Omnicolour Crescent Lyrics

Outside is a bit of rainbow in a blue sky

But I see in monochrome

Nothing poetic about a courtroom

This ancient black & white reel depicts

Smouldering reservations

And smallpox epidemics

And in the light of molten embers

Dripping off their crucifix

The powerful sit around a roulette table

Gambling lives of the ritually disempowered

Spent a week just fuckin trapped

In a little glass box

While they spoke for me

And talked about me

As though I was a ghost

Of a disappeared people

And it wasn't until I was called

As a witness to speak for myself

That colour became visible again

My eyes became visible again

That bit of rainbow in the sky

But I can't do this alone

Baited to sign blood-red

On funding applications

Begging on the phone for the approval

To get my degree

Participated in boardroom banter

Which means I have wagered

My token identity officially

Orange shirt enduring

Boring racist railroading

Polite and sanitary clothing

But listen

I won't let this system swallow me

I won't let this system swallow me

Though sometimes

There is a hook in my cheek

A line stringing up

A sinker caught in my throat

Belly yellow from gagging

On their black pen paperwork

Witness their contracts signed

To usurp with an unending killing season

Attempted eradications of Indigenous people

And we are forced until our faces turn green

To stomach the courts signing the orders

Making status quo excuses for the carnage

Speaking in mind-closed absolutes

They say

Then was a different time

That

We were killing each other already

And now

We are the government's wards

See

We never had modern medicine

Until disease warfare was designed for us

What would we do without your addictions

To opioids and Game of Thrones and gratification

Indian reserves become the model

For Nazi concentration camps

We witness them become the model

For ICE camps

Not that different

From salmon farms

Serial killers and mass-shooters

Are labelled lone-wolf deviants

Despite working blue forces

And worshipping in churches

Designed

To make the women go missing and murdered

And they manufacture our own consent

So goddamn hard

We too busy paying rent

To settler landlords on ancestors land

We don't stop to see

The sky we stand under

Together

Until push has already

Shoved us into the gravel

Until fentanyl epidemics

Annihilate populations

Explain it away as poverty

And our own doing

Do we dirty our own water

Embezzle money we never had

Use for

Before contact

So they call me contemptuous

But I am an Indigo student of prudence

A Halluci-Nation brought on

To sink this fishing ship with these words writ

In a paper stacked apocalypse

This is what I come to grips with

The increasing distance

Measured out between

Us in urban districts

Housing crisis and work stress

But If I did it for the dollar

I wouldn't be a poet

I would make a profit

I'd exploit loop-holes

Thru submitted form

And an envelope fold

Remember Tawahum

Violet revolutions

Don't ask for permission

But boy it's easy to get busy here

Signing away my identity

What monochrome paper contract

Did they have to make

And which rainbow sacred contract

Did they have to break

To produce a single-coloured empire?

Rewrite the agreements

In an omni-colour crescent

Rewrite the agreements

In an omni-colour crescent

Rewrite the agreements

In an omni-colour crescent

Rewrite the agreements

I wake in their cell

Heart open

Free as I have ever been