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(Damn this is actually happening)

With all these futures in contest
I’ve gotta pick one and forget the rest
I’m gonna take the quest, gonna break the past, gonna bring my best or I’m done man
When it’s too much ferry me from distress, can’t handle this domestic unrest
I’m gonna take the quest, gonna break the past, gonna fight for a better outcome

And with all our futures in contest
We’ve gotta make one that’s better than the rest
I’m gonna take the quest, gonna break the past, gonna bring my best or I’m done man
So our successors don’t forget to impress
We reverse the curse and remember we’re blessed
I’m gonna take the quest, gonna break the past, so run and tell the future we love them

Time
To clean
Up this mess
To err in a black sky and find dawn
To err in a black sky and find dawn

I’ve got something to tell you
You won’t be surprised
Done yearning for days ‘I’m alright’ and ‘I’m good’
Were not go-to lies

Gather your resources
And reject capital Pride
There is a war just waiting on the other side of the door
You’re not getting any sleep tonight

Disease deniers are out
We are plagued by their lies
(We are plague paralyzed)
Truths of woe we know confront the unknown,
discontent unsubscribes

America,
would you learn to love black lives in black skies?
How you steal black idea
But black signs will not stop black suicides

The battle lines are drawn
The opposition has just played its hand
I won’t be your pawn
My tactician’s mapped out a great plan
Heroes have arrived
To help kill the evils in your head
You won’t do this alone

Time
To clean
Up this mess
To err in a black sky and find dawn
To err in a black sky and find dawn

How did it feel to murder someone?
Hold him struggling under your knee
Or string him ‘pon a tree by Kennedy
How did it feel to watch him run
Ignore the pleas that they can’t breathe
A bullet in her sleep is killing me
(Easy as one two three)

Your reckoning bomb has arrived
(Would not let us compete)
We’re just returning the favor vilified
(You want us incomplete)
Don’t pretend like it was the first time
(Do you like what you see)
This unchecked hatred still survives

And it thrives and it thrives right in the back of your minds
Like black lies and it rides sanctions to sever our spines

The battle lines are drawn
The opposition has just played its hand
I won’t be your pawn
My tacticians have mapped out a great plan
The heroes have arrived
To help you quell the evil in your head
You won’t do this alone
You won’t do this alone

This is all for my past self who was lost
looking for the new world
that I could live in
(not just pass the time) as I am
I was the gift passed around, afraid
there would be no change
After all the pain had passed
I’ve become the hope we will overcome

Cus we won’t know
Until we’re there
Cus we won’t know
Until we’re there

Will our future pass the test
Or is it under arrest
I’m gonna take the quest, gonna break the past, gonna do my best to keep promise
When they try to take your breath
Scream it loud out of your chest
I’m gonna take the quest, gonna break the past, so we can have a future to love in

(Teeth are rattling in distress
Heart is beating out my chest
I’ve gone and made a mess, I’ve gone and made a mess, I’ve gone and made a mess, I have gone and-)

Nothing will ever stay the same
Our pain and sorrow won’t silence us this time

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from I Am To Err In a Black Sky & Find Dawn, released December 24, 2021

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