Children of Exile

from HYPERSIGIL MEGAPRAYER by Sleepwreck

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Children of Exile

A thousand generations cast off of the Land
By blind capital's invisible hand
Roots cut starve the fruits then they wither the branch
Pass down abuse to your children again and again
Now go ahead and forget
Those who came before you and those who haven't yet
There's only one story that matters and you're the hero of it
It's just the one in your head
Forget it.
Now come and listen to this prophecy.
I'm here to tell you what this prophet sees
We're walking in this pain, the Land locked in chains
Not even water is free
From here to horizon mined to prop the elite
We need to trade in our philosophy
Because the Land is the Life Giver, not a piece of property.

They said you could be anything you wanted to be
So you swallowed the dream
You got your college degrees
But now you're too busy paying for your laundry machine
They've got you too busy to breath
Too busy to stop and hear the wind in the trees
Fit to drop but we're locked into chasing a dream
Drinking the rivers to keep the grass in the lawn green
Selling out our children to keep the bombs free
But wait.
Could't there be another way?
In stillness listening, hearing it quicken
The soil is singing a song of better days
A silent revolution set inside of a seed
A vibrant evolution of all that it means
To be a humble human on Earth, alive and free.

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from HYPERSIGIL MEGAPRAYER, released June 21, 2018

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