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Bern
01:44
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my every breath comes with a gag
i need you to show me
it’s time for me to finally say
i do have a choice
i need you to know me
it’s time for me to finally say
i do have a choice
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Courtney
02:09
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why sit still in this walking chair
close the binds and let me itch
it's so close, yet too far away
the flash cards are now caught on fire
i reach out to watch it burn
it's so close, yet too far away
the flash cards are now caught on fire
reach out and stroke the flame
i've locked the gate
and already made plans for today
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Prat
01:31
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guarantee glory for free refills,
we're all children next to veterans
sign me up, what i want is yours
shouting from a widened box
i'm learning to think like you and it stops right there
no one asked to be loved the way you love
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4. |
Simon
02:05
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the answer withheld and you try to hide it
(erase the maps)
cannot hear me, cannot see me
(rewrite the histories)
lead me outside certain ( new waters)
unlearn the tongues we’ve been taught
thank you for that rotten smell
that sour taste in my mouth
thank you for that rotten smell
swallow it and spit it out
skyscraper tower jenga set
one, two, three
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5. |
I Hate You
01:22
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it's so cold sitting in here
choke on your own fucking art
what's your reason for going on?
and what will be your reason for leaving?
read my reasons written only for your eyes
i'm still tall standing straight up, back against the wall
we can't do it ourselves
and we're not sure why it drags us along
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Jennifer
01:51
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you sing your song and i'll sing mine
it's not an accident
it's not coincidence
the buried cross (roads)
where we've met and leave off again,
marked to show our present scars
we won’t recognize your past
nor allow your future
more resources towards shackles
bars, barricades, batons
when teachers become jailors
-
you’ll save yourself and ill save mine
its not an accident
it's not serendipity
it's not what we want
it's what we've been told-
you're allowed a piece of me
it's
not
what we
want
it's
what
we've been
told-
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7. |
Canada
02:39
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no more excuses
weekend's here
just one more chance
for there's a next time
helpless against your velocity
too tired, angry, accepting
day by day I waited,
For tomorrow I wait
you hand me the moment
once it's slipped from your hands
i took the wheel while still half asleep
two.thousand pieces missing and missed
thank you and fuck,
no more excuses
no more next time
In that room, pen to paper
The words that meant so much,
With an effort that now feels like nothing
I remember, those bends in the paper.
I remember those tears in the lines
I remember those words.
no more excuses
no more next time
laughing in the kitchen
standing there smiling
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8. |
Hyphen-Youth
03:51
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hyphen youth,
carry on your back
a 2000 mile scar
30 foot wall
12 generation stare
carry on, a story told
the hyphen holds you in between
the golden lie, an ugly dream
(the line unfolds into)
a life written from the margins
taught to carry it in silence
more like a river bearing bodies
more like a bloom of scars on burdened backs
more like the curl of limb and lungs of orange
hyphen youth, carry on
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i am here by your grand design
i am here to paint new pictures
i'm not the first and no longer the last
so give me new lenses from which to burn
to paint new paints
why hide my color in a crowd (that's dead to me)
where we come from holds weight
i beg myself to paint new pictures
embrace the future
"When they demolish our homes, we turn the village’s graveyard into a home. They threaten to destroy it as well. Even if they do, we will dig graves in our own hands and live in them.
We’ll protect our dead and they’ll protect us"
-elderly Palestinian woman from Al-Araqib, a Palestinian-Bedouin village demolished 53 times in a three year period by the Israeli occupation
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