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Drawing Breath

from The Current Meta by Khemmeta

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If you love me, and love who I love, and grieve who I'm grieving, this song may be intense.

The Current Meta is: staring at the ruins of your nuked city and wondering how you could possibly rebuild society alone.

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ain’t a angle to make it better
i shoulda used my prayer hands to
strangle the paramedics
sent em to you to grovel for
failing to do their jobs
are they worthy of drawing breath if it
isn’t keep your heart

at a rhythm that keeps the stars in a
harmony, it’s hard to see
a reason to keep treating
tomorrows like non-atrocities
i shoulda lost it and
heard the bell of a boxing ring
bashed in every skull til the
very second you’re brought to me

living thriving and smiling
why shouldn’t it work just like this?
how could this rickety shit be the
universe we’re confined in?
who in the fuck designed this?
point me at where to find them
i’ll nail them to wooden planks til their
very lungs can’t abide them!

least that’s the fee that i am
extracting to get you back
why shouldn’t the world dissolve into
ruin when you we lack?
guess i’mma rage at gods or else
doctors would have to choke at my
palms when i try to cope cuz my
goddess just ain’t supposed to die


goddesses ain’t supposed to die
goddesses ain’t supposed to die


i shoulda went catatonic
stapled my eyelids shut til you
wake me up with a sonnet
make me realize it all was a
nightmare to be forgotten
or maybe descend to silence and
simply wait for the darkness

ain’t a spark of the sun that can
evaporate these acid rain
clouds that replaced all the weather
after you passed away
i’ll accept this dimension
when you get back to me
otherwise rebuke this disaster
this ain’t the path that we

tapped into together, we
hacked into the network
fractions we were never
but as two we were better
and ask who could expect us to
patch through to the stress of this
fragmented society
and glue it correctly

for the first time properly
render this world a holy site
where everyone feels love that can
supplement all their broken sides
follow in your path but it’s
nonsense to pray and hope
post-apocalypse ain’t no coping my
goddess just ain’t supposed to die.


goddesses ain’t supposed to die.
goddesses ain’t supposed to die.

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from The Current Meta, released January 20, 2023
Performed and recorded by Khemmeta at The River Crux.
Lyrics by Khemmeta.
Beat by Khemmeta.

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Khemmeta's music strives to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, or are shouted down when they do. His upcoming EP "When I Get To It" produced by Stephonathan (1/3 of both Pride City Purpose & Chedda Guap Boyz) is silly, nerdy, romantic, anti-nihilistic and defiant. He can't wait for you to get to it this [December]. ... more

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