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lyrics

Pariah, exiled, exiled, reviled, banished, suppressed, pariah,
detested, hated, chastised, berated, pariah. Derelict under
heavy hand, spurned within beguilement. Drenched in your
misinformation, misguide impressionate minds. Stepping
stoned towards minor success, witness vanity annihilate you.
Confront the beast within. Naked without weapons, we stand
up to you.
Take and take filled with hate. Fight and fight to fix mistake.
Reach and claw to tear away. Gather the truth for self
preservation. Threats of violence will no longer detour us. We
welcomed the thought of giving up, but the will to quit will end
up in damnation. To find the truth you have to lose, to grow
from loss we have to choose. Excepting you as damaged youth,
forgiving you is path to truth. Gathered the truth for self
preservation. The threat of violence will no longer detour us.
We welcome the thought of giving up, but the will to quit will
end up in damnation. Forgive but not forget.
Truth, it comes to those who seek, you choose to hide behind
the weak, a mind that is destined to be blind. A misstep that’s
likely to repeat, with eyes that really see. A gift that the spirits
handed me. I see the self hatred seed, the same seed I saw in
me. Now we see, the actions that you made, we out of the fear
of rejection. A cycle of abuse that you went through. Forgive
you, but not for you, for us so we can heal from you. The
damage that you have caused, will be the burden that you live with.

credits

from Pariah, released December 8, 2023
Recorded February 29 and May 23, 2020 at Etching Tin Studios in Richmond, VA.
Produced by Richard Schellenberg and Among The Rocks And Roots
Mixed by Richard Schellenberg
Written by Abdul-Hakim Bilal and Samuel Goff
Lyrics by Abdul-Hakim Bilal
String Arrangements by Robert Andrew Scott

Abdul-Hakim Bilal - Bass, Vocals, Percussion
Samuel Goff - Drums, Percussion
Jessica Blanks - Violin
Robert Andrew Scott - Keyboards
Erik Schroeder - Alto Saxophone
Jimmy Ghaphery - Alto Saxophone

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Our aims and goals will be to not be constrained by genre or geography but to have a unifying theme. One of passion, excitement and experimentation in music. We want to release styles as divergent in genre as avant garde, world music, experimental, jazz, noise, metal, hip hop, punk, classical, etc. ... more

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