ♪ ♪ and say you come in peace?

♪ ♪ If you don't open your eyes, how can you see?

♪ ♪ And we were cheering, stand up, ♪ ♪ stand up for what's right.

♪ ♪ Don't walk, don't walk silently in to the night.

♪ ♪ Take my hand and we'll see this through.

♪ ♪ If you fight for me I'll fight for you.

♪ ♪ Don't look down when we march downtown for some truth.

♪ ♪ Because you can't complain if you don't find a way to ♪ ♪ stand up too.

♪ ♪ Stand up, stand up for what's right.

♪ ♪ Don't walk, don't walk silently in to the night.

♪ ♪ Take my hand and we'll see this through.

♪ ♪ Stand up, stand up for what's right.

♪ ♪ Don't walk, don't walk silently in to the night.

♪ ♪ Take my hand and we'll see this through.

♪ ♪ If you fight for me I'll fight for you.

♪ ♪ If you fight for me I'll fight for you.

♪ Raye Zaragoza: My name is Raye Zaragoza.

I am a folk singer/song writer.

On my dad's side I am O'odham and Mexican.

And on my mom's side I am Japanese and Taiwanese.

Very mixed (she chuckles) When you're a kid you know culture is really expressed through food and music and gatherings.

My dad was a mariachi when I was growing up and my family was really in to that.

But then on the weekends we would go to the American Indian Community House in New York where I grew up.

And so we had a lot of that influence too.

I have this vivid memory of this woman's feet hitting the ground and a drum and just being like 4 years old and just staring at her feet because I was watching the beat you know.

I could just feel it in my whole soul.

It just like made me feel alive.

And I remember looking at her and thinking like I want to do that.

I didn't really know if that meant being a dancer or being a musician or just- I wanted to do that.

I wanted to be a part of music.

Growing up I listened to a lot of singer/song writers.

I listened to Jewel.

We'd listen to songs in Spanish a lot.

We grew up on all Asian food.

And we would make dumplings together and we would make sushi together.

And so we had so much of that Japanese and Taiwanese influence.

For me though I never really saw the separation.

I never really saw it as four separate cultures.

I just saw it as my culture.

American Dream was the last song I wrote for my debut album.

There are so many statements of intolerance that are accepted here in this country.

And so the term American Dream to me has always been ironic.

If you're not Indigenous to North America then you were an immigrant at one point too.

And no one really acknowledges that.

♪ (she plays guitar softly) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Raye Zaragoza (sings): I been thinking about the news.

♪ ♪ Daddy leaves it on all day through.

♪ ♪ I've been thinking about the wars.

♪ ♪ And to be honest I can't take it anymore.

♪ ♪ I hear you every day.

♪ ♪ The awful words you say.

♪ ♪ And hate can't be the face of the American Dream.

♪ ♪ I've been thinking about my life.

♪ ♪ And how one day I want to be a mother and a wife.

♪ ♪ I've been scared of that thought too.

♪ ♪ In a world of struggle, what are we gonna do?

♪ ♪ I hear you every day saying it's gonna be okay.

♪ ♪ But hate can't be the face of the American Dream.

♪ ♪ And I ought to know we've got a long way to go.

♪ ♪ But I've got to believe that change is a choice ♪ ♪ and it can start with me.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ And I've been thinking about our mother.

♪ ♪ How they took her away from her people.

♪ ♪ Put her in a boarding school away from her ♪ ♪ brother, sister, and culture.

♪ ♪ I can see her every night saying ♪ ♪ we've got to make this right.

♪ ♪ Because hate can't be the face ♪ ♪ of the American Dream.

♪ ♪ And I ought to know we've got a long way to go.

♪ ♪ But I've got to believe that change is a choice ♪ ♪ and it can start with me.

♪ ♪ And change is a choice and it can start with me.

♪ ♪ And change is a choice and it can start with you.

♪ Raye Zaragoza: This next song is called 'Such Great Heights,' and it's by The Postal Service.

I've always connected with the lyrics.

It just felt like the sky is the limit and no one can hold you back.

You're just going to have to wave to them from the sky and they'll be on the ground if they don't want to come with you.

(she chuckles) ♪ (plays guitar softly) ♪ ♪ Raye Zaragoza (sings): I think that it's a sign.

♪ ♪ That the freckles in our eyes.

♪ ♪ Are mirror images.

♪ ♪ And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned.

♪ ♪ And I have to speculate.

♪ ♪ That God himself did make.

♪ ♪ Us into corresponding shapes.

♪ ♪ Like puzzle pieces from the clay.

♪ ♪ And true it may seem like a stretch.

♪ ♪ But it's thoughts like this that catch.

♪ ♪ My troubled head when you're away.

♪ ♪ And I'm missing you to death.

♪ ♪ When you are out there on the road.

♪ ♪ For several weeks of shows.

♪ ♪ And when you scan the radio.

♪ ♪ I hope this song will guide you home.

♪ ♪ They will see us waving from such great heights.

♪ ♪ Come down now, they'll say.

♪ ♪ Everything looks perfect from far away.

♪ ♪ Come down now but we'll stay.

♪ ♪ I tried my best to leave.

♪ ♪ This song on your machine.

♪ ♪ But the persistent beat, ♪ ♪ it sounded thin upon listening.

♪ ♪ And that frankly will not fly.

♪ ♪ You wll hear the shrillest highs.

♪ ♪ And the lowest lows with the windows down.

♪ ♪ When this song is guiding you home.

♪ ♪ They will see us waving from such great heights.

♪ ♪ Come down now, they'll say.

♪ ♪ Everything looks perfect from far away.

♪ ♪ Come down now but we'll stay.

♪ ♪ Everything looks perfect from far away.

♪ ♪ Come down now, we'll stay.

♪ ♪ Yeah-ay.

♪ ♪ Raye Zaragoza: The audience I am most inspired by is young women because I was one and that was a hard time in my life.

Dealing with insecurity.

Dealing with not feeling comfortable in my own skin.

And so my greatest advice would be just to remember that you're enough and that your voice matters.

And find your medium, whether that's writing, music, or drawing, or really anything creative because creativity is very healing.

If you feel that my art is inspiring you in some way, just think about how much you can inspire someone with yours.

♪ (she plays guitar) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Raye Zaragoza (sings): I've been lost in the ♪ ♪ mountains for weeks.

♪ ♪ I swear I've been seeing things.

♪ ♪ For I swear to God there's a handsome man at my feet.

♪ ♪ Yeah, he calls me River, I call him Thy King.

♪ ♪ Yeah, he calls me River, I call him Thy King.

♪ ♪ (she vocalizes) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ He's been holding me as I sleep.

♪ ♪ I've been looking up at the trees.

♪ ♪ Oh he claims the water flows through me.

♪ ♪ Yeah, he calls me River, I call him Thy King.

♪ ♪ (she vocalizes) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Lay me down in the ground ♪ ♪ and let your water drown me.

♪ ♪ Lay me down in the ground ♪ ♪ and let your water drown me.

♪ ♪ Lay me down in the ground ♪ ♪ and let your water drown me.

♪ ♪ Lay me down in the ground.

♪ ♪ (she vocalizes) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Yeah he calls me river.

♪ Raye Zaragoza: Well this next song I wrote about Standing Rock.

I wrote it the morning that videos of the dogs being released on to Water Protectors surfaces online and it just completely broke my heart.

And I started writing something really angry but then once I broke through that anger I wrote 'In the River.'

One of like the most surreal moments for me was a friend of mine, she drove me because I forgot something somewhere and I didn't have a car.

And so she like drove me and then she was like, "Oh, it's so crazy to have you in my car."

And I was like, "Why?"

And she was like, "Well I listened to your song over and over when I was at Standing Rock.

And she was there for months and she said, "Yeah, before an action we would listen to 'In the River' to keep us peaceful and then we would go to the action."

And I was just like, "Whoa," You wanted to access a part of your heart, you wanted it to be peaceful.

And so you listened to the song before you went to the front line.

You know that, that's really the whole reason I wrote it.

You know without even noticing it.

♪ (she plays guitar softly) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Raye Zaragoza (sings): There's got to be some hope.

♪ ♪ There's got to be some hope.

♪ ♪ There's got to be some way.

♪ ♪ For you to send your dog's away ♪ ♪ and to leave the land alone.

♪ ♪ It's got to be a crime.

♪ ♪ Somewhere in your heart you'll find.

♪ ♪ We're fighting for our right to keep ♪ ♪ the future bright.

♪ ♪ And protect the ones we love.

♪ ♪ (she strums softly) ♪ ♪ In the river is our sisters and our brothers.

♪ ♪ We are camping out for each other.

♪ ♪ We are stronger when we band together.

♪ ♪ And we're standing up for the water.

♪ ♪ Don't poison the future away.

♪ ♪ You've got to have a soul.

♪ ♪ Mother Earth protects us all.

♪ ♪ If you treat her with disrespect.

♪ ♪ Then what message have you left?

♪ ♪ For your children and their home.

♪ ♪ In the river is our sisters and our brothers.

♪ ♪ We are camping out for each other.

♪ ♪ We are stronger when we band together.

♪ ♪ And we're standing up for the water.

♪ ♪ Don't poison the future away.

♪ ♪ How can you take and take ♪ ♪ and not appreciate the soil.

♪ ♪ Don't let this black snake ♪ ♪ contaminate our drinking water.

♪ ♪ This is for our sons and daughters.

♪ ♪ In the river is our sisters and our brothers.

♪ ♪ We are camping out for each other.

♪ ♪ We are stronger when we band together.

♪ ♪ And we're standing up for the water.

♪ ♪ Don't poison the future away.

♪ Raye Zaragoza: This next song is a new song called 'Troubled Eyes.'

This song is about how people are their purest, truest, and most beautiful selves when they're sharing pain.

And it can be really hard to share pain but I feel that if you get through that, even if your voice shakes, it's showing your truest colors.

And I always want to be the person that people feel they can share their pain with free of judgment.

I think we all have troubled eyes sometimes and to have someone who will tell you you're troubled eyes are beautiful and that they'll be there while you're having a hard time, it's a beautiful thing.

♪ (upbeat guitar melody) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Raye Zaragoza (sings): There he goes again.

♪ ♪ Talking about the war again.

♪ ♪ There he goes again.

♪ ♪ Talking of things from before we met.

♪ ♪ Yeah there's beauty in you.

♪ ♪ When you let your pain shine through.

♪ ♪ You've got troubled eyes.

♪ ♪ It'll be alright.

♪ ♪ I won't leave until daylight.

♪ ♪ You won't remember you've had too much to drink.

♪ ♪ But I said I love your troubled eyes.

♪ ♪ Eyes.

♪ ♪ Eyes.

♪ ♪ Give me those sweet troubled eyes.

♪ ♪ (strums guitar fast and soft) ♪ ♪ There I go again.

♪ ♪ Falling for another broken man.

♪ ♪ There I go again.

♪ ♪ Hoping he clings to me cause I understand.

♪ ♪ Yeah there's beauty in you.

♪ ♪ When you let your pain shine through.

♪ ♪ You've got troubled eyes.

♪ ♪ It'll be alright.

♪ ♪ I won't leave until daylight.

♪ ♪ You won't remember you've had too much to drink.

♪ ♪ But I said I love your troubled eyes.

♪ ♪ Eyes.

♪ ♪ Eyes.

♪ ♪ Give me those sweet troubled eyes.

♪ ♪ Yeah I did it again, did it again.

♪ ♪ Oh I did it again, did it again.

♪ ♪ Oh I did it again, did it again.

♪ ♪ Oh I did it again.

♪ ♪ He's got troubled eyes.

♪ ♪ It'll be alright.

♪ ♪ I won't leave until daylight.

♪ ♪ You won't remember you've had too much to drink.

♪ ♪ But I said I love your troubled eyes.

♪ ♪ Eyes.

♪ ♪ Eyes.

♪ ♪ Give me those sweet troubled eyes.

♪ ♪