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Terminal ft. Soul Hacker

from Reversing Entropy by Khemmeta

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Soul Hacker:
The symptoms were similar
you could tell it was eating away at their soul
by the lack of empathy
displayed in their last days
It was all a haze
the way
they ignored each other's pain
laughed at each other's shortcomings
stood on the bloody bodies to feel tall
mocked the call
to resist
the disease
that we knew would bury us all
O' why they kept coming
shooting us down
making our mothers cry
Dark days felt darker for the darkest ones who had to hide the best parts of themselves in forts
incognito
Away from those who could not hold them
They prayed for those who could not hold them
But God said she had given them so many chances
Then it happened
spasms, screaming, crying
You could see it coursing through their veins
This wasn't revenge
Just reverse entropy
They were reaping what they sewed
If only they had known
the price
would be their soul
bodies became soul less
They were so less
living only a fraction of the life they could have had
They imploded
Folded into themselves
There was chaos for a while
We mourned the loss of humanity
Trying to not be Jonah
Swallowed by the whale of grief
But we circled back to love
But we circled back to love
We came back to love

Khemmeta:
when hate becomes a terminal disease
you’ll wake up in the morning and all that you’ll feel is free
you’ll look into the mirror and all that you’ll see is glee
on the visage of an image just stoked it can call you “me”

when you leave a crib, it’s a party on the streets
djs bumpin the beats and everyone is glad to meet
nobody’s excluded and everyone’s on they feet
everyone’s in the kitchen and everyone loves the heat, yo

when hate becomes a terminal disease
a roof over your head won’t mean a complicated lease
your daily life pursuits won’t be choking you like a leash
happiness won’t be some improbable mountain peak

you’ll climb unhindered by competitive ascenders
never have to fork your neighbor’s forearm for your dinner
lemonade in the summer; hot chocolate in the winter
no need to cheat to win the day everyone is a winner, uh

when hate becomes a terminal disease
lovers explore each other in whichever way they please
no pitchfork lynch mobs await with arcane decrees
to segregate the heathenous “they” from the sacred “we”

prayers are blessings for neighbors, never curses on foes
no need to calculate for their success, vs their woes
no need to separate the breath of poetry from our prose
love will never be as fleeting as an uprooted rose, but yo

when hate becomes a terminal disease
priests’ll see that love is the holiest creed to teach
christians’ll take heed to what jesus actually preached
teachers’ll have pupils whose lives don’t have to be bleak

bullying won’t be a rite of passage or a necessary
evil as we show our younglings how to live respectfully
as equals and especially that "lessar-than's" a crock of fiction
better yet, that fam extends and every human is a kinsman

when love becomes the only way to live
saying, “i hate your face” will be the only way to fib
no one will fear success the day jealousy’s made a myth
no crabs to grab the ankles when everyone gets uplifted

‘cause, escape velocity needed to evade the poverty
on earth won’t be a problem when society puts prophecy
a couple hundred steps ahead profit as a priority
celebrate our victories, give the people seniority

preemptive eagles strike, talons drippin with murder
ripping families apart to find justice, it's just absurd
toddlers playin cops and robbers near coppers get early burials
war’s everywhere, hate’s been terminal

so when we learn to halt the pandemic
isolate the pathogen inoculate our children
before they start displayin symptoms
if we can’t cure the sickness, we can say rest in peace to human existence.

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from Reversing Entropy, released April 8, 2015

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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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