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Pedagogintro
01:31
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Just when you needed her
to be a banal blur,
On the surface simplicity
but you lay her down you'll see
She's nobody else.
She's not simply help.
She may change your world
like nobody else.
Assume and you may think
he has a head of meat.
On the surface simplicity,
but a layer down you'll see.
He's nobody else.
He's not simply help.
He may change your world
like nobody else.
To protect each other from the blight
we use the color and the light
and melanin's a melody.
To protect each other through the night
we use our hearts as second sight
to wade us through what we can't see.
Justice is blinding me
to find an honesty.
On the surface simplicity,
but there's truth in everything.
And I'm nobody else.
You're nobody else.
We can change the world
with everyone's help.
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At times an act of love's a fight.
Opposing lovelessness is right.
Assimilation's chased with zeal.
Adhesion eases what is real.
Permed out. Sauced up.
Blending is no defense.
Forget them. Free you.
Your defense is your strength.
You want all of the things your oppressor has,
including an equivalent to you.
Please don't start the circle again.
Look at your oppressor and realize the one difference
Your burden is greater than those who put it upon you.
Your job's to teach the people who taught the ignorance you've shed what you've learned from it.
For there is no way that they know what you've learned.
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Heart Alarm
04:06
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Sometimes I think I hear you stare at me
and your eyes sound just like the sunrise
when it peaks it's head above the window pane to make sure I'm alive
Can this be
that you would be the one to share my life
We're past the past. Today is paradise
To protect each other through the night we use our hearts as alarms
Oh to make sure that we're alright
Oh, we'll make sure that we're alright
Some tides can move the change of life ashore
And sureness like the tides can rise and fall
But each wave leaves a line to mark the amplitude of change it left before
Can this be
and put it on a shelf inside your mind
above the can't and won't and fear of harm
To protect each other through the night we use our hearts as alarms
Oh, to make sure that we're alright
Oh, we'll make sure that we're alright
Oh, just make sure that we're alright
'Cuz i feel I'm fallin in love with you.
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Consequence is not fate
Nature's eye turned it's way
Until the levees break
they can't relate.
Songe donc, nous savoir.
In the rain
In the ashes
In the ford
In the flood
Songe donc, nous savoir.
Dans le pluie
Dans le cendres
Dans le gue
Dans le crue
Crooked paths are made straight
Nature is not a lady
Until their own homes shake
they can't see Haiti.
Songe donc, nous savoir.
In the rain
In the ashes
In the ford
In the flood
Songe donc, nous savoir.
Dans le pluie
Dans le cendres
Dans le gue
Dans le crue
(Repeat)
The only limit is our imagination.
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SoSo CyberAlarm
00:55
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Don't have much to say,
Thought I'd call you anyway
And kiss your lips through cyberspace
But so what,
beh doo deh
You know what
beh doo deh de doo deh
Kiss your lips through...
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Our Art Ark
02:33
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Hark maiden.
May I build an ark with you?
Our art ark.
Hark maiden.
May I share my heart with you?
My heart, your art.
My heart's art
Our heart's art
Our art ark
Hark maiden
May I build an ark with you?
May I share my heart with you?
May I say it starts with you?
Art made in high regard for you.
Our art ark...
Art made in our hearts
Our art ark.
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Bilal Salaam New York
Bilal Salaam is an American independent experimental composer.
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