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Until We Rebuild

by Zack Shaw

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1.
Indoctrination 03:07
2.
AmeriKKKa 03:37
3.
Pauper's Grave 04:18
4.
It's The End Of The World (I Feel Like Nothing) 05:25
5.
Soft Refracted Light (Solidarity) 04:12
6.
I Don't Want To Be a Soldier 03:08
7.
Love Letter To a Nation (The Plight, The Inquiry, The Reprieve) 08:00

about

People are so violent
Humanity is violent
I lay in bed and curse in my mind
Am I at peace?
Am I a pillar of strength?
I spend too much time thinking of myself
I wish I could save them from themselves
Their mournful whimpers
My pathetic bitterness
I picture my father in tears
I wonder if he thinks of me lifeless
Do I turn blue?
Who goes first?
When will I know what I’m supposed to be?
The world is a mess of vultures and mice
Bacteria and spit
Saliva covering this fleshy wreckage
My slouched back in pain from laying around all day
I should burn a mark on my arm every time I don’t know where to turn
Why do they pray on us?
Why do we have to march and stomp?
One by one
Two by two
Why did they kill my brother?
On the street with no dignity, the tar in his teeth
In a high tower they make their brooding eternal
They breathe fire and carbon monoxide
Trap our mother in her misery
She watches from the edge of the forest with supernovas burning out in her eyes
Glass slippers on hot lava
I stare into the embers of still smoldering ash
Soot gets stuck under my fingernails when I try to pick up the embers
Another mark for my arm

Why do the tired get to escape
Whilst I am restless?

I don’t want to go to the hospital
I don’t want a nurse to risk their time on my sovereignty
I call on a breeze to blow away my emotions
The medicine is all gone
It was never really here
It’s a time trap
Ticking away as we see space
A storm of amoeba’s
Milking my immunity
Born with a silver spoon, gifted from two pairs of calloused hands
Stuffed into a cannon and shot across oblivion
When their misplaced rage ricochets into the mirror
It’s singular, it doesn’t extend an olive branch
It hates, hateful
It lodges slivers in my sunken brow
They laugh and yell and wave their guns
They fuck in their bread baskets and wipe the cum over their eyes
I wish I could spit on them in their house of cards and scream
Scream so loud until they can’t hear anymore
Until I can cower because I miss the opposition
I wish they would go away
Every bit of absence in my life
I wish it would be replaced with their completion

I feel my blood pressure rise, pouring over Wall Street
It crashes in a sad display of apathy
A billowing angry steam spilling from my ears
I kept it inside and it festered
I wheeze in the key of b flat
A stock market for my cells
I sell every share
Organ by failing organ
I cry
I cry
I cry
I can’t even cry
I want to believe in my sadness
I want to believe in anything

Why do the tired get to escape
Whilst I am restless?

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released August 14, 2020

Written, performed, recorded, mixed & mastered by Zack Shaw

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