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Erring of the Revolution Pt. 1 (ft. Yexandra 'Yex' Diaz)

from This is Our Environment by Joseph Herbst

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lyrics

I’ve got this change in my pocket that
I rearrange and rearrange but it just keeps dropping
I’ve got a hole in my pocket
They’ve got a hold on the old me
I just can’t stop
It’s a beautiful day to spend this change but
My momma warned me not to use it all up in one place
In time
My mind breaks as I try to make a dollar out of change
Out of fifteen cents
It makes no sense why my currency’s not accepted here
Urgently I search for the convergence
We need the gold standard
To uphold manners and not -isms
Can’t you hear my change jangling?
It sounds like white hands strangling like
Strange fruit dangling like
Black bodies mangled and tangled
In the leashes of hounds cause they can’t count
No matter how much I change my Blackness resounds
I’ve got this change in my pocket that
I rearrange and rearrange so that it’s placed in order, order, order in the court
There is no order please abort
Abort mission, abort fetus
Abort full grown man from Indigenous land
We refuse to join them so they beat us
Labored slavery reborn, they need us
Can’t you hear my change jangling?
It sounds like white hands strangling like
Strange fruit dangling like
Black bodies mangled, tangled
In the hands of bankers that have a hankering for Black despair
I bleach my Black skin
I perm my Black hair
I police my Blackness while you police my Black kids
It don’t make no sense
It’s just not fair

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from This is Our Environment, released January 22, 2021

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Joseph Herbst New York, New York

Composer, arranger, copyist, and saxophonist Joseph Herbst uses music as a medium for storytelling, often as part of collaborative projects, in order to push ourselves to see the world in different ways while strengthening our sense of community.

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