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Blood Quantum
03:29
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Undermine tribal sovereignty
Breed away responsibility
Sever ties
Claim the land
This genocide will
Stain their hands
Drop by drop
The count goes on
Subordinate
and limit progeny
Regulate the bonds of ancestry
Racialize
Divest the lands
Paper genocide
to clean their hands
Drop by drop
Blood quantum
The metrics of race
The count goes…
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Les Allumettières
02:31
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Endless days lost to the grind
Countless women forfeit life
Martyrs of industry
All suffer in solidarity
Silence burns and crushes coal
Cold hands light our way no more
Maladie! White phosphorus consumes
Infants teethe on garments drenched in…
Sulphur masks the stench of open sores
Jaw bones crumble as they try to breathe
Silence burns and crushes coal
Cold hands light our way no more
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3. |
One Path, Many Voices
04:48
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One path
Dragged through life
Mouths of sand
Smother the fire
Our hearts lain low
From above and from below
Strings twist around our heads
Spineless dance of marionettes
The voiceless din
A crashing tide
Of weary sighs
Our hearts lain low
From above and from below
Strings twist around our heads
Spineless dance of marionettes
Avert your gaze
Bow your head
One path
Many voices denied
Reach across
The gaping divide
Our hearts lain low
From above and from below
Strings twist around our heads
Spineless dance of marionettes
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4. |
Essence of Petrichor
03:17
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After the summer rains have poured
I bask in the perfume of petrichor
Within the forest’s misty shroud
I breathe in the essence of parting clouds
As the haze begins to clear
I step through shadows silent and drear
Between the trees, a winding path
Amid the willow, birch, elm, and ash
Earth, water, and air!
Accept our prayer
Wind, soil, and rain!
Until we meet again
Before the leaves begin to turn
One last dance amid the ferns
Another season’s door is closed
And I await the winter storms
Earth, water, and air!
Accept our prayer
Wind, soil, and rain!
Until the sky’s caress is felt on my face again
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All Rise!
Faith
Delights in bondage
Evading ancient shame
Perversion spawn of doctrines and dogma
Deniers of the fetish mind
Have bred a clergy of sluts
Night
Bleak Canaan night
Horrors seep into the night
Screams escaping cellar doors
Herald these punishments of sin
Perversion spawn of doctrines and dogma
Coerce the flock to informal torture
Ad Extirpanda
Dormant desires
Sadists trading souls for gold
Shall be put to death
And their blood shall be upon them
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Forced from their homeland
Stateless
They wander on
Like faceless ghosts
The endless march
Takes its toll upon the weak
And syphons the sick at heart
Driven by despair
Toward borders barbed and thickly walled
The towers loom
Caged by the craven
Repurposed as the dreaded horde
Of unpersons we see no more
No more
Faceless
Hatred
Remorseless hearts
Stateless
Sacred
The endless march
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7. |
The Orphan Source
03:37
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Abandoned
Forgotten
The seeds of calamity
Lie in wait
Liberated from its cell
Toxic luminance
Lambent dust
Bestower of ruin
Candescent
Seductive
Human curiosity
Provokes fate
Liberated from its cell
Toxic luminance
Lambent dust
Bestower of ruin
Lesions defile flesh
Cellular decay
Ulcerated limbs to amputate
A deadly glow
The orphan source
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Beyond Necropolitics
04:45
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In guarded towers
Beyond the walls
Of class and colour
The count goes on
Enumeration
Of human lives
Who serve no purpose
Beads on a wire
Calculations of worthlessness
Who lives, who dies
Souls at the mercy of the abacus
Subjugating life
To the power of death
Inscribed by order
Subjects by birth
Assigning numbers
Assessing worth
In these conditions
What space is left
For human lives,
Gasping for breath?
Calculations of worthlessness
Who lives, who dies?
Souls at the mercy of the abacus
Subjugating life
To the power of death
Beyond Laws and state
Beyond Bureaucracy
Beyond Biopower
Beyond: therein lies the hope
Conceived in darkness
Ideas born
Of a timeless reverie
As long as chains
Bind the world
So burns the will
To set it free
Free from
Calculations of worthlessness
Of who lives and who dies
Souls at the mercy of the abacus
Always subjugating life
To the power of death
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