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Mississippi Goddam

by Blacker Face

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1.
Trap 03:40
I'm lost so what hurt mode that's rough you sad get tough you mad step up look I'm feeling bad don't think I did enough feeling like a fool cause I can't stand up battered body yeaaaa that sucks how can you avoid your mind how many how many how many how many tell me how many fucking shots whatever whatever whatever whatever doesn't mean I'm not scared, doesn't mean I don't care, doesn't mean I don't want to cope. Ain't got a choice what killed me that night, I guess for another shot whatever will suffice. Scroll, scroll, scroll on. You woke and clever tell me the best approach Logical when I'm bout to choke gonna chop the hands stay round my throat can't afford to cope while this asshole wants me to watch him mope and say that he ain't a joke while he constantly sucking on my soul this shit just ain't comical to me whatever whatever whatever whatever whatever's clever baby Ain't got no choice but I'm thinking while I'm shaking that the sky is clearer ahead and the shit fews yours, mine, ours while rise again.
2.
Gawd Damn 02:08
Why can't I understand that I gotta let go that the pain won't dissapate until I let it go missing you got me slipping and I wanna just fall but the heartaches, soul breaks, and transitional pain got me on my knees screaming god damn please help me. Why you popup in my mind when I turn off the lights creeping up at night and I wanna say naw missing you got me slipping and I wanna just fall but the heartaches, soul breaks, and transitional pain Got me on my knees screaming god Got me on my knees screaming god damn Got me on my knees screaming god damn please Got me on my knees screaming god damn please help Got me on my knees screaming god damn please help me.
3.
Howl 03:29
Breaking on promises, banking on pain. Using our hope to keep us in chains, bow down and pray for better days. Asking for change in the moist dignified of ways. Shellshock folks, I think I want to give violence a chance, but I feel so bad. Can’t fight fire with fire, but I’m tryna weaponize water and use it on the white flame. I feel so bad, but I wanna give violence a chance But I feel so bad Yea I feel so bad Yea I feel so Closed everyday except xmas Spin round smile weeping Flesh rots and I'm wreakin Have nots tally keeping Who have I wronged what's wrong with me? Forced to be a villain when I gotta be My hands are tired and I can't relax my hands arms are tied I ain't falling back There are plenty of people that have died nonviolently on their knees I'm begging that you see me as I scream I ain't going quietly I'm begging that you see me as I scream The kings been lying nonviolently dead damn near 50 years, 50 years Our generals should be taken out back and asked What the fuck is taking so long Man I don't know, maybe shot Or taken to an ever growing desert I dont know But I want to give violence a chance And I can't feel bad I need to give violence a chance And I can't feel bad I have to give violence a chance And I won't feel bad I won't feel bad No I don't feel bad I won't feel bad Mama stop saying we free Mama stop saying we free Mama strikes back you see Mama stop saying we free Mama stop saying we free Mama strikes back for me Mama stop saying we free Mama stop saying we free Mama strikes back you see Mama stop saying we free Mama stop saying we free
4.
Punk Song 01:12
Wack single fad these days kids are crazy eat, eat your pills Klonopin might save me I miss health I miss being on my mother's plan I wish I could still afford for someone to explain to me why I'm still so mad why I'm still so mad why am I so mad why am I so mad dope they say it's wack, but It means cool words are crazy they mean nothing without context you hip fool. kale eat some kale cause it's trendy me I like chard cause I'm way hipper than thee hip, hip, hip, hep,hep, hep help why I'm still so mad why I'm still so mad why am I so mad why am I so mad
5.
I-sak song 03:08
Ask if you’re ok Young blood seen better days Fall Ask why you’re crying they say you’re lying fall down and crawl away we’ve not done anything fall down and crawl away why make the mistake what’s so maddening it’s all the same thing, I’ve been here before crawling from my lies why choose anything why make the mistake just pick nothing just be nothing Right now they’re poking But soon hands start choking fall down and crawl away we’ve not done anything fall down and crawl away why make the mistake
6.
Badu 03:05
Cans on my floor Friends in my heart My mama kept wishin I'd go so far Tickle in my throat Throw out a cigarette The next time I fall down that'll be it Got anger for days In not an angsty way I'll only run away if I can run with me And I'll only die young if I choose to stop surviving They got the power They drop the bodies They take the fathers They blame the mothers They got words, the money, the platforms They made the system Theytheythey I wish I knew they Keeping myself outta trouble a lil while longer Till I figure out howta make the right fuckers burn Welcoming all the they'd to my next pig roast all you hearty vegans Please eat round the cuffs We got some numbers We got some anger We got some hope We got some loss We got some years We got some lifers We got the blame We dealin with the same ole shit Shit,shit,shit I had a reaction I often question my lack of action Can't remember the last time I had a positive interaction While dealin with the folks that wanna change this worlds direction The only ones getting any traction I don't think I'm distracted Think sometimes I can't claw out my sadness And I get stuck in the muck Calcified, and waiting for my extraction They got the power We are the bombs They getta shaken We make em afraid to leave their homes This divisive language might lead to awkward conversations making folks uncomfortable is how change is generated Keeping myself outta trouble a lil while longer Till I figure out howta make the right fuckers burn Welcoming all the they'd to my next pig roast all you hearty vegans Please eat round the cuffs
7.
Riot Grrlz 03:32
ooh fuck x 4 I wanna I wanna I wanna i wanna fuck I'm ya pretty girl, I'm ya I'm ya pretty girl I'm queen guess what fuckerz I'm mean paint me? who the fuck are you painting me pink It's a riot it's a riot it's a riot gurl no more parties for the quite gurl I'm privileged. I'm on top. Don't know what it means to stop. I'm at the bottom I'll break your hand. I'm a feminist kill a man. Ooh fuck ooh fuck Black power made me free, grunge bullshit showed me how not to be started from the bottom just to eat at the top. I'm naked and I won't stop white cunts are people too black cunts are here to use white cunts are people too black cunts are here to use? white cunts are people to black cunts are not for you I'm mad at my daddy, I'm mad at my daddy, I'm mad at my daddy cause he wants me to be something I can't be. White girls revive us, white girls will save us White girls revive us, white girls will save us
8.
Short Stick 04:39
Mercy is a dated thing yea you're singing a very old tune But you've yet to show me what shouldn't already be mine I'm finally ready to give my body away done took the right steps in this battered brown thing can't speak for us all, and I mustn't try You've got the right to be violent when faced with brutality you angsty takin fucker thinking you got the short stick of everything You've got the right to be violent when faced with brutality They laugh at our hope while we choke on our forced gods rope They smile at our pain while thanking their god for the silencing choke you angsty takin fucker thinking you got the short stick of everything You've got the right to be violent when faced with brutality I'd rather burn right now, then stay down on my knees you took this innocent child, and put her in front of a speeding train heard you were clipping wings come and take a chance with me you've been acting carelessly don't say it's about mercy Cause I will knock you down for I let you take another like me.
9.
8-cube 04:26
I'm drivin straight thru yer life, so I can get to work on time. I'm makin nickels an dimes-- far less than the cost of this whole damn ride. Scuse me mister? FUCK OUT MY WAY Scuse me mister? FUCK OUT MY WAY I'm drivin stright thru yer life. Just a joy ride, no reason why. Scuse me mister? FUCK OUT MY WAY Scuse me mister? Where'd I park and how'd I put it there? There I am, and here I am in no time. Sudden stop, it must've been. Stumbled home for sleep, hobbled back to busted home. That's a funny place to park a car: middle lane, on the highway. Fire fusing flesh to chrome bone... ...brand new body, brand new home. ...like the creatures speeding by. Ask them what it's like? I know they can't hear.
10.
Izerack 05:39
Ask do you like flowers pressed into pages crumbling as they die Memories to be read, one's soon to forget for a new life Show me something brown that people won't fight Give me a thing to love so I can tragically die It's time to help me figure me out It's time to give me more hope and less doubt All the pretty things to behold All the beautiful people being bought and sold Leave me here so I can collect dust I'm done eating now, time to shrivel and die I'd like to cut my tongue out, I want to sew my mouth up No more thinking these thoughts are getting anywhere You said you are done forgiving, no more time for giving I'd like to get at someone just as fucked up as me Maybe we can punch each other in the same place Will you be more? I don't want another prayer to say I won't touch precious things Cancel my own body Don't take, don't touch Can't be my own body All the people the smile with broken mouths Don't take, don't touch My body That smile will show me less doubt Can't be my own body

about

The odds were stacked against us, in completing this album. We were booking our Summer 2017 tour, looking for a vehicle with which to do the tour, still gigging regularly, working on other large-scale arts projects and events, struggling with legal and mental health crises, and on, and on, and… and all of that was down to the wire and up to the last day, as much as trying to finish this infernal thing was, in one night of live recording, and one night of punch-ins for vocals and strings.

I don’t know if it’s good, or even if it’s done. But I guess it depends on what your definition of what the word “it” is, hehuehue. The pieces herein are not done, they are two years’ worth of maneuvers that we and our lovely engineer have attempted to present as legibly as possible, and in the fashion that we would most like to present them (i.e. the way that shows you that we frickin shred). We will present them again in the future, in different spaces, with some alteration, purposeful and accidental. The album, necessarily, is done. It’s right here.

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released August 6, 2017

Recorded by Bert at 2040

Isaac Nicholas - Guitar, backup vocals, face
Jolene w/e - Vocals, backup vocals, blackest face
Louis Clark - Keys, backup vocals, face
Noah Jones - Drums, backup vocals, face
P.T. Bell - Bass, backup vocals, blackish face

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