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cime (us) - the north lyrics

[instrumental intro]

[verse 1]
i got a letter the other day
from a family friend
he lived in the north of the north
way up in the town of south bend
he said, there’s nothing for you there
the money here bursts from betwixt the seams
the road is paved with gold and the city never sleeps and you can fulfill your wildest dreams

[verse 2]
three cousins, my sister and brother+in+law, eldest nephew, and older brother had all moved away
but the thing was that unlike them i just hadn’t a single dollar to my name
so i packed all i had into a few pathetic bags and said goodbye to the city i loved dear
goodbye to la ceiba and h+llo to san francisco, i’ve heard a lot about your pier

[verse 3]
through my mountains the villages of mercy bless me with food and faith
and the mounted beast of steel groans and rocks the riders and the earth beneath our tired feet
at night i hear the women scream from the coyotes prowling and scavenging the belly of the beast

[verse 4]
some boys as young as 6 have lost their legs
some girls as young as 5 have gotten raped
families of 4 were reduced to 3, or 2, degloved, disappeared, and displaced
while 100 pre+p+b+scent kids who should have been properly loved were instead riding all alone
hiding a piece of paper with instructions and a phone number, off to work for their parents back home
because there isn’t enough money to feed their baby brother
or maybe their parents await them but they couldn’t afford a smuggler
and so they ride with me
and the coyotes
and the beast
and the night
and the wind
and the cold
and the moon
and the mountains
and the stars
which, in spite of it all
still shine so bright
[verse 5]
passing esquipulas
i pray in hostile land
bags extorted in 48 hours
reflecting beneath beast growls
at a stop, hissing and huffing
too dangerous with us around
and so a punishment
a path yet more deadly
ankle snapped by moonlight
as passenger rail echo fear
past poachers, police shadow trails
if they can’t k!ll us
surely chihuahua will
five hundred hours fifteen hundred miles
three weeks
and at once my body
grows incredibly weak
as the sun guns down
and i fall to my knees

[verse 6]
at last i see her
the rio grande stands before me
heavily guarded
bodies floating
exhausted, and accepting what may come
i run
[verse 7]
shot dead in the water
may the river lead me home
the north is where i die
wet, cold, and alone

[interlude]

[verse 8]
punished for being born
it’s their fault for being poor
irrespectively punished with malicious scorn

[verse 9]
cast the line, throw the bait
reel, let them suffocate
to criminalize acts so legally dense
a universally feared pretense
just use rhetoric, for and against
soldiers don’t help, nor does the fence
just encourage & destabilize

[verse 10]
slaves keep the gdp high
tributaries from birth pre+defined
call for blood yet decry the flow
when the rivers of the north run south
[verse 11]
riches earned through self+serving lies
talk human traffick one more time
talk saving kids one more time
as they work your 9+5s
raze them all, more will come
there’s too much to gain
you can never dam this stream
so pulverize and pave our names

[verse 12]
and if i never see home again
let the following be known
i hope you do get overrun
and i hope it does collapse
to pan de coco and the carnivals you fear so much

[verse 13]
i wish i hadn’t come here either
and i wish i’d never been born
i wish i didn’t speak english
and i wish i wasn’t homeless
but i guess that’s just what i get
i wish white people would shut the f+ck up
but i guess that’s just what i get

[verse 14]
i wish i wasn’t transgender
but i guess that’s just what i get
i wish i died on october 12, 2014
when my uncle promised to k!ll me
but i guess that’s just what i get
and i hope you k!ll yourself too and i hope you feel every second of it
i hope that you feel so bad about yourself that you f+cking k!ll yourself
does this sound like i care about what i’m saying go f+cking k!ll yourself
if you make your own money i hope you k!ll yourself
i will die penniless and unfulfilled and i will not regret a single moment of it

[verse 15]
i didn’t ask for any of this
i don’t want any of this
i don’t want to f+cking hear it
but i guess that’s just what i get

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