Leaves (feat. Kiya Sakari)
Greenfield
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The winter leaf doesn't fall far from the tree You pick it up or leave it, it's not up to me I'm learning every day about a facet of my people Came a long way from stackin' bricks up in Egypt Every thirty years they tryin' to put us in the ghetto Then they say we got the strings like Gepetto Cookin' lies that we can peddle From the comfort of the shtetl Can't put a cat inside a kennel, and expect it to settle We rise up, turn a silo to asylum Eyes up, make your kosher bread straight from the geyser Wise up, the world doesn't like you, stop tryin' Mind your own business, watch the racks pile up Higher and higher, give your kids' kids kind luck Attract ire from the white man who put you there Now he sets it on fire The horizon lookin' like a mass grave funeral pyre Culture is destroyed in one stroke Death sounds like a knock on your front door Glass is broken, so you run home But home is death, home is death Brushed away like the leaves do Your history is see-through The one tie you have is your Hebrew But the wreckage of your heritage is underneath you The wreckage of your heritage, tryin' to sound benevolent Play the victim card, that's a game that you'll never win Takin' over land, layin' down your settlements Every goddamn lawyer steals my money and embezzles it You takin' over banks, takin' over decimals Takin' mommy's money, it was meant for medicinals Leeches on society, take and then you try to leave Enough is enough, stake your first sign of peace We are not lambs for your line to the slaughter We are not content with dyin' as the martyrs We are not complacent, we'll die for the father You think you're so smart? We'll fight a lot smarter Smash the glass in, exterminate the fascists Take your fraud money, burn your propaganda Treat you like the vermin that you are, in sanguine For all my life, I knew killin' was the answer Culture is destroyed in one stroke Death sounds like a knock on your front door Glass is broken, so you run home But home is death, home is death Brushed away like the leaves do Your history is see-through The one tie you have is your Hebrew But the wreckage of your heritage is underneath you Look into the future, do I raise a Jewish family How can it be? Chosen people, that's a fantasy My kids'll have a chip on they shoulder, cuz of vanity Cuz I know I'll keep identity close to my core beliefs I wish I could separate Normandy from normalcy But in my mind my art will always carry the atrocity Committed against my people on both sides of the odyssey Pogroms and diasporas and holocausts in me God laughs in the face of cruelty, it's accostin' me 300 centuries of solitude, fightin' for Thermopylae Like Persephone, we ate the pomegranate seed The Tree of Eden falls when we're close to the canopy Blood is anarchy, blood is puttin' your cousin in front of sanity Blood is brotherhood through tragedy I worship the blood, cuz it's always there for me Through every single trauma, blood has been my only guarantee Culture is destroyed in one stroke Death sounds like a knock on your front door Glass is broken, so you run home But home is death, home is death Brushed away like the leaves do Your history is see-through The one tie you have is your Hebrew But the wreckage of your heritage is underneath you
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