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Be Yourself Demo

by Te Kooti Brotherhood

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Moving Beyond Ourselves (Gorilla Biscuits) This colonial mindset is feeding my warped perception of seeing everything as either threat or potential possession there is no neutrality here Let me hear love's language in the midst of this let me not twist this hearing away; otherwise everything will sound with only the petty, shrill clamour of my own cravings and fears My worth is tied to this How is my name spoken? How is my name heard? Let me hear love's language In the midst of this; in the midst of this It's time I move beyond myself and I believe there is a dying and rising that speaks to this If I give up my rights and step into a new paradigm that reorients conformity
2.
A Western Fallacy Twenty-nine die at Pike River Mine While over three-fifty are somehow denied A time to be mourned on our six O-clock news Their deaths are forgotten amidst our need for Western precedence Nearly three thousand died in those towers whilst malaria kills more in twenty-four hours Yet these kids - five and younger - are granted no voice And we sit back and take this as norm Where is their good Samaritan? Where is our good Samaritan? The media still reveals a western supremacy reflecting a racism toward the majority We've become immune to the state of their reality And our eyes are turned away We see the aids epidemic, mass poverty, war and we trivialize, disassociate and ignore Have we accepted a hopeless fatalism or are we just too consumed to notice ...too preoccupied with the daily routines of life Does our skin colour and cultural difference blind us from the fact that we are one... Whanau (whanau) We share the same blood, we share the same blood. Where is their good Samaritan? Where is our good Samaritan? "Until lions have their own historians Tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter"
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Be Yourself 02:47
Be Yourself Like you're in a play... You stand, you speak, you play your part But what is it that you’re hoping for? You don’t need to strive to belong you’ve got nothing to prove so just be Just be... Be yourself Be yourself Be yourself Be yourself Don’t let this world tell you how to live make changes as a turn against narcissism It’s in community that we find true expression don’t be afraid to express who you know yourself to be Be yourself Be yourself Be yourself Be yourself Be yourself (cos at the end of the day) Be yourself (if you’re not being yourself) Be yourself (then who are you being) Be yourself (someone else) No more certainty, the boxes we build are a fraud This tension is the result of our decision This tension... No more certainty, the boxes we build are a fraud You don’t need to prove anything It’s not what you do it’s who you are
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Make me fearless A young man declares, “I love you” Yet in his heart he whispers, “What is love?” Love has become such an empty word What does it mean? What does it mean? He opens to a picture of a woman Someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, someone’s mother And he whispers in his heart, “I lust you” I don’t know you yet I choose to covet you And deep in his being... he knows That when he objects her... he shows A true state of the depth of our distortion And something within him screams “Make me fearless, make me fearless, make me fearless It is this fear that chokes real relationship Make me fearless, make me fearless It is my fear that is choking my love”
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Whanau 02:46
Whanau There's no more you against me Can't you see; can't you see We're all whanau There's no more slave or free Can't you see; can't you see We're all whanau So don't discriminate and don't segregate And don't forget to listen So don't dehumanize and don't objectify And don't forget to listen For when we listen then we hear And when we hear we no longer just see a face; we see a story We see a picture of ourselves Presented in a different context but with the same blood So don't discriminate and don't segregate And don't forget to listen So don't dehumanize and don't objectify And don't forget to listen We are one...Whanau We are one...Whanau We are one...Whanau We are one...Whanau He iwi tahi tatou (we are one people) So don't discriminate and don't segregate And don't forget to listen So don't dehumanize and don't objectify And don't forget to listen

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released January 1, 2011

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