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Sleeping with the status-quo,
between the sheets and the need to grow
there’s a knock on the door
is there still a knot in my throat anymore?
In the morning I woke
to the refuse of culture: the shell and the yoke
there beside me I noticed
how only self-hating loves something that’s broke.

I don’t know how courage grows
fed by disillusion and soul.
Revolution wasn’t bred in my bones
I drank milk from the breast of the hopeful.
In the evening I spoke
with the echoes of goddess that clamor and choke.
I've got to pacify all the lines I wrote;
send them up in the signals of smoke.

If I’d been born in a back logged town where the girls grow like corn,
I would have worn my head like a heart on the sleeve of my soul shorn.

Sleeping with the status-quo,
my unconflicted dreams let him go.
I awoke in his room.
Ambiguity wrestled me over the moon.
I want courage like doubt.
I want tears from the sky like the rain in my mouth.
I’m gonna count my bruises and never look back.
I’m moving out to the count civil-rights soundtrack.

We shall overcome.

I don’t know how courage grows
fed by disillusion and soul.
Revolution wasn’t bred in my bones
I drank milk from the breast of the hopeful.

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from SelfRealizedNation: a song cycle for the occupation, released July 3, 2013

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Alma's Engine is creative work by Eppchez. Ey has been know to make music in pursuit of honest reflection and deep connection to others. Eppchez had a period of compulsive song writing from 2011-13. Ey hopes to be back at it when eir wrists heal/ ey gets a band together. These songs, in their open sorrow and musing joy are for you. ... more

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