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Just An Echo
05:14
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Strap in, do we have your attention!?
Repudiate your preconceptions!
We speak from the edge of the sky, we were born in a palace, built from the lives of those that were stepped on to raise us on high
We were given a stage and a mic!
Let's use it right
I have the utmost privilege
Of speaking to you today
Ladies and gentlemen,
and honoured guests preferring neither way
We just echo
The voice of those
That aren't being heard
Let's raise them up
Insisting freedom from fault
And laying blame on the past
It's our burden to mend
If this world is to last
Once more, do we have your attention?
*gibberish noises*
One thing we forgot to mention...
This is just one step of a long long road
We were given a stage and a mic
We call you all to join the fight
My most enraptured listeners
There's simply too much to say
A world of complex nuance
Underlies all subjects of the day
We just echo
The voice of those
That aren't being heard
Let's raise them up
Insisting freedom from fault
Arrives us nowhere fast
We must rally the cause
To avert mistakes of the past
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2. |
Forming Alliances
06:54
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Leave this guilt, it has no place
Here missteps we must embrace
Humbly learn from hard fought lives
Undermine the structures that oppress
Reclaim this space for voices to express
We seek to be a part of the cause
Modest in knowledge of our gifted birth
We’ve come not to waste your time
For your liberation is bound up with mine!
So we shall listen, and you may speak your mind to us,
through us to those who do not
May we amplify and not eclipse
We are the moon that reflects the sun
Only shining when there is none
Till return of the light of day
We strive for alliance
Knowing acts outweigh our words
Though privilege can free us
We maintain
A vigilance in all our efforts
For freedom must be all or nothing
Our intent has no place
Our impact leaves its trace
What changes we could make
Were we to all awake
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Reactivist
05:05
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Outcry fills my gaze
Leading me astray
Status quo holds fast
Progress-drowning grasp
I fear the tides of change
My ego rearranged
What if granting rights
Precedes the loss of mine?
Can’t see the oxygen I breathe
Debating my failing
Derailing
I stand above now how can I stand back?
To rock the boat with empathy I lack?
Struggle with the straw-man in my head
Disputes long dead
A worldview which infers
With stereotypes and slurs
“Not all of us are human”
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4. |
Injustice System
04:45
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Injustice is all around me
Systemic violation, all surrounding
Our culture dehumanizing
The scope of abuse is just paralyzing
Erasure in violence and words
Erased from the face of the Earth
Oppressed in the name of the law
This “civilization” is flawed
“Don’t shoot!”
They can’t breathe!
Dark truth
Oh when, tell me when will we see?
Invisible, told not to exist
Despicable, the way we’ve come to point the gun,
At anyone we don’t understand
It’s time to overthrow, this status quo,
(And make a stand!)
Injustice is all around me
Reach out and deconstruct all the boundaries
For people our world’s destroying
Inaction is not our choice!
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Not Your Fault
07:11
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6. |
Destroy To Rebuild!
05:48
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7. |
Teach The Young
04:00
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Complacency, Our Foe
07:26
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What if all we knew was wrong?
Raised to believe violence was the norm
Question all reactions ingrained
Ignored, the cycle self-perpetuates
Make conscious action to change
Recognize the power of words
To shape the perceptions we hold
And find a better way!
If we hope to revolutionize
We must dismantle all comforting lies
Supremacy must fall beside the way
Denial gets us nowhere. One day
maybe we can say our work is done
Until that day we must press ever on
Inequity may never disappear
Do not dishearten faced with the sheer
Magnitude of all that’s left to solve
Stay dedicated, slowly minds evolve
If you have heard me out,
Know ideas must unfold
Into acts which form the norm.
Complacency, our foe
I make conscious action to change
I recognize the power of words
Those who can’t be bothered to aid
Can stay out of the way!
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9. |
Listen Up!
06:20
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I just echo
These borrowed words
These borrowed words
Have come from those whose lives
I speak of
Are you listening
To them and not just me?
Listen up!
Follow guidance
From those silenced
Genders and sexualities non-conforming
From race to ability
Intersectionality
Speaking from authority
Of lived experience
Take their lead
They’ll show us how to change the world
Let’s lighten up the load
The burden carried all these years from young to old
We strive for equity
Social boundaries broken down can set us all free
Free, free
We could be, all set free
We could be, all set free
Listen up, listen up
Take this fight, Make this right
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Sleeping In Traffic Edmonton, Alberta
Sleeping In Traffic is a four-piece progressive band plotting a course for sounds uncharted. It is an amalgamation of artistic aspirations and inspirations, held together by a code of limitless creativity, and unbound in sonic curiosity.
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