Empire
from Does Not Equal by Anon Speak
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Welcome – to the terror dome, slave to the throne / where unmarked graves paid for the pavement since the day of invasion / first nations – enslaved – slaughtered and stolen, treated as / fauna, frontier wars, amassing the trauma – that continues today / whole generations taken by force – for the good of the state / whitewashed apology minus the sovereignty honestly get no applause / enormous the colony – on a land that always was, always / will be indigenous, no legal fiction however insidious always be yours / - from when ships hit the shore – nothing but massacres, grabbing the land to the / packing of cells, infant mortality rampant and tragedy adds to the poor health / - life expectancy crushed, deaths in custody said that he can’t breathe / let them speak, don’t intervene if it aims to demean like NT / emergency, knee deep in blood and murk, down under, six feet / while the crown continues to run the country – like fuck the history /
- something needs to change – no life has died in vain /
no white ally stay silent – grow power from pain /
Survive the empire - shots fired
Lives of cultural pride - not silent
Cross lines, black and white - united
Destroy the empire - inspired
Back to black, like an armband wound and strapped, to the bicep / - as an act of respect – unlike the lack of reparations hate and / devastation aimed at the dispossessed – we need to pay the rent / indebt to a constitution – lawful excuses written in jest / - racism, locally made, systemically e-rased, by the benefactors / benefitting from ignorance be-littling black rights for our better living / no recognition – intense – like the embassy in protest / heresy of the Christian missions, using religion to whip the hopeless / com-plicit – we watch from a distance, no real skin in the game / com-plicit – we offer opinions, not our place to complain / envisage – active transformation, fostering hope / share wisdom – centre the violence of history, murder they wrote / - anger and shame, run in the veins of the sunburnt plains now bleached / - find the rage, don’t hide away when you should find your feet /
- something needs to change – no life has died in vain /
no white ally stay silent – grow power from pain /
Survive the empire - shots fired
Lives of cultural pride - not silent
Cross lines, black and white - united
Destroy the empire - inspired
- something needs to change – no life has died in vain /
no white ally stay silent – grow power from pain /
Survive the empire - shots fired
Lives of cultural pride - not silent
Cross lines, black and white - united
Destroy the empire - inspired
Back to black, like an armband wound and strapped, to the bicep / - as an act of respect – unlike the lack of reparations hate and / devastation aimed at the dispossessed – we need to pay the rent / indebt to a constitution – lawful excuses written in jest / - racism, locally made, systemically e-rased, by the benefactors / benefitting from ignorance be-littling black rights for our better living / no recognition – intense – like the embassy in protest / heresy of the Christian missions, using religion to whip the hopeless / com-plicit – we watch from a distance, no real skin in the game / com-plicit – we offer opinions, not our place to complain / envisage – active transformation, fostering hope / share wisdom – centre the violence of history, murder they wrote / - anger and shame, run in the veins of the sunburnt plains now bleached / - find the rage, don’t hide away when you should find your feet /
- something needs to change – no life has died in vain /
no white ally stay silent – grow power from pain /
Survive the empire - shots fired
Lives of cultural pride - not silent
Cross lines, black and white - united
Destroy the empire - inspired
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from Does Not Equal,
released March 4, 2022
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Anon Speak Melbourne, Australia
anon speak formed in late 2008 as a hip-hop project. They continue to evolve musically and sonically, experimenting with bass music and industrial beat music.
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