The setting of a bus stop reveals the dissonance and tension that exists below the surface of society and alludes to the extent to which colonialism reaches out from the past into the present to perpetuate discord.
A collaboration of film and spoken word crafted by participants of the Gallery 37 project.
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[Music]
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so terrific and terrified my swollen
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eyes the fear being taken look to me
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you’re a spirit in heaven fuck the
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police this authoritarian figure fuck
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the police I am nobody’s niggas Oh
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who do we call when the police breaks
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the law his innocence spread upon the
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pavement there Seafarer his innocence
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spread upon the pavement lifeless but
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did you hear the story from Belletti
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Hamaoka a visitor selasa malaga para la
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cabina Knoblauch Sri Lanka honest on my
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hearing and pata Negra Sudan shadow on
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my Appa I’ve not made it I’m making it
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and I’ll never stop the war for I’m
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always chasing it wait a minute
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I don’t play labels what does that say
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oh don’t play tags
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the label is better stay back when I’m
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here I don’t need to brag or compensate
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thinking about how I act I’m off stages
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I’m all phases the waterfall a stainless
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well I’m that in the background do you
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why because it feels right as if we
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don’t have the right to be angry in a
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way that evolved naturally well known
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for being aggressive
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and where does it happen through a
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tongue and dialect on our skin desert
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I fear we are not safe
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[Music]
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[Music]
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you
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[Music]
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you
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