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1. |
Tinderbox
00:52
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Stand as tall as trees
Embers abound
Roots into streets deep below the pavement
Trembling leaves dancing vitally upon the crests of this fire
A summer so arid
flames you can’t smother
a summer so torrid
the voices won’t be smothered
with hearts alight
life and limb
through plumes that choke
but not their names that echo across buildings
every single night stares down the worn out barrels of hegemony
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2. |
Cavity
00:28
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As
The
Air hangs
Heavy
In every where
In every breath
Swallowed down into my bones
Deep down like a cavity
Decay within these frail bones
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3. |
Migratory Disruptions
00:21
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Thinned out migrations fraught
With disruption
Patterns fraying at the seams
Between the sky and the dirt
Fading edges
Barren horizons
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4. |
One Four Three
00:36
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One
Four
Three
Everyday it hits
Like a gentle reminder
Like the ticking of a bomb
Still waiting to defuse
One
Four
Three
I can’t be defused
One
Four
Three
Then miss a beat
(One last beat)
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5. |
Real Empty
00:38
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Indebted suffering
Come take me over
Indebted suffering
Come on come on come show me
Exactly
what it’s worth
Exactly
What I’m worth
Real empty
How many years should I have left to go?
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6. |
Semiotica
00:23
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Great signifier
Relieve this confusion
Tell me everything I’m not
I’m your negative space
I’m the hole you can’t repair
I’m your hole
A hollow you cannot bear
So I internalize it
Just to fake seeming whole
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7. |
Aftercare
01:20
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These autumn days grow so heavy
A bitter taste of copper fills my mouth
Residential Sarin in the back of my throat
Scared eyes look through bedroom windows all lit up with that tv glow
Except for those who call so loud
Who can see through poison clouds
Shadow burns
Scrubbing at the scars
Shadow burns
Scrubbing at the scars
Fading like the future
Hold it under running water
Cauterize my insides
I can’t take it any longer
It’s far too late
And far too gone you and I know well
Feigned time traveler
Concussed without any sense of where and when
Whose blood is this
Whose blood is this
Whose blood is this
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8. |
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What makes a queen
Rich opulence, impoverished of a soul?
Or a sense of feeling
Your best self
Without succumbing to toxic inculcations
I would rather die yearning love
Than learn to love being alone
If it meant that repressed identities could be set free
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9. |
Protection Spell
00:42
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I gave it all the time to heal
Still I can’t bring myself to face
My sense of worth measured against
That amount of time it takes to heal
Still just an inversion
Like a mirror
Facing a mirror
Reverse polarities
Go ahead
Defuse me
It’s coming back around
Full circuit from me through you
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10. |
Underlying Conditions
01:08
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Our modern day conditions
Much like those of the past
Just keep denying the cure
Much as they have in the past
I’m sick so sick since being born
I’m sick so sick since being born
I’m sick so sick since being born
I’m sick so sick since being born
It’s endemic, myriad co-dependencies between the self
And faulty systems
We know your failures
We are your failures
Failures
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11. |
Ruinous
00:29
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Tear it down
Tear it apart
Bit by bit
Threadbare foundations
Feeble grasp
Centuries
of slippage
To what end is it worth holding on
When built within these walls is planned obsolescence?
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12. |
Personal Simulation
00:47
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The cyclic vacillations between a lack of focus and stubborn inhibitions
Back and forth again are a closed circuit
Out of step my heartbeat and my breath
Asynchronous disruptions
Try to lean into it
The paradox of critique
For its own sake
A multi-conversationalist
Is what I keep on telling myself
I’m easily convinced
Is what I tell myself
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13. |
Stormbound
00:39
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Foisted calm to pacify
Turn on the tamer break the cage
Honestly, the surging fires have been fueled for years by the banks that are now engulfed
Yet only now can they see the flames
And we should let them burn
Burn the debts that keep us stormbound
Wipe the records clean of baseless claims
Solely meant as chains
A great reversal
Lock’em in their own jails.
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14. |
Safe Mode
00:34
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Finding ourselves in material wealth
These places that promise you safety and warmth
Wrapped up in vinyl
and sheaths made of stone
Don’t stand a chance
in high
winds
Bend like a tree
Not like a coward
Brittle façade of fast fashion
Such a model patron
So distinguished
I see you trembling
in a glass house of privilege
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15. |
Rewild
00:56
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These streets are not streets
They’re fields full of obstructions
Through the cracks are reactions
Breakdown and replenish ages of soil
Weeds busting up through the concrete
World’s that were buried under the bounties of
imperialist infrastructures
In the twilight hour
Across mountainous ruins
Howling clarion calls
The reemerging wolves and dogs
I feel it rise inside me
Tides of vengeance
Turn fury into song
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16. |
Reckoning
01:22
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Still thinking of healing
Lately
All the ways that I could mend it
Not to go back as it used to be
A whole new way of being
I wanna feel it all anew
No more manic compression
I’m bottled up with condensation
I wanna let it all release I’m gonna explode like the dams that beg removal
No more tolerance for exploitations no more ledges for me
No borders on our lands
No more masters
No more gods
Only true representation for what we really are
I swear
I can
See it
On the
horizon
If history tells us anything
It’s at least that everything unsustainable
Is in its throes
Like a death rattle
Like a swan song
Whether or not they admit their day of reckoning
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