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do not peel me
do not prune me
release me wild
said the planet
to her people
talk to me
in avocado/
in skin/
navel
pressing against
navel /
speak to me in
marshmallow
dipping in
hot chocolate /
in landscape
not portrait/
in light more so
than silhouette /
do not lose
me in translation/
picture me
perfect/
mistake me not /
memorise
the structure
of these
holy mountainous
hips
like verses
that existed
before
scripture
resuscitate
these chapped lips
in holy water /
forget me not
I am beyond
the concrete brick
of church
beyond the iron glove of
state
resuscitate this
breath
so I can
be your lung/
call me by my name
ruler
lover
fighter
sovereign
freedom
friend/
you speak to me
in pistol and bullet/
in dead children
and bloody flags
un-claim me /
do not speak to
me in your silence
the cousin
of violence/
un-fence me
in the presence
of the moon
un-draw the line
where your country
stops
and mine begins/
you speak to me
in acid rain
with coal mines
in your pocket
and oil fields
dripping from
your palms/
do not talk to me
in fear of the sea
in your pain
speak to me
in olive branch
and dove wing
instead
talk to my summer
and to my yellow
speak to me in
changing seasons
and cycles
my constitution
knows only of
the currency
of heart beat
rumi
chaka khan
I know not
the language
of statistics
and stocks
mansions
and mercedes /
talk to me in
wind kiss
in dandelion wishes
in river reeds
feather
cotton
sheet clouds/
in
indigo
dyed sky
dust settling
and sunset
finger painting
dreams/
un change me
do not peel me
do not prune me
speak to me
of human
becoming
to me what
the bandage
is to the wound/?
wrap yourself
around me
before it’s
too late
wrap yourself
around me
before it’s
too late
wrap yourself
around me
before it’s
too late
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Changes
04:35
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Never agree and never concede
Never agree and never concede
Never agree and never concede
If you never see those changes
Getting all the land
Spending what we can
Never know the face of the man
Who controls the plan
And never know the plan at all
People seem to me
To think that they’re free
Never separating want from need
More afraid of refugees
Than of corporate greed
And all of these people, so desperately
They are vying for places in a society that fails them
It systematically -
Cause it’s too big to fail
On exactly what scale?
Cause there’s so many people
And they are living in hell
And the road has been paved by
Those people who we cheered for
Never agree and never concede
Never agree and never concede
Never agree and never concede
If you never see those changes
Not seeming to be thinking consciously
Just focus on your individuality
But your ignorance concedes your complicity
Your planet's in pain and the ones who proclaim
Infinite gain - they wont feel the rain right away
But the shame gonna come and claim them
When they try to explain
Why the delay
Making those changes
Well well when we gonna change
I'm asking when we gonna change?
Your planet's in pain
Your planet's in pain
If it was your mamma
Would you do the same?
Well baby that ain't rain falling down your face
That's your mamma crying out your name
Asking when you gonna change?
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3. |
Joy
06:07
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Have you seen Joy?
I swear I left her here
Have you seen my Joy?
I want my mother’s milk, you hear
I have enjoyed my Joy
For most of my life
And I will not live
Unless Joy will be my wife
Won’t you be my wife
I want you, I want you
I’ve been dredging my soul up
I’ve been watching these tides roll up
I try to find Joy in the most unlikely places
But I see Joy’s hanging out less and less
In these kind of spaces
Have you seen Joy?
I swear I left her here
Have you seen Joy?
I want my mother’s milk, you hear
So I’ve been trying to create space
I thought Joy might dig it if I got myself a new pace
Oh and she did you know, she come around
She come around here once or twice
But she always got some good excuse why she can't stay the night
(Oh stay the night sister, stay the night!)
Have you seen Joy?
I need her, I need her
Have you seen Joy?
My Joy, My Joy….
Well if she never comes back, yes
I’ll go and find her, I’ll go and I'll find her in my sadness
If Joy’s gonna be so god damned tactless
I’ll go and find her, I’ll find her in my sadness
I’ll go and find her in my sadness
I’ll find her in my sadness
I’ll find her in my sadness
Find her in my sadness
My sadness, my sadness, my sadness
I’ll go and find her in my...
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4. |
Love Facilitator
04:34
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I try to love daily
That’s my morning and afternoon’s work
But by the evening I’m so numb
That I don’t have a sense of it’s worth
I’ve been failing lately
To advance since my birth
My new one borne of pain
Not of love like the first
Oh the pain of being someone
Who’s got seeing as her curse
The curse of always turning out
A hypocrite or worse
It’s getting harder to tell
What is good, what is bad
While we sleep through this hell
Taking from the mothers
While I fail myself
I’ve been feeling too weak
To make myself strong
To feel all this pain
And keep the love flowing on
I hope I can grow my roots
So deep down in the ground
That I’ll share my love
Like trees a’dropping leaves up all around
I’ll be a Love Facilitator
We can be Love Facilitators
Let’s all be Love Facilitators
Just remember what your mamma taught ya
And oh if she never taught ya
Well baby maybe well you oughta just look a little broader
Cause love is the answer
And love is the proof
And love is the thing
That we need to induce
Love is the hope
That we feel amongst the waste
So let love be the medal
And love can be our race
Let’s all be Love Facilitators
Come on with me, sing it - Love Facilitators
Just remember what your mamma taught ya
We could be happy, won’t you agree
If we could just share our love freely…
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Hard
05:30
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Well Samuel said it best
I don’t feel at home in this world anymore
All this taking up
Not waking up
Not facing up
Not taking up the spaces that we aught to be
Or changing things for better, and we
Might as well be parasites
If all we do is fight
I wanna love you but you’re making it hard
Samuel said it best
I don’t feel at home in this world, never did
But I try to be vulnerable
And hold to the faith that ill find
Something of meaning in life
Love it might be love I’m sure
But loves no certainty at all
I’m supposed to make it in a world that’s hard
I’m supposed to make it in a world that’s hard
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7. |
Forgiveness
07:28
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There’s a wide flowing river
There's an ocean forever
There's a flood
A flood of forgiveness
In my heart for you
Well there's a mountain in my mind
Lush green valleys in my eye
Oh yes, there's a forest
A whole forest of forgiveness
In my heart for you
In my heart for you
Well there's a star up in the sky
For every tear that I've cried
Forgiving and reliving you
There may be a galaxy of faith
One that can hold all of our love and pain
That's the kind of space for forgiveness
In my heart for you
But with all this space for you
The one thing I forget to do
The one thing I just can't say
Since you left in this way
That I, no I cannot forgive myself
I cannot forgive…
When will I forgive myself?
So let this be me…
Yes I said, let this be me…
Let this be me forgiving myself, myself…
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8. |
So It Goes
04:16
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Well it’s kind of funny
When you’re feeling so lonely
Well you could have had
All the things you wanted
But now you’re so lonely
Oh well it’s kind of great
The twists that it takes
You see I’m finding my old self
Well I’m once again alone
And I’m looking for someone
I’m always looking for that someone
Oh well don’t you think it’s cruel
Cause I’m here missing you
But it’s you that I don’t want
And honey this I know
But I still won’t let you go
I still won’t let you go
But baby I will
Cause you know that I must
I must let you go
I must let you go
I must let you go
Well, so it goes
I guess that’s just how it goes
So baby I will
Cause you know that I must
I must let you go
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Rat Child Melbourne, Australia
Powerful soul vocals combined with mellow grooves and an earnest knack for authentic political and personal storytelling. Based on stolen Wurundjeri Country
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