Shine On

[00:21.49] Been a flower in bloom
[00:23.84] Be a seed again soon
[00:26.22] You know love be the food
[00:28.45] Give me faith give me room
[00:30.20] I will bloom again
[00:32.68] Pain illuminates
[00:34.57] I will shine on
[00:38.73] I was made to shine on
[00:40.44] I'm asleep in my enemy's dream
[00:42.52] Climbing monolithic pyramid schemes
[00:45.02] Singing life isn't quite as it seems
[00:47.39] Would this flesh pass the test if I pinched it and screamed?
[00:49.72] I see a white dove caught on the wire
[00:52.04] I see her branches on the funeral pyre
[00:54.48] I stole the ashes from the mouth of the fire
[00:56.96] Built my bricks out of this and I carried them higher
[00:59.22] On and on as the machine droned
[01:01.82] As the masters of war traded blood for gold
[01:04.08] Prescribed beauty to restore my soul
[01:06.50] So I cut diamonds from the stones and i swallowed them whole
[01:08.90] Washed them down with the dirt and the grime
[01:11.04] I mined for days in symbols and signs
[01:13.46] Cried with the colonised child of my bloodline
[01:16.06] About the tale of the earth and the last paradigm
[01:18.80] Been a flower in bloom
[01:21.22] Be a seed again soon
[01:23.69] You know love be the food
[01:25.98] Give me faith give me room
[01:27.77] I will bloom again
[01:29.83] Pain illuminates
[01:31.84] I will shine on
[01:36.34] I was made to shine on
[01:37.88] I saw that trauma was a coin with two sides
[01:40.15] That could open up portals in the subjects mind
[01:42.39] And that the diamond was a jagged pill
[01:44.79] That the thrill of the beauty was conjoined with the ills
[01:47.13] I spilled tears for the cage that we built
[01:49.66] And all the resignation all the visions it killed
[01:52.00] But that's the seed that oppression plants
[01:54.48] When we believe these sycophants
[01:56.78] I saw the strings of the devils dance
[01:59.01] Bout every man for his own advance
[02:01.48] Held the mirror and the shadow cast
[02:04.00] I sent my dream to the prophets past
[02:06.25] There with the cards, falling fast
[02:08.84] 13 hearts, on the mast
[02:11.26] And the charts, unsurpassed
[02:13.77] I fell hard and I asked
[02:16.57] Been a flower in bloom
[02:18.84] Be a seed again soon
[02:21.37] You know love be the food
[02:23.67] Give me faith, give me room
[02:25.28] I will bloom again
[02:27.63] Pain illuminates
[02:29.44] I will shine on
[02:33.68] I was made to shine on
[02:35.96] And it starts to bleed, it starts to grow
[02:40.62] It starts with me, it starts with no
[02:45.58] To not turn cold, to not be owned
[02:50.63] I will not fold
[02:55.06] Steady as the workers, steady as the rain
[02:57.21] Steady as the serving, steady as they came
[02:59.68] Steady as the turning Earth, disturbed with the
[03:01.94] Factories churning, dearth of enjoinment
[03:04.37] Citizens yearning, dissidents stirring
[03:06.87] Blurring the visions of the civilised vermin
[03:09.11] Power subverted, struggles converging
[03:11.70] Merged with the flame of a revolution burning
[03:14.84] Not feeling powerless
[03:15.92] In the face of wickedness
[03:17.18] Political cowardice
[03:18.33] Taking care of business
[03:19.53] When they should to empower us
[03:20.65] Fronting for the villainous
[03:21.84] Let the rich devour us
[03:23.39] And were so dangerous
[03:24.49] They could be labour-less
[03:25.79] So they're containing us
[03:26.96] Their culture's flavourless
[03:28.16] We're the antithesis
[03:29.24] We could be limitless
[03:30.45] We could be growing on the vines in the vividness
[03:34.44] Been a flower in bloom
[03:36.33] Be a seed again soon
[03:38.87] You know love be the food
[03:40.88] Give me room
[03:42.40] I will bloom again
[03:44.34] Pain illuminates
[03:46.31] I will shine on
[03:50.67] I was made to shine on
[03:53.16] Flute solo
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