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I met a woman from nantucket
She told me her ancestors were the first settlers
I looked at her incredulous and asked
'So you're a wamponaug?'
She didn't blink. She didn't get it..
She said a whaaaat?
I turned around and walked it off
I gotta vent, i'll write a song
Maybe somebody it listens to
Someday might strike a chord

There's a land where every child woman and man could be loved
But that land's so far away
And it's too easy- in these lives we repeat to forget where we stand
As we toil away the days


I guess this life was too much of a gift for us
We're like a kid at christmas with a wishlist
Convinced real quick that the world was ours
And we could do away with ease
anything we deemed misfit
I mean, look what we did to the world at a distance
From a plane i see plagues spreading
The physical rash of a so-called civil existence
Shit, i wonder what the birds think
But nowadays they don't know any different
That water been poisoned
Boy what you keep sippin? See
The sick bitch is ingrained
Ever since that first pinhead
Had the idea to get his way
over others. oh druthers
the technologically more advanced
gained the advantage
and clinched a cold death grip fist
and never gave a hand
they only took them,
only stole them from their native lands and histories
there's no forgiving unforgetables
there's only living with the fallout
regrets and all
but stop repeating the misdeeds
I hear my brother shottasay
'it's like we are in the 60s'
unpopular war
spaceflight again
And oh you thought we were through it
we're race rioting
And that hates wired deep in us
but it's harder to see
still there, just not as apparent
as it used to be
and if you thought it otherwise
most likely you're white
but we were wrong
maybe averting our eyes
maybe it hurts to imagine
and it's hard to describe
we won't ever know how it feels
to live life marginalized
so white privilege apologists
it's not about apology
It's an acknowledgement
Empathize.
see I could never wear your shoes
but I could recognize
the care you take to move in them
and I could stand in solidarity
and move with you
and I can feel the pain you feel
because we're all human
and the conversation needs to ignite
until we all feel privileged to be alive

There's a land
where every child woman and man could be loved
And it seems so far away
But it's so easy- if we all could agree to reflect where we stand
See that land is ours to break
And it's so easy-if we all could agree to reflect where we stand
See that world is ours to make

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from death or evolution, released November 23, 2015
Theremin by Samurai Banana
Guest vocals by The Gent

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