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Alive Under The Sun

from Land of the Lotus Eaters by hermitofthewoods

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There are seven billion ways to live, chose one, and let the sum of all parts be called people of the sun. Everyone is different as much as they are the same, and everyone tries to survive in the same game. We need to eat, we need a place to sleep, we need warmth in the winter, shoes for our feet. We need love, but we settle for substitutes. The jazz machine will pound away forever to produce the music that will soothe the savage beast. Tame the wild eyes to pacify what lies beneath while the lies upon the surface divide us into being conquered. The longer we sleep, the longer they are growing stronger. That hunger for joy that’s inside us is shared and we decide to deny it to some ‘cause we’re scared. But we’re all people, alive under the sun. There are seven billion ways to live, choose one. We live in divisions and give in to limits on difference. Religion. Victims of fiction. The diminishing vision of Conservatism. Interpreting meaning from words that were written when some were forbidden their very existence, unable to speak and of little interest. Those are the rules that are used against us. Those are the tools that police the defenseless. End this. Find a design aligning the one with the ninety nine. It’s time. Implied divisions are lies, they’re meant to disguise the committing of crimes. But we are not blind. We are alive. We are survivors with ties that bind. Marginalized but the sun will rise and we will rise too if we open our eyes and see that the world created for us makes it too easy for them to ignore us. And so they do.

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from Land of the Lotus Eaters, released May 14, 2013
From Land of the Lotus Eaters, released 14 May 2013

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Halifax-based rapper, producer, musician and hip hop activist. Keep rap weird.

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