Silently, I bought a liar's dream
Deep waters for stars
Serenity for success
Believing a goal is there to be reached
A life relieved of circumstance

Cheating myself for an extra moment of sleep
I paved my roads
But they lead only to places I hate
I cheated myself for a second of memory
For the good things they said that come
To those who wait

But they took our faces
They changed our names
They've mistaken our wishes for long, nameless hours
They burned our pages
& corrupted our songs
On graves they once dug, now they lay flowers

Saying prayers to concrete heavens
But we know that angels don't live here anymore
& the limit must be the limitless sky
Of feelings that we so eagerly ignore

Since they reshaped our faces
& cloned our hearts
Then given back all that we've left to die
Mother, they've taken away our childhood
But they will never take us alive

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We're not in this together
& truth be told we never were
Our history is of dissent
Our future – one side's voice unheard
La Batalla de Girón
– A wave of fire undeterred
We've become tomorrow's spokesmen
Unleashed our tongue upon the world

We're never in this together
Your war is one of treachery
Unending plunder of our home
For every Empire's century
Our war is fought when there's no more
To choose but sheer necessity
The once subdued & dispossessed
No hope. No fear. No property

'cause we are not in this together
& all curtains are bound to fall
Once our longest march draws near
The last of powers to dissolve

As we watch all Suns set
On the crowns of the few
The hands of the oppressors
Transparent yet unseen
As we walk down every street
Dancing to the tune
The glorious creak
of the decaying capitalist machine

We'll never be in it together
It's you or us, no in between
It's earth or ash, it's life or death
It's all or none, & we will win

05/11/20
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