Maroons

[Intro]

And of course, no such thing as danger, without purity, no such thing as blackness...

[Verse 1: billy woods]

Caravans crisscrossin' dunes

And ants crawlin’ on the face of the moon

And 599 Trelawny Maroons marooned in the snow and gloom

In Nova Scotia colder than a tomb

And sour stinkin' handkerchiefs soaked in perfume

Female flowers drinkin' in Hairouns and

I need a big gyal dem, let me be the little spoon and

No white saviors, look what happened to the Cubans

Reluctantly sold bud to my white neighbors when they moved in

Yup that’s right, harbingers abound

Locusts swarmin', you can't see the ground

The sun blotted out

The sound of plague rattlin' against the house

[Verse 2: Moor Mother]

I knew it was over when I dropped a quarter in the class

Washington headass lookin' at me like, you outta gas

But what about the oil rivers?

Diamond mine  glitters

H&H and all his bitches

Serpere witch riches

The queen of England stealin' voodoo scriptures

Paintin' foggy ass pictures of John D, crowd shoulda came strippin'

He don’t know no now

And you don’t know me

Hottentot, T rounds clippin'

Tar(?) babies spittin’

In the face of the Klan, in the face of your man

In the kingdom of Ham

Son of climate change, Noah

Allowed to pick and choose in the Torah, my Lord

I'm just a blood pourer

Ten seconds left with the Earth in my hand

I'm the go-to sorcerer

[Bridge: Imani Robinson]

It's a race

The longest race that’s ever been known

Skull and bone, chaos and tone

The bell tolled, ringing ears with religion

Calculated division from the clocktower

You see the blood bank glisten

[Outro: Moor Mother]

Moonstone, glistening silver silhouette

Of what's lurking

Whispering in the shadows

Corrupt must, old spice, blood moon

The clock flocks like doves

Crying was what killing is now

Fat rendered down in the slow process of change coming

Interlocking around sounds, spinning disks

Moorish architecture, inside voices

Don't let them get ahold of the word

Let alone the design