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SoySauce
02:43
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Bowing to all of those that guerrilla gardened the dirt road
To help me hold myself at the barest of my vulnerabilities
Placing my diced guts in front of crowds of strangers,
Honking cars and extractive industry
Earth, meet my tough skin again, a couple of old friends
It had been too many life cycles
They almost didn’t recognise one another
Crying out halmoni’s homemade SoySauce
They’re tears of joy, they’re tears of joy
I will return, this is my deepest promise
It’s a stellar ploy, it’s a stellar ploy
Crying out halmoni’s homemade SoySauce
They’re tears of joy, they’re tears of joy
I will return, this is my deepest promise
It’s a stellar ploy, it’s a stellar ploy
CRYING out halmoni’s homemade SoySauce
They’re TEARS of joy, they’re TEARS OF JOY
I will return, this is my deepest promise
It’s a stellar ploy, it’s a stellar ploy
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Everyone is out on the land
While I’m feeding the cats
And singing songs to the ghosts
Everyone is out and about
While I’m reading the Dao De Ching
And day dreaming
About holding her hand
I wanna hold their hand
I now understand
That I’m not waiting
Everything has happened
We’re just tracing our fingers
Along a deep, vast painting
Everyone’s always around
And I am slowly learning
To embrace that feeling
Everyone, everyone x2
Everyone is out on the land
Everyone is out and about
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collecting bones
03:02
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The particles of your everlasting resentment
That you spat out onto the pavement
Were swallowed up by the insects
And turned into something more
Than what I could ever say
It’s a process of an ever shifting spiral
The humming in your chest is vital
Our songs oscillate in cycles
Turning us into something more
Than what we could ever say
To each other’s faces
Collecting bones scattered along alone
Growing new flesh with our singing
The lonely are rebuilding their homes
The particles of your everlasting resentment
That you spat out onto the pavement
Was swallowed up by the insects
And turned into something more
Than what I could ever say
Than what we could ever say
To each other’s faces
To each other’s faces
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Let this be a reminder
That I need to drink more water
I’m boiling ginger this morning
The ocean magic was on the rocks
As I put my bleached hair under
My flesh was catching fire
Am I still boring
Youuuuu x2
Now I rush out on a wet walk
As I leave a suffocating trail of smoke
Like ginger I fall still and soaked
As the clouds start to flood
I drink all my blood
The breeze is my blanket
But you can have it
Oooooooh x2
I’m having a laugh with the sand
Stuck between my swollen toes
Licking salt off my numb hands
You know how I feel
You know how it goes
I’m walking on sea shells
Collecting your favourite pebbles
Over-overstimulated, over-overwhelmed
I’m counting our freckles
Ooooooooh x2
Let this be a reminder
That I need to drink more water
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My fists were ready to crack this concrete porch
But I’m breaking, shaking again and I’m melting down
Now my knuckles are so sore
And too bare
For this frozen air
But I keep going at it
Not gonna stop til I figure it out
I’m not gonna stop til figure it out
Cold proxy wars dividing families
I’m an impure diasporan, fighting overseas
For my friends deserve the land back
Then maybe we can sew our two halves back
Into anti-colonial anarchy
chorus
This new moon I’m gonna be more assertive
About my boundaries
I know I sing about that in like every song
But I need to be reminded all day long
We were jumping off burning bridges into the lunar
Water
To be looked at and othered
By your own mother
unwrapping the plastic
that we come packaged in
chorus
How strange it is to name your identity
After dynasties and dynasties of patriarchal monarchies
I am of the land and the water
I’m peninsular
Of the insular ancestors
But the cold proxy wars are still dividing me
chorus
No I’m not gonna stop til I figure this out
I’m gonna fucking figure this shit out
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SoyJoy Vancouver, British Columbia
they/them
tales of a dragon finding their way through the
universes
(2019-2023)
now going by June Hawthorn and releasing music at:
junehawthorn.bandcamp.com
alternate bandcamp:
juniper-lee.bandcamp.com
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SoyJoy recommends:
Cheaper Than Therapy
by No.1 Special
corvin's album! my album and theirs are siblings, they grew along side each other
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ava's amazing songs you should check out
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Best plan for your life
by Still Depths
im such a big fan of these folks
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