lirik lagu south somewhere else – nana grizol
it was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else
we grew up in a town that our parents just found on a job search and liked it quite well
who had so many friends who arrived just like them so their kids were our kin for a spell
it was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else
like the feeling of home was a book on a loan from a college town private school shelf
we took in every chapter with interest and laughter but never quite a sense of ourselves
a dangerous narrative, haunting, imperative
led us little kids to believe
that the place we were from shed a sheen we should shun
like the salt of the sweat dripping down from our sleeves
it was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else
like the sun that went down on the edge of my town progressed no further west as it fell
and on visits to relatives couldn’t quite tell cause our pounding heart sank as they swelled
it was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else
as if jim crow geographies didn’t haunt all of the streetscapes we’d come to know well
and not just the old neoclassical mansions we passed or the high school had stories to tell
i mean the segregate sounds of that old college town
ring so loud to me now i must say
as we worked all white restaurants
trash*talking debutantes
our nascent class conscience’ obnoxious displays
it was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else
and maybe it was which i say just because we weren’t noticing where power was held
captivated, the capitol’s capitacratical white liberal logics prevailed
it was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else
multiracial resistance to greedful ambitions, cast out in revisionist spells
power concedes ‘bout as much as it leads as we started to see for ourselves
it was assumed that the south was a thing that took place
in a retrograde rendering of absolute sp*ce
as though everything left in the world wasn’t traced
by production, subjection, resistance, escape
seen squarely through this disidentified gaze
and through textbooks and t.v.’s, our modernist ways
could never quite focus, our partic*p*ting
renewing, rejecting, affirming, negating
lirik lagu lainnya :
- kumpulan lirik lagu big mouth rock › lirik lagu everybody wants my money – big mouth (rock)
- kumpulan lirik lagu devil in the details › lirik lagu dead & discouraged – devil in the details
- kumpulan lirik lagu talk fine tin can bros › lirik lagu be the hero (ft. a. j. holmes) – talk fine, tin can bros
- kumpulan lirik lagu i dreamt the sea › lirik lagu fair weather friend – i dreamt the sea
- kumpulan lirik lagu gojira › lirik lagu sphinx – gojira
- kumpulan lirik lagu enea › lirik lagu gira gira – enea
- kumpulan lirik lagu reece sullivan › lirik lagu today’s the day (live) – reece sullivan
- kumpulan lirik lagu burden of me › lirik lagu maddie rayne – burden of me
- kumpulan lirik lagu ayna › lirik lagu ayna – çökertme (remix) – ayna
- kumpulan lirik lagu lemu jake › lirik lagu kiss – lemu jake