Name: What's In A Name
Duration: P00H03M12S
Description: A song about my dead name #transfeelings

What's In A Name

from Ruptured by NahBo

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A song about my dead name #transfeelings

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Chorus:
My lineage is both great and
Terrible and so I am
Reminded by my name
It’s a string that wraps around my neck
And ties me to the ship decks
That came and stole the tongues and stories
So I’d never be found again
But, I am not lost
I am here
I am there
I am everywhere
And nowhere
Just like my name

Verse:
This name string straps me to my ancestors
Both pillagers, and pillaged
All I want is to fill my mouth
All I want is to fill my lungs
All I want is to fill my heart
But I’m choking on the land that made me
My blood is the rivers
My blood is the lakes
My blood is the ocean
My blood is this place
But blood from both sides
Resides behind my eyes
And when they close death cries

No citizen of the human race
Mixed-race face has no place
I am not human to them
NahBo, I am alien
I exist beyond the shackles of my limbs
My body is unlike my kin
So I am their shame
I am to blame
We’re not the same
I am the shame
I am to blame
It’s in my name
We’re not the same
What’s in a name?
What’s in a name?

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from Ruptured, released August 27, 2021

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NahBo Wellington, New Zealand

Astronesian native, NahBo, is sad about colonisation, then makes beats about it.

Released on Empty Goon Records.

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