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False Eyes
04:09
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False Eyes
(lyrics © Mojdeh)
The moth wasn't always a winged face
It didn't always perch, or fly
or outstretch its fierce fly-ers
False eyes a-gaze, hunger
Self protector, self knowing
She evolved from the burrow
She evolved from the hiding place (chrysalis)
From the quiet hunger (from the quiet hunger)
The kind that would make the body
consume itself (reform)
She is all secrets
And secrets
And secrets
And secrets
And she prays to the east (Allah?)
But yearns for the west (Allah?)
And many men will not live (Allah?)
Her desperate tries to save her children (Allah?)
And mystical dance
and dancing follicles
and mutter-moving antennae
until she quietly finds home in the
wing-folds of many fly-ers fierce
"Such light"
The many bends a-flutter
The many morphed
and ever morphing bodies
promising to rise near the flame to meet her
While family burns in wait
As the West’s refuge fled
These secrets are hidden
She folds fabric modest before each prayer
Even in the occupied camps she removes her shoes
One woman wrapped in an entire platoon of men
They will always promise to protect her
Slips in with insurgents to save our men
(but what of her safety)
Slips in with insurgents to save our men
Her husband fears arachnid men
Patient as their thirst grows for her settle
into soldiers’ web, insurgents’ web
They have secrets
"So many secrets"
While family burns in wait
As the West’s refuge fled
She prays for her family to be refugees
in another place soon
but son knows what insurgents do (Allah?)
when they find who's who
Bringing the occupiers to
their fighting flames
We become the fire's promise
as we hover before its gaze
We are all pulled to the flutter of the heat
We are the flutter of the heat
We are all pulled to the flutter of the heat
We are the flutter of the heat
Fold the fabric
Conceal her name (Fold)
Conceal her purpose (Fabric)
Conceal her lips (Secrets)
(So no one would know her)
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2. |
Drowning Chain
07:00
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Drowning Chain
(lyrics © Mojdeh)
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain (I’m sorry)
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain, I'm sorry
Where are you? I have been looking for help!
Without your reaching and wanting ears
silence traps me here, silence traps me here
If I cannot speak I have nothing to lift me
Atypical, I'm sorry
So typical, this depression
Whatever it is, name it
However complex, I know
There is no cure for me
unheeded, unheeded
There is no cure for me
I know, my capacity
I know (unheeded)
I know (unheeded)
I know (unheeded)
I know
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain (I'm sorry)
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain (It's a drowning chain) (I’m sorry)
It's a drowning chain (It's a drowning chain)
Where are you? I have been looking for help!
Without your reaching and wanting ears
(Best hope, this cage stays)
Silence traps me here (silence traps me)
If I cannot speak I have nothing to lift me
(Best hope, this cage stays)
Best hope, this cage stays (To lift me) (stays)
I'm sorry
Whatever it is, restrain this
However this reflex might go
There is no care for me
To be retrieved (from manmade maelstroms)
There is no care for me
I know, I’m too poor (unheeded, unheeded)
I know (unheeded)
I know (unheeded)
I know
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain, I'm sorry
It's a drowning chain
It's a drowning chain, I'm sorry
Where are you? (Where?) (I have been looking!) (Where are you?)
Best hope, (Where?) this cage, (Where are you?) stays (I’m drowning)
Best hope, (Where?) this cage, (Where are you?) stays
Best hope, (Where?) this cage, (Where are you?) stays
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3. |
Dirty
07:05
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Dirty
(lyrics © Mojdeh)
(Run!)
I feel dirty
I feel dirty
I feel dirty (hey?)
I feel dirty (hey?!)
You call me your, "hh-uh-hh-uh-hh-uh-hh-uh!"
You call me your, "hh-uh-hh-uh-hh-uh-hh-uh!"
You call me your, “hhhhhhhhhhhh!"
You call me your, “[ ____ ]"
I feel dirty
I feel dirty
I feel dirty (hey?)
I feel dirty (hey!?!)
You call me your, “Nigger!?”
You call me your, “Hey you little black girl!?”
You call me your, "hh-uh-hh-uh-hh-uh-hh-uh!"
You call me your “Whore!?”
You call me your, “Nigger!?”
You call me your, “Hey you little black girl!?”
You call me your, "hh-uh-hh-uh-hh-uh-hh-uh!"
You call me your “Whore!?”
I feel dirty
I feel dirty
I
feel
dirty
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
hhhhhh!
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4. |
Before She Wakes (Pray)
04:43
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Before She Wakes (Pray)
(lyrics © Mojdeh)
Pray she, pray she wakes
Pray she, pray she wakes
Pray away the dark depression days
Pray she feels she has the feathered freedom
Pray she forgets distress
Though the Walmart lots will allow for rest
No ticket, no blue lights and keys tap-tap investigating
No promise of safety
Just that catching sleep won't find a prison cell
to replace your memories of home
Pray she, pray she wakes up
Pray she, pray she wakes up
If she dies before she wakes,
May she have a vision sitting beside Abdu'l-Bahá
Tongues' quiet prayer behind sugar crystals
clenched and melting
in the sweltering gulps of bergamot tea
I dream of ends of suffering and of passing boiled
If she dies before she wakes,
May she first dream of holding her sister's and mother’s hands
Left behind in another land before they both
became the color of new saffron stigma
Forty years and many seas,
a revolution made many martyrs
where the exiled and prisoners meet
(both surrender)
(No boils) Pray she
(No frost) Pray she wakes
(No forgotten) Pray she
(No hunger or hungry heart) Pray she wakes up
(My love) Pray she
(of life given to me) Pray she wakes
Pray she, pray she wakes up
Pray she, pray she wakes
Pray she
Pray she wakes up
Pray she wakes up
Pray she wakes
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5. |
allNEED
04:08
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allNEED
(lyrics © Mojdeh)
Your song,
I believed it a gesture of gentle
Loneliness
Wonder of worthy
Trigger for acting out
I know you.
I asked for this?
I must've wanted!
You know I have been chiseled
the way you like it
I am not to fix
Collect my pieces
You hold them
they are your trophies
Companion, I wanted
It is your mode of operating
The way that you find
to find your victims
I think, I see you
I fear here, my participation strange
Didn't want what this became
But I must've asked for this!
Didn't I ask for this?
Companion, I wanted
But you’re the foot pushing the pedal!
Didn't want the gear to shift
But I must've asked for this!
Now I
I see you
I know you make (companionship)
Stockholm of my body, commodity
(all need) I'll muffle if you stay (safety)
(all need) I want to feel safe (safety)
Can I?
With you?
Ohhhh
I didn’t ask for this
but I
didn’t ask for this
hmmmm?
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6. |
Save Yourself
06:27
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Save Yourself
(lyrics © Mojdeh)
Save yourself from me!
I can be deafening!
Don't remember your name
but I’ve been changed
My truth's spell spoken will
flood your heaven with the hurt your victims felt
‘cause your bully hands (your bully hands)
they tricked and they touched
I was forced to know too much! (too much)
Don't remember your face!
Body memories don't lie like evidence
We raced at your beckon
We stripped under bark
We cried when the dam burst
‘cause we thought the big boys would care for us
It's brick against back
It's foot flattened grass
It's not how many feet under for you,
it's how soon! How soon?
Save yourself from me!
I can be haunting!
There will be justice
(just wait) (justice)
There will be
There will be
(just wait) justice (justice)
Whatever gold, became coal
For justice this will smolder
It's brick against back
It's foot flattened grass
It's not how many feet under
for you, it's how soon!
How soon!? How soon!?
There will be justice
There will be justice (just wait)
There will be
There will be
There will be justice
There will be justice (just wait)
There will be (there will be, there will be, there will be)
(just wait, just wait) There will be justice
There will be (just wait)
There will be justice
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»radiant devices« Berlin, Germany
Transgressive, divergent electronic rock.
Edgy sounds with sophisticated poetry.
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Mojdeh,
Fyodor Sakhnovski
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Chicago x Berlin
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