With all the time spent / where’s the time went / can’t even recollect the moments / woe is me and separate by 6 degrees of hate / the government’ll lock us in / to plant the maggots of constraint / taint the world we see to keep us following / and wallowing in the depths of why / lie to me my fellow man, my brother / why we trained to fight each other / through economic excess / so x exactly marks the spot to execute this exodus / exerted like an exorcist so cleanse your spirit with your individuality / cuz segregating the Calvary over such technicalities and false religious maladies is cowardly / the we sing this hymn like voices in the wind gathering /
And I stand / sick of this wickedest twisted wasteland / caught up in the systematic peer pressure of living day to day / bartered mercy unearthly when Mother Nature’s beauty been raped by Father Time Span / and I can’t see through profit and loss / the price to right this wrong of fear pops this apocalypse off / the time has never been better for standing / for all the stars in a seamlessly disseminated sky, one broods in wait of manufactured reprimanding / abandoning avenues of concrete for the freedom of passion / ask yourself this / are you really feeling like you’re able to grow when ignorance is truly bliss / and the status quo don’t know what it is that makes you you / cuz they too busy implanting the lies that they’ve gotten too used to / and it’s not in me to be still / cuz I’ll be killed for desecrating the monuments that we’ve built for unexploded ordinances /
In contrast to Matt Embree's previous projects (which were more guitar-focused or lyrical), his collaboration with French songwriter Lisa Papineau is laid-back and groovy--a Sunday afternoon that constrasts the frenetic hustle and bustle of the last Rx Bandits record. Eric Davies
The Chicago rapper uses jazz as his template for a love letter to black and brown intentionality & worldwide forms of resistance. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 19, 2017