Many Worlds

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Carter Hays

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Here we go
I peer out through the window glass dust clouds looming
Once humus; and we were once human
Consuming just to celebrate our fortunate selves
Now we have cultivated perfectly our overripe hell
Well, in like 2056 we might cross the river styx
While this EP was released when we were sick
As the gulf stream vanished in dreams of white reefs
Managed the Amazon to savannah, not planning
It would damn Greenland to release its ice sheets
Before C4 bowed to the power of 4C
And now the eighth generation is taking the front seat
Wishful thinkers
Too busy neuralinking with others sharing opinions
To see through the usual business of scientific fiction
In my lifetime we justify planetary addictions
To postpone collective imminent decisions
Till the options dry up
Like the river water, can't even take a dip now
You and me will stare out into the abyss then sit down
And listen cause you gotta start now to get out of this bind
Realize that all life's not your bitch now

I see it see it repeating, I see it see it repeating, I see it see it repeating, I see it see it
I see it see it repeating, I see it see it repeating, I see it see it repeating, I see it see it
I see it see it repeating, I see it see it repeating, I see it see it repeating, I see it see it
I see it see it repeating, I see it see it repeating, I see it

How we parrot the broken logic of parents
Inherit a shattered earth but the GDP is apparently
Growing enough to offset the insanity
Of edging on the fucking collapse of all humanity
Absolute calamity
Taps the root of sick mindsets centered on vanity
Ats the nations axing the world and acting handsomely
Absent minded, the future's abstract the past the only map to find it
Our roots are intact, reach back through our first contact
From a ship's deck, people speak to trees, no context
Must be the devil himself, prepare for combat, don't hold back
Flash forward in time and we've divided lines, you leave or die and
Leave a way of life behind em, made illegal all your songs
You read along to ours or we recruit police to find you
If we'd left behind this genocide we'd recognize it
Yet we teach our children in school systems this land was idle
To erase blame our idols incited a new age of anthropocene
Infighting continues today, from
When we wiped the land of bison and lions and tree giants
Now we trust this same system to save us from climate crisis
When many worlds collide, who will remain
The side with everything to lose or nothing left to gain
Or neither
In this system I was raised
Eyes covered in shade, dust brushed away
Now my sweet tooth has caved after years of lemonade
Heat of summer woke cicadas made to mark the decades
And it's boiled over, killing with CO2 like shaking baby with the soda
Coral reefs like megacities bleached so hold the photos
Above flood water in boats fleeing your homes
Fate sealed by the ignorance of older voters
Continued by inertia through the loopholes
We're no better than action we take on what the truth holds
Nothing's holy a part of me is controlled
The other one's done controlling the evenness of my tone
This damn planet's my home
My family's in the folds
My family's human, animal, whole oceans, and mold and
Groves of baobab trees thousands of years old
So I keep pushing back
Until motherfuckers atone
For owning my fellow beings and muting their own souls
At our expense you're pursuing your own goals
Looking through chestnuts viewing your own gold
They opposed our iron
We made the mountains their tombstones
Species can't cope; there's no reventant when the womb's cold
Made a settlement with the elephants
Broke the treaty like the US government
Acting out at Fort Laramie
They covered up their wounded knee
To put the record on repeat
It's scaring me
Atrocities will follow me across the beat with no relief
Try to fall asleep by counting people because we're the sheep
Infected minds with scrapie
CAFOs show that God's fake but Jesus let the lord save me
When their bodies turn to products their souls stay playing
In meadows with their separated generations
No cages
And outrage is outplayed by outdated outlines
Of plate guidance pushed out by your state
So who's stakes are higher
Double faced wet estates; taste and hate providers
Or future steaks whose eyes are never dry
Born pawns into a game
Their side decided by fate, products of rape
Raised for months to meet their creator step over the gate
To escape their bodies and chains, and obvious pain
And in the aftermath a half of that shit is thrown away
Seems our system prosecutes difference
Right when the distance gets opaque
Akin to familiar patterns of hate
Patterns draped over this strange face
Just their thirst drains a shallow lake, that's all in a day
Well when those days add up? Is that why they say
That these wars over water smell of fried flesh?
Step back, check my breath
Flashing back and forth through time like Farmers Almanac
No reader's digest
The scale of the unrelenting climate progress
Or pollution, we hop into the future on five frog legs
On a golf course to drive home we're hitting dog legs
Oop busted the oil better soap it up with dawn dregs
Afterwards spray the grass with atrazine like its a contest
Then progress, from Johnson bombing Nam to bald the forest
Dropping agent orange like he's tryna rhyme it with itself cause eminem's not born yet
To Oppenheimer offering the only option
From the cockpit rocketing into the future of our human story
It's blurry
Obscured by dust clouds and fuel to bust down the fool's dumb trust in insurance
To afford the price of life
The debt's growing as history's repeating it's currents

I see it see it repeating, I see it see it repeating, I see it see it repeating, I see it see it
I've never thought about leaving but now I've thought of a reason I look around and see We got no reason either
I'm seeing dreams in a fever they tell me I need a breather to put my mind in a freezer Wish it was easy
But still I see it repeating, I see it see it repeating, I see it

Thinking so short term in this vast expanse of time
Somehow predictable of our postcolonial minds
As nature's tattered and frayed, pictures and frames aside
Predict what happens in a millennia when perennial
Clear cuts reign from the Redwoods to the Rhine
And we need food and yet we let the rivers run dry
When using bodies haunts the fact that bodies have minds
And the ghosts of the past give up hope and we find that
Knowledge from the elders dies
Here I am the elder of my siblings trying to save the world
He must be sipping elder wine
Slipping on the rock face
Miraculously survive
Like John Muir of the spoken word
Living like I'm out of time

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