Coltan as Cotton

Hack into dietary sustenance-tradition vs. health. Hack into comfort-compliance. Hack into the rebellious gene. Hack into doctrine- capitalism in relation to free labor and slavery. Hack into the history of the bank. Is beating the odds a mere act of joining the winning team?Hack into desperation and loneliness. The history of community and the marketplace. Hack into land rights and ownership. Hack into business law proprietorship. Hack into ambition and greed. Hack into forms of government. Systems of control. Their relation to suffering and sufferance. Hack into faith and morality. The treatment of one faith towards another.Hack into masculinity/femininity sexuality. What is taught? What is felt? What is learned? What is shared? Hack into God. Stories of creation: serpents and eggs. Hack into nature. Bio-dynamics. Bio-diversity. Cycles and seasons. Hack into time. Calendars. Descartes. It's relationship to doubt. Is it wired to fear. The notion of control. The space/time continuum. The force of gravity. Whether the opposite of gravity is freedom. Hack into freedom. Power. Responsibility. Justice. The Bill Of Rights. Hack into coincidence. The summer of '68. The 27 club. The number of people with Facebook profiles. People who choose to share. People who share too much. People who seem lonely. People who want to connect. People who need uplifting. Hack into self-help self-sufficiency and self indulgence. Hack into crazy. Hack into lunatic. Hack into star. Hack into infamous/notorious. The effects of the constructs of poverty on the psyche. The effect of the construct of race. The victims that survived. THERE IS A PANEL MARKED survival. THREE SIMPLE COPPER WIRES COILED ROUND AN ORB. Hack into orbit. Equatorial land mines. Useful and precious metals. COLTAN AS COTTON. Hack into hazardous. Nuclear, blue clear. Cloud form and fish farm. Cow farts and pig shit. Hack into horse. Industrial. Digital. Hack into code. Use your instrument as metaphor. Harness your craft. Hack into the mainframe. Dismantle definition dogma and duty. Hack into destiny. Hack into dreams subtext and subconscious. Hack into heart-cardio-Congo-blood rich in oil. Hack into suffering and despair. Hack into the unfair advantage of those lucky enough to be born into one family or another into one condition or another. Hack into the circumstantial evidence that proves the obvious and wakes the oblivious. Hack into birthright bloodlines royal and tainted. Hack into superstition. Old Wives Tales. The rituals of the shaman. Hack into DNA chemistry. The pharmaceutical industry. The modern day rape of the forest. Hack into celebrity. Hack into the cultural development of taste. Hack into violence fear and ignorance.
How are they linked?

These MTHRFCKRS

These MTHRFCKRS don't want to back down, ay yay, ay yay, ay yay.
These MTHRFCKRS don't want to back down, ay yay, ay yay, ay yay.
These MTHRFCKRS don't want to back down, ay yay, ay yay, ay yay.
These MTHRFCKRS don't want to back down, ay yay, ay yay, ay yay.

Child of the diaspora.
I don't know what tribe I'm from.
But I'm fighting for freedom.

Don't believe in tribe no more.
Child of the messiah's whore.
And I'm fighting for freedom,
justice, and then some.

MTHRFCK the government
MTHRFCK the banks
MTHRFCK the crimes of war by drone by gun by tank MTHRFCK the apathy
MTHRFCK disease
MTHRFCK the chemicals the cancers killing bees MTHRFCK the president
MTHRFCK the king
MTHRFCK religious thought here's how angels sing
These MTHRFCKRS don't want to back down ay yay, ay yay, ay yay.

The Order of Time

This is what it looks like.
The blur of uniformity.

This is the end of the question of fear.
When the pain is always normative.

These same men held hoses,
wrote treaties, invented laws.
And none of it was yours.

They did it just because.

All while boring the fuck out of me.
I feel wavy. I feel wonderful.

Meanwhile I feel lucky to be. ‘Cause it’s all worth getting

In trouble for.

Chopped off the hands of time.
Where’s the crime?

These same men held hoses,
wrote treaties, invented laws.

And none of it was yours.

They did it just because.

All while boring the fuck out of me.
I feel wavy. I feel wonderful.

Meanwhile I feel lucky to be.
‘Cause it’s all worth getting
In trouble for.

You will never control
the order of time.

Horn of the Clock-Bike

Red stain on the concrete
Disdain for the bare feet
Work work my kitango
No perk for the bongo
Whose presence is charity?
Who's fresh from disparity?
Who's arms wide open?
Who's strange fruit smoking?
Paint on a canvas
Carved from a pancreas
Blue for the water
Red for the daughter
(Money money money...)
Green what the land was
First hand, second second hand laws
Horn of the clock-bike
Thorn of the crown-spike
Smile of the victor
Child of the prisoner
Statues of martyrs
Hackers as artists
Shout-out to Atlantis
First hand, second second hand us
Thorn of the cross-spike
Horn of the clock-bike

Masters of institution
Masters of space and time
Masters of great delusion
Masters of the mind
I'm your master
I'm your master
I'm your master
Yes your master
Yes I am

Amble faster
Can't go faster
And your demise is unprecedented

Masters of institution
Masters of space and time
Masters of great delusion
Masters of the mind

She craves to be mastered
Does what she has to
Thorn of the half-life
Born on the path, life
Questions of teachers
Threatens of preachers
Do what she gotta
To not mother no martyrs
Who threatens the monarchy
Whose presence is charity?
Who eyes wide open?
Who paid that token?
Jumped over turnstile
Calm one that grow wild
Thorn of the crown spike
Horn of the clock-bike
The horn of the clock-bike
The horn of the clock-bike
The horn of the clock-bike
The horn of the clock-bike
The horn of the clock-bike
The horn of the clock-bike

His Dilemma (Interstitial Spoken Word)

Every morning I rise and face the firing squad
Every morning there is one who holds his fire
His dilemma is my system of belief
They fire rounds but I am seldom in their circle
a quiet mind is labeled 'sound' and colored purple
my little boy has not yet learned to color within lines
his jumbled diction has not yet learned our contradiction
we speak of art with flaming passion
then do work void of compassion
and wonder why reality is bleeding fiction.

Think Like They Book Say

Met this girl on Friday night
Rocky Horror Picture night
Cuban stoagie
Karaoke
Purple satin bra & tights
That's what I was wearing
She was wearing red and purple light
White smoke had high hopes
Keith Haring's straight ghost
Flowed past
In topaz
We brushed hands. I took a note:
James Baldwin once wrote:
"Love is not remote"

Girl, boy, we seek joy
We hurt none, we heart hope
Girl, boy, we seek joy
We hurt none, we heart hope
Girl, boy, we seek joy
We hurt none, we heart hope

Girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl
Girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl
Girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl
Girl, boy, we seek joy
We hurt none, we heart hope

Hope hollow as fear they say
Ça c'est pas ecrit they say
Tudo mundo nesse mundo
Pense comme il veut they say

Think black them think gay
Think like they book say
Think like, they think like
They think like they book say

They cannot imagine if they do not see it in a book
Even when they see it it's their book that tell them how to look

Think white them think straight
Think like they book say
Think like, they think like
They think like they book say

Met a girl on Friday and I did not see her in no book
Ain't no Vogue or Cosmo that can tell me how she supposed to look
She was once a he, was once a argument against the book
Mommy and her daddy loved her she became the form the took

Think like they book say
They think like they book say
They think like, they think like, they think like
They book say
Think like they book say
They think like they book say
They think like, they think like, they think like
They book say

Truth is not a theory that can be imprisoned in any book
Word are sometimes. Prison sometimes prisms from the way you look

Think like they book say
Think like they book say
Think like, they think like, they think like they book say

Girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl
Girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl
Girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl
Girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl

People Above the Moon

Light years, aching inside
Light years, the hopeless desperation that I felt

Picture a dream and dare to live it
Open your soul and dare to give it
Consume my woes and daily fears
Rebels opposing, no one dares
To crush the desperation that is felt
You live in doubt

Picture a dream and dare to live it
Open your soul and dare to give it
Consume my woes and daily fears
Rebels opposing, no one dares
To crush the desperation that is felt
When you live in doubt

People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon

Picture a dream and dare to live it
Open your soul and dare to give it
Consume my woes and daily fears
Rebels opposing, no one dares
To crush the desperation that is felt
When you live in doubt

People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon
People above the moon

Underground

First, they cut the radio
Then they cut the television
They locked down the internet
Then locked up the opposition
Underwhelmed by the intent
Overwhelmed what else is left
Underscore the overpaid
Whose million's already made

And I’m underground
And I’m underground

We hid in the library
Of the university
Under “o” for oligarch
Under “p” for patriarch
Under money in the ground
Under siege, complete surround

Down For Some Ignorance

Yeah, I know we down for the ignorance
Yeah, yeah you see me on the internet
My life is down, my life is down
Yeah it's down in the ignorance

Makers of diseases, down for some ignorance
Chemicals and feces, down for some ignorance
Computers delete us, down for some ignorance
Don't care how they treat us, down for some ignorance
Fresh on the streets and I'm down for some ignorance
Fear of defeat and I'm down for some ignorance
Stockholders meet and they're down for some ignorance
Frere of the meek and we're down for some ignorance
Down

Down for some ignorance, down
Puppets of religion, down for some ignorance
God has no religion, down for some ignorance
Fear and superstition, down for some ignorance
Patriarchal mission, down for some ignorance
Bombs over beats and I'm down for some ignorance
Guns over peace and I'm down for some ignorance
Sow what you reap, TV down for some ignorance
Know not but teach yes we're down for some ignorance
Down

Encrypted and Vulnerable

A new form of light

I was beside myself
Mars beside the moon

The naked eye, the channel
The remote satellite, the crystal stair
The harbored light, the encrypted message

And I got a friend
Who's in cybersecurity
Picture that!

Another one
That builds platforms
In cyber-secure worlds
But we're all susceptible
We're all susceptible
Picture that!

Save/Delete
Save/Delete
Save/Delete

You were never erased
From the question
You were never erased
From the question

You were never erased
You were never erased
You were never erased
From the question

You were born
Encrypted and vulnerable

And that's what I like about you

You were born every day
And when the rebels were born

I was beside myself
Mars beside the moon

The naked eye
The encrypted satellite

The darkness The darkness
Is lost in her eyes

Lost in her eyes

I was beside myself
I was beside myself

We Get What You Deserve

Take my hand.
There’s no death in this.
The police have gathered
with you plastic shields.

Dreaming. Dreaming
of a gentle kiss.
Our innocence taken
against our will.
We get what you deserve.
We get what you deserve.
We get what you deserve.

Sight unseen. Sound unheard.

Dreaming. Dreaming.
Buried in light.
There’s no death in this.
There’s no death in this.
There’s no death in this.

We get what you deserve.
We get what you deserve.
We get what you deserve.

Eternal life.

The Noise Came From Here

We won't be silenced, no, the noise came from here
A never ending war will not be waged from here
The future is my home it all came from here
Police and sirens, guns are on parade right here
You never touch my love

Your sirens and your guns, you know we paid for it all
Your scripture severing tongues, you know we paid for it all
With oil and our blood, you know we paid for it all
We won't be silenced, no, because we paid for it all

The bullets in your guns, you know we paid for it all
With oil and our blood, you know we paid for it all
We won't be silenced, no you know we paid for it all
You never touch my love
The bullets in your guns, you know we paid for it all
With oil and our blood, you know we paid for it all
We won't be silenced, no you know we paid for it all
You never touch my love

You never touch my love
You never touch my love
You never touch my love

We won't be silenced, no, we won't restrain
We won't be silenced, no, we won't restrain
We won't be silenced, no, we won't restrain
We won't be silenced, no, they won't restrain