Lyrics: Shabaka Hutchings
Music: Shabaka Hutchings
They come to conquer
Land, mind and sea
Justify the feeling
Claim it’s their basic need
The right to enslave
They come to speculate futures
I stay blind to the sharks
That reside in the heart
Clear the way
I deserve another start
Sail away, sail away
To the time of the mindless
They want the world up in flames
They want the sky to destroy
The unrighteous to suffer
The poor to pick up the scorn
Cry security when they cause the pain
Martyrs are born again
Best believe they plant the seed
Can't you see the world's in pain?
Please perceive my need to preach non-violence
While the usual suspects suffer in silence
While we cast our gaze south of the eyelids
Space craft, undercover rocket sub launcher
Require the symmetry your ancestors taught ya
Hand me the fire that I might breathe another day
Go astray my young one, go astray
Speak with pride, heart
Bury your concerns
See the way through
We survived many moons
Remember the era when thoughts roamed the plane
Sankofa in your dreams
Lest we be born again
She said she knew, but she lied
They use arrogance to cover knowledge gaps
Facts become a triumph of fiction
Formulate a set of tools
Break the rules
Addiction adjacent to hierarchical placement
Work three times harder than your peers
You dream of the freedom to relive the years that were held in bondage
Man-made mechanical, automated device
Capitalistic monster, we swim in our vice
Don’t compare me to your earliest desire to return to the womb
The dark personified by the optics of enclosure
If you can subject what you fear
You can predict the rate of growth
Troubled markets, speculation
Trial and error
Deliver a vision of futures
They don’t know no better than their forefathers
And their forefathers
And their kin
Epistemological reasoning based on the zeitgeist
The benefit of hindsight
The reason that we can’t fly straight into the sun
Carry the children on the backs of our beliefs
The deceit lies shallow
Confidence propped up on deep structures
Enemy, enemy lines
Steady your gaze
Widen your feet
This is not a drill
You are not unique
We’ve been here before
Carrying the weak
Stay up
Show no fear
Formulate
Demand
Idle threats prophetic
Termination plan
Termination plan