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DREW:
speak to me!
i'm a person, speak to me
can't you at least
give me that courtesy?
consistently failing your standards of beauty
arbitrarily denied my humanity
i just need to pee
i don't mean to freak
it's just that leaving the house
is scary enough for me
what i need is a chance to breathe
but it's hard to think clearly
in the grip of poverty
WILL:
you dream of division where it doesn't exist
at the edges of breath, letting go of disposition
conditioned to ignore individual chemistries
too scattered to ever feel aligned
with any notions of flesh
[I wrote this song about being told by a business where I was doing low-wage retail work--it was indeed a Walmart--that I could no longer use the bathroom in their store because customers were complaining about seeing me in there. The simultaneous humiliation of being pushed into the margins of the economy and treated like I'm unfit to use basic facilities are pretty much a daily experience for most working-class trans women, and so far I've been no exception. --Drew]
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DREW:
do you really have that much invested in believing
everything is perfect just the way it is?
ignore problems within your
homogenous social group
so you can tell yourself
you're changing the world
which somehow still remains the same
defend your complacency with your life
how punk rock is that?
WILL:
"mission accomplished" mentality
toxic normative apathy
rework these imbalances
start with yourself, then flood all else
arrogance dries out the well
[Written after an argument in which I defended the necessity of safer spaces within DIY culture and someone told me that such safety should already be implied due to punk's progressive politics--which is much easier to assume when you're a cis white dude. Ask anyone in the scene who isn't one, they'll tell you. --Drew]
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Impulsive Semantics
03:23
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WILL:
privileged rhetoric
ignorance perpetuated
continued offenses congeal into malign
some never stop to think
not all language is at their disposal
oppression is packaged and sold
as humor from the internet and television
watch your tongue
it licks the filthy feet of a white america
vernacular has suffered greatly
in such an era of such shameless exceptionalism
DREW:
screaming hurtful words into the faces of the downtrodden
heaping abuse on shoulders with the least strength to bear them
is it your comfortable life that leaves you so numb
to the suffering of others?
watch your tongue
your words arm the guns at the heads of the oppressed
[This song is about appropriative use of AAVE by white people on social media and in film and television. Sentiments coated in "irony" are just as racist as anything else. - Will]
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