Name: I O U
Duration: P00H02M34S
Description: IOU is a cute little song about the fact that BIPOC (black indigenous people of colour) do not owe whitness a damn thing. Not a toenail clipping of energy. But we (all people of all places) owe each other everything, we owe each other solidarity, hope, amplification, respect, love and rage against the hegemonic hydra of oppressionz.

I O U

from IOU/SEVER by Screaming Toenail

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IOU is a cute little song about the fact that BIPOC (black indigenous people of colour) do not owe whitness a damn thing. Not a toenail clipping of energy. But we (all people of all places) owe each other everything, we owe each other solidarity, hope, amplification, respect, love and rage against the hegemonic hydra of oppressionz.

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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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from IOU/SEVER, track released March 7, 2020
This song was made by Screaming Toenail. God Bless.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Margo Bloom at Hermitage Studios

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