Name: lines in the sand
Duration: P00H04M26S
Description: A protest song for the people whose lives are affected by the imposition of borders and checkpoints both physical and conceptual. Integrating the sounds of the street with fierce dub and ska influences, the fire in the heart of the free burns through the lines in the sand.

lines in the sand

from A PATTERN LANGUAGE by onenes

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A protest song for the people whose lives are affected by the imposition of borders and checkpoints both physical and conceptual. Integrating the sounds of the street with fierce dub and ska influences, the fire in the heart of the free burns through the lines in the sand.

lyrics

prepare for Inspection
reads the sign above my eyes
cold with no reflection
no intention to recognize
does this child believe interrogation can reveal
my mind my kind

he will never know
my true identity
the path of my migrations
my relations
my maker I divinity
blinded and hiding
behind bar coded walls
brother cannot see
our survival
is a matter of interconnectivity
suppression of my movement
suffocates our humanity
the time has arrived
to stand aside
right beside me

open to coordination
cultural and spiritual integration
this is the direction
of our reunity
this or rebellion

turn your back
to the bottom line
that separates
this scene in time
from visions
of wide open light lines

look deep into
our eyes real eyes
you cannot deny we
can surely fly
past your lines
in the sand
in the sky
freedom fighters
live to rise

I have boarded so many vessels
carried so many blessings
crossing sacred thresholds
barricaded ancient passages
no man can strip
search the essence of this body
continental psychic physical
the earth is maternal
and no man can restrict me

currents of kindread
carry me high
soaring songs on tradewinds
crossing critical climates
artificial divides
one witness to fragmentations of populations
uprooted families fleeing
desperate situations
shifting and reshifting their lives

look with real eyes
you cannot deny
we can surely fly
past your lines
in the sand
in the sky
resurrected
pheonix tribe
on the rise

though they have
scattered us
they can not shatter us
the path home runs deep
like rivers in our bones

credits

from A PATTERN LANGUAGE, released February 19, 2015
An Ethnobotanical Sound Lab Experiment

All Lyrics and Vocals by Nirah Shirazipour
Music Production by Ninad Yage and Nirah Shirazipour
Sound Mix by Ninad Yage
Master by Daniel Romano

Additional music credits:
Joel ~ violin

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onenes Alto Paraíso De Goiás, Brazil

OneneS is an evolutionary frequency that moves thru the edges of freestyle hip hop poetics, psychedelia, world beat and tribal jazz... merging the barriers between organic and electronic sound design... what is woven reveals an innovative form of storytelling that submerges the listener in a trancelike realm of perception that all is OneneS. ... more