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Been to the Future
04:27
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Met a space traveller,
Looked like she’d lost track of time
She was moving fast, bent towards me in a straight line
I said, “you look familiar, have I seen you before?”
She filled my palm with ice and kicked me out the door
My feet, they faltered, I tumbled to the ground
Because the Earth was turning, I just fell without a sound
She led me through the trees ‘til we’d reached a giant fire
I held out my hand, but the ice, its time had expired
I was too parched and weak
But the traveler chose now to speak
She said…
I’ve been to the future
And we could have won
So don’t exit now ‘til all is said and done
Please don’t drop this ball around the sun
Please don’t drop this ball around the sun
Now
The light before us flared, she stared, I blocked my eyes
I fumbled for her hand, but then to my surprise
While standing by I learned I was now chosen
It’s now years ago, with the last water frozen
And I’ve been to the future
And we (could have) won
So don’t exit now ‘til all is said and done
Please don’t drop this ball around the sun
Please don’t drop this ball around the sun
Don’t give up now ‘til all is said and done. Don’t give up now ‘til all is said and done.
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“This issue is much bigger than just my disease.
When I first got sick, old friends started reaching out to me and I soon found myself a part of a cohort of women in their late 20s whose bodies were falling apart. What was striking was just how much trouble we were having being taken seriously. I learned of one woman with scleroderma, an autoimmune connective tissue disease, who was told for years that it was all in her head…another woman with ovarian cancer who for years was told it was just early menopause… a friend from college whose brain tumor was misdiagnosed for years as anxiety.”
- Jen Brea, TED Talk
“Like odd numbers in your underwear drawer, the pain in your brain stem is political mediocrity, is food poisoning, is slipping on ice with no one around, wind knocked out of you.
No sleep.
No sleep.
I swear to God, if that sun comes any closer, I’ll make sure it knows how much I used to love it.” - Leland Chazen
“I became angry and clear, and what is more threatening than a woman who is angry and filled with clarity?
and what is more threatening than a woman who is angry and filled with clarity?
and what is more threatening than a woman who is angry and filled with clarity?”
- Tara Hardy
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3. |
Dam Dam
03:02
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My neck, my neck is feelin’ fine
Since it’s been fine, it’s been some time
I filled with poison on the line
But now it’s gone through tears of brine
He asked me, girl why do you cry?
Your body’s fine, it’s in your mind
But I kept looking, what’d I find?
They ate the fruit, buried the rind
Where does the stem reach for the sun
When bent how is the drinking done
A river flows, and trickles down
But why did it not reach the sound?
Dam! Dam! Building up
I’m waiting with an empty cup
For 2 long years I’ve felt the squeeze
Now dam! Break it open bring it to my knees!
My neck, my neck was doin' fine
You forced it open so light would shine
But shade was thrown where demons dined
She was shielding me the whole damn time
Dam! Dam! River flow!
Tell me to stay, tell me to go
Stayed in my head, so you’d believe
But dam! Break it open, bring it to my knees!
Dam dam! Hold it in!
Tell me to sink, tell me to swim
Tell me to fight, tell me to freeze
Just dam, break it open, bring it to my knees
Dam dam! Hold it in!
Tell me to sink, tell me to swim
Tell me to fight, tell me to go
Just dam, break it open, bring it to my toes
Dam dam
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Creer
Mujer vienes a mí
esperando respuesta
Llorando por ayuda
Algo como de cáncer
Pero miro en ti
Busco invasores
Al lo mejor tu corazón
Es el verdadero traidor
Usted dice que se siente tocadoa
Afectada de todo
Pero lo que veo
un rasguño en su hombro
Juras que te cruzó
límites ya rotos
Pare que siguer jugando a si
Basado en las acciones
De lo que puedo ver
Estas exagerando
El mundo me parece bien
El fue un buen hombre
De una buena familia
Que él haría cosas malas
Es tan difícil de creer
Creer
Creer.
Mire por la esquina
No viene nadie
Ya abre la boca
Y toma para entumer te
Escucha el silencio
No hay nadie gritando
Si tus oídos te duelen
Chica, debes estar soñando
estas soñando
dijo "Todo lo que se mira
No es tan terrible
Deberías estar agradecida
Por todo lo que tienes
Eres una buena Mujer
Con una buena familia
Estas exagerando
Y es difícil de creer
Creer
Creer
Nunca te rindes
resulta que así es
Derotaste a un hombre
En su torno Con tu pasión
Por verdad y la redención
¿Cómo podemos
Como podemos devolverte?
Solo vigila a los reyes
Para que no te engañen
Creer, creer, creer,
Cre en mi.
"Believe Her" (English version) translation
Woman you come to me
Hoping for answers
Crying for help
From something that’s like cancer
But I look inside you
I search for invaders
Probably your own heart
Is the real traitor
You say that you feel touched
Affected all over
But all that i see
Is a scratch on your shoulder
You swear that he crossed you
Your boundaries are broken
Why not say no then
To games of red rover
Based on the actions
From what I can see
You're overreacting
The world's looking perfect to me
He was a good man
From a good family
That he would do bad things
Is so hard to believe
Believe
Look round the corner
There's nobody coming
Now open your mouth wide
And take this for numbing
Listen to silence
There's nobody screaming
If your ears are pounding
Girl you must be dreaming
He said “All that I'm seeing
Is just not that bad
You should be thankful
For all that you have
You are a good girl
With a good family
You're overreacting
And you're hard to believe
Believe
When I don't see
You never give up
Well turns out it happened
You took down a man on his throne
With your passion
For truth and redemption
How can we repay you?
Just keep an eye on kings
So they don’t play you
And believe
believe
believe
believe me
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5. |
Believe Her Interlude
01:54
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Woman you come to me
Hoping for answers
Crying for help
From something that’s like cancer
But I look inside you
I search for invaders
Probably your own heart
Is the real traitor
He was a good man
From a good family
That he would do bad things
Is so hard to believe
Believe
You never give up
Well turns out it happened
You took down a man on his throne
With your passion
For truth and redemption
How can we repay you?
Just keep an eye on kings
So they don’t play you
And believe
believe
believe
believe me
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“I came together with patients from around the world and we started to fight…we have filled the void with something wonderful.” Jen Brea, TED Talk
“The most powerful weapon is not a tank.
It’s not a military weapon at all.
It’s human one.
It’s the capacity and the willingness of human beings to disobey, and to defy, and to refuse to cooperate with injustice and oppression.” - Jamila Raqib, TED Talk
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7. |
Disobey
05:02
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We should have expected this to happen somehow
I guess the question is: what do we do now?
Well what have the lovers who held up the struggle so long before us done?
What have the others, our sisters and brothers, done to make sure love won?
They had a mission, they had a vision, they kept their eyes on the prize
If that is lost and the means become ends then the people’s permission dies.
If they could speak now, whisper in our ear, as we face today
I can’t imagine but if I imagined, I still believe they’d say:
Go forth in love
Show em what you got
Offer a new way
Go shake things up
Make it look fun
If he orders hate, disobey
Remember a chair is only as sturdy as one of four legs that hold
And an office and cabinet only so strong until all the walls they fold
You’ve got the power, don’t play by their games, use your own better rules
They may have money, tanks and tall towers but we’ve still got stronger tools
Go, now’s the time
Convict the crime
Expose greed in the light of day
Go shake things up
We’ve had enough
When he orders shoot, disobey
When he orders hate, disobey
Love is the only way
Love
Love is the only way
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Looked for your face
In a pale hospital ward
All I saw was grace
Posted on an announcement board
I saw the string
Pinned from one cork to another
I heard phones ring
But I missed calls from my mother
The focus group
Cried what are we doing here?
We’re in a feedback loop
And I can’t seem to break this mirror
But what if something
Was beating from the other side?
Rooting for loving
To surface from the place it hides?
I don’t think that we are alone (as much as we think, no)
I don’t think that there’s no hope
If I know one thing
It’s that we don’t know much at all
You post your labels
And over time I watch them fall
I look for faces
But maybe I should look for lines
Beyond horizons
One-sided glass’s other side
I don’t think that we are alone (as much as we think, no)
I don’t think that there’s no hope (as much as we think, no)
I don’t think that we are alone (as much as we think, no)
I don’t think that there’s no hope
But I don’t know
I don’t know
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9. |
New Year
04:13
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Promise me you’ll hold on
Promise me you’ll try
Cause it’s too crushing sitting here
Stuck on the sidelines
While i cannot do many things
At least I’ll say i tried
To shout through fences, over walls
While my hands are tied, warning:
They will come at you with all they’ve got
Expect the worst you’ve ever seen
But we can change things more than we thought
And i still dare to dream
of a new year
What’s to come?
In a new year
What will we have done?
In a new year
What will we say?
It’s time for a change
Well i’m here
To cheer you on
In the new year
Til fear is gone
In the new year
So please stay in game
stay
stay in the game
I know it’s easier to turn away
Wouldn’t blame you if you do
But on the other side of games you play
I’ve got a feeling you
Will stay
In the new year
What’s to come?
In a new year
What will we have done?
In a new year
What will we say?
It’s time for a change
Well i’m here
To cheer you on
In the new year
Til fear is gone
In the new year
So please stay in game
stay
Promise me you’ll hold on
Promise me you’ll try
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10. |
Moored
03:46
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That didn’t feel good, no not good at all
Pushing you out the door when I hit the wall
But while I’m taking and I just wanna live
I don’t know what to do, what do I have to give?
You are a treasure, the shiniest I’ve held
I guess my fingers couldn’t help but swell
They tremble while I have visions of your fall
I guess that’s why I kneel, making myself small
Stationary
Do not write me
‘cause
Being with you is like living on an island,
And being given my boat to ride
Unable to row, oh the places you could go
But you stay moored by my side
Being with you is like being given a magic carpet
While being chained to the ground
And having to watch while instead of taking off
You choose to wrap around me
Me
Even though you tell me
Here you’re happy
Being with you is like living on an island,
And being given my boat to ride
Unable to row, oh the places you could go
But you stay moored by my side
Being with you is like being lost for two
But rescued by your sound
Sometimes I hide, but I hope you know inside
I am so glad that you found me
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No is not enough to make a change
What are we saying yes to?
Do we want more of the same?
Or do we want a better truth
They’re building castles in the sand
On the backs of people in the sun
Before the sea swallows the land
We’ll build a shelter strong for everyone
No is not enough
A wall won’t open pathways
To get the world we want
Let’s carve a road to better days
With what we do want
What we do need
There’s a better way just waiting
If they could only see
what we do want, what we do, what we do
Stop is not the only sound
A red light can’t change everything
If we want to turn around
We have to find the green light blinking
No is not enough
Throwing stones won’t block a landslide
To get the world we want
Let’s say yes to greener sides
Porochista Khakpour: “I wanna live in a world where we can just have the basic things we deserve like clean air, clean water, safe spaces.”
Jessica Slice: “I want to live in a world where my son can feel safe.”
Afrose Fatima Ahmed: “I wanna live in a world where the earth is revered.”
Porochista Khakpour: “I wanna live in a world where we can live in harmony with our neighbors and acknowledge those who the land belongs to, who were here way before us.”
Bekah Fly: “I want the world to be a welcoming place for you. I want the world to be a welcoming place for me. I want us to be happy.”
Now
No is not enough
Let’s build the world we want.
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12. |
Sickness Unto Death
04:35
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Old man in a rocking chair
You wake up, you've been living alone
After all these years
Surrounded by these shards of mirrors
And how'd it get so quiet here?
You wonder, "Where did everyone go?"
You tried so hard to make people remember you for something you were not
And if they so remember you then something else will certainly get forgotten
Life is for the living
I've heard tell that it is why we are young
In the morning sun
You take every year as it comes
But when your life is over
All those years fold up like an accordion
They collapse just like a broken lung
Now I've only got one organ left and this old bag of bones
It is failing me
I try to tell people that I'm dying only they don't believe me
They say, "We're all dying," that we're all dying
But if you are dying, why aren't you scared?
Why aren't you scared like i'm scared?
I read somewhere that when you face eternity, you'll face it alone
Not matter what you thought or what you had or you had not
Unless you put yourself in God
But tell me, God, oh where did you go?
Every bitter night into an empty room, I plead my case
Every night I pray that in the morning when I wake
I'll be in a familiar place and I'll find that I'm recovered and I'm sane
And I'll remember everything
I'll remember what I was like before that bug bit me
And when I have my childhood back
I'll tear every page out of my book
And place them in an urn
And strike a match and watch them burn
Then I'll hold the front cover
Against the back cover and look
You'll see
Eternity will smile on me
(Believe me)
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“Sensitive People:
the skin in its ephemeral softness
the incandescence that allows the candle flame through
is a wild power.
This body can bottle beauty
and pour the elixir of love into the throats of the thirsty.
Sensitivity is a sweetness, a drop of liquid gold on the tongue.”
Afrose Fatima Ahmed
“We must never be ashamed. Despite subtle messages to the contrary,
we deserve the best.”
Jessica Slice
“Inocente:
Mi madre mia ella es buena, mujer hermosa y guerrera
Inocente come la luz de la manacer
Fosforose como el sol,
quemadita junta la flor
Destruyendo su ser para crecer de nuevo
como llegua un campo
con el sonido de un wapango
comparte de se su vida,
mientras los de mas se burlan de ella
Mi madre mia ella es buena, mujer hermosa y guerrera
Inocente come la luz de la manacer
“
- Luz Elena Mendoza
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14. |
Forgot to Mention
04:45
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Ah
In the morning
A light will be shining
Finally with timing
They’ll have time for you
No more wastin
Your heart will glisten
Finally they’ll listen
To your point of view
We’ll grab their attention
The things that they forgot to mention
The things we already know
Look girl now, you made em
Reconnect with things they were estranged from
The sun and earth - we told them so
In the morning
With patience we’ll be free now
This is a patient’s dream now
They’re coming through
It may be years
Before our cries reach the right ears
But when they do, I will cry for you
The day we
Get recognition
And don’t need any man’s permission
We’ll know just what to do
Can you feel it? No more drownin
I’m shouting high above the mountains
I feel it, I’m healin too
Ah
In the morning
A light will be shining
Finally with timing
They’ll have time for you
It may be years
Before our cries reach the right ears
But when they do, I will cry for you
The day we
Get recognition
And don’t need any man’s permission
We’ll know just what to do
Can you feel it? No more drownin
I’m shouting high above the mountains
I feel it, I’m healing too
Ah.
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KPH & The Canary Collective Seattle, Washington
KPH (Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm) is a singer who writes songs in hopes of helping heal the harms of the humans on this planet with harmony.
Fund my medical treatment monthly: patreon.com/kph
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