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I O U
02:34
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Graffiti’s our strategy for undoing authority
Drag your feet and sabotage
Call in sick and say you can’t
Go in today
“I’m sick ok”
just take your time and make them pay
Do the task and wear the mask
Pretend you care and if they ask
Tell em I, O, U, Nothing x2
Nothing, Nothing, Nothing
We're running on queer black time
So leave early
Steal their supplies
wear the mask and do the task
Pretend you care and if they ask
Tell em I, O, U, Nothing x2
Nothing, Nothing, Nothing
You're too beautiful to be a super model minority
no no you don't, oh no you dont owe any one
But we owe each other everything
We each other every thing
We owe each other every thing
Your too beautiful to be
A super model minority
Your too valuable to be
Neocolonial authority
Fade out
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing
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2. |
SEVER
04:24
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Sever
Intro
I have been severed from my hands
I have been severed from my feet
I have been severed from my arms
I have been severed from my legs
I have been severed from mind
I have been severed from my head
But I’m learning how to sow with this thread
Main melody
I as I sit here in the barber shop amongst my brothers and sons
Who saw me as their enemy, who taunted me with melodies
Still haunted by their scorn for me
(Bass falls away a little hear but guitars and drums remain)
Plugged my pain in speaker jack
Turned it up till mirrors cracked
And in the splinter glass I saw your hatred flinch
(Rhythm guitar starts to rise here for two bars)
There was no harmony just huddled fear that lives and breathes
And pulls up roots and tears down trees and digs out seeds.
(Drums punctuate end of bar with a little tippy tappy)
I am too tired to fight you, so instead I will invite you to our sowing class
Instrumental (both lead and rhythm guitar rise and bass changes)
X 2 bars
In the class we’ll sow a quilt soak up all the blood we’ve spilt
Wrap up the earth and spin it on its tilt
And make patches
This patch is my face but it isn’t me
This patch is all of my insecurities
This patch is my toxic masculinity
This patch is my face but it isn’t me
Instrumental (both lead and rhythm guitar rise and bass changes)
X 2 bars
(lead guitar punches with lyrics!)
I have been, you have been, we have been severed!
I have been, you have been, we have been severed!
Instrumental
X 2 bars
I have been severed from my arms
I have been severed from my legs
I have been severed from mind
I have been severed from my head
But I’m learning how to sow with this thread
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