Non-Metaphorical Decolonization

by Mount Eerie

From the album: Night Palace

Track 17 of 26 on Night Palace (2024).

Duration: 04:16

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Lyrics for Non-Metaphorical Decolonization

The place I live has a name But there's another one, older Emerging through the mist I saw where I was as it was Before we called it anything Now we live in the wreckage of a colonizing force Whose racist poison still flows So scared of a moment of discomfort now We turn away from the obvious All we have is stolen and can't be owned This "America", the old idea I want it to die Non-metaphorical decolonization Beneath the one sky Let this old world shatter And transform Allegiance to nothing at all But the burning present moment I cut the cord connecting then and now And start again I show the kid how to give up everything

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  2. Huge Fire
  3. Breaths
  4. Swallowed Alive
  5. My Canopy
  6. Broom of Wind
  7. I Walk
  8. (soft air)
  9. Empty Paper Towel Roll
  10. Wind & Fog
  11. Wind & Fog, Pt. 2
  12. Blurred World
  13. I Heard Whales (I Think)
  14. I Saw Another Bird
  15. I Spoke With A Fish
  16. Myths Come True
  17. Non-Metaphorical Decolonization
  18. November Rain
  19. Co-Owner of Trees
  20. Myths Come True, Pt. 2
  21. & Sun
  22. Writing Poems
  23. the Gleam, Pt. 3
  24. Stone Woman Gives Birth To A Child At Night
  25. Demolition
  26. I Need New Eyes