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This song was written in loving memory of my partner, Marissa Snoddy.

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my sand over your sand any day
when my beach ran outta sand,
it was a shitty day
understatement of the century
now that she’s ascended,
i’m just hoping she remembers me

however it goes
nommo sun in my sky,
so it’s desolate cold
and i’m tryna be a vessel
for her legacy’s glow
but i’m barely even reaching
my pathetically low

every goal
feels more like a trap,
in a universe that
takes away your star in a flash, it’s all ash
why try to build a life outta that?
why show at 9 to work each morning
just surviving in the capitalists’ vice

and why rap about my feelings
if the raps ain’t about building
a contraption that redacts
passage of time beyond the ending
of my whole world in January,
happiness stopped
what could i do except to
cuff in place the hands of the clock?


not alla that!
all i'm tryna do is flip the hourglass
cuz i can’t take that the hour’s passed
imma make the universe give her hours back


she never needed you diminished,
to amplify her greatness
ain’t a number in the calculator
could equate with
her grace
cuz it ain’t about data, but where your pace is
one foot in front of the other
to change your place

and be grateful
for every grain of sand arranged at fate’s whim
i never understood her patience
with this makeshift
universe where suffering
needn’t follow some great sin
more than occasional,
innocents get forsaken

punctuated with
sudden endings and heartbreak
hide your tears
but the stoicism won’t stop plagues
Rockbiter’s hands
where his beloved friends were not safe
dropped by a myopic deity
tryna mock satan

and i’m still building sand castles
right under tsunamis
a thousand monuments
to echo the wonders she taught me
and it won’t be enough
but the hunger is throbbing
cooking morsels up for supper
to plug up my talk-piece

not alla that!
all i'm tryna do is flip the hourglass
cuz i, can’t take that the hour’s passed
i'mma make the universe give her hours back

and really i’m taking decades
put me in her light again
and i’ll be at my best phase
i’ll learn to live for the present
and not the next day
let us cherish each second
and let the stress lay.

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from How to Outrun a Supernova, released August 6, 2021

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Khemmeta San Francisco, California

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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