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DEATH BY LONGITUDE Lyrics by Moor Mother

The Great Bailout

2024

What do we say of Barbados?
What do we say of Jamaica?
Europe is God
And everything else is the Devil
Everything else is the Devil
Everything
The Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, the Americans
And here we are
God and the Devil hand in hand
Husband and bride, father and son
And Victoria
And Victoria in her death-hearts
Death ship, death-ism
Death by longitude, death by the Atlantic
All aboard (all aboard)
All aboard (all aboard)
All aboard, death camps in Bristol
What еlse do we call it?
Death ships in London
Chuckеd down in the galley
Chucked down in the galley
All aboard
In Aberdeen, in Plymouth, (?)
Chucked down in the galley
In seeing the frozen dead
Leading captains through tombs
Of fortune and salvation
There's no need to time-travel here
Europe an empty salt-mine
An empty salt-mine before they put twenty million pounds
Twenty million pounds, twenty million pounds
On your head
On your head (twenty million pounds on your head)
Sixty-five billion pounds
Sixty-five billion pounds, sixty-five billion pounds on your head?
Sixty-five billion pounds on your head (on your head)
Do you hear the bells?
Do you see the King?
Forty-six thousand British slave owners, bailout
Bailouts
Bailouts, bailouts, bailouts
Compensating for losing property
Whose property?
Whose props?
Whose material?
Do you hear the bells?
Do you see the King?
Forty-six thousand British slave owners, bailout
Bailout, bailouts, bailout, bailout
From losing all humanity, all mind, all dignity
Compensated emancipation
Whose freedom?
And who's gonna remove the sickness from minds, who's gonna remove us of the stints of anti-blackness?
Loud, disoriented, foul, rancid
And there's no place to escape it
No space (no space)
Total annihilation
Infiltration of what is, and who builds death like this?
Who builds death like this?
(The Devil, Devil)
Who builds death like this?
(Who builds death like this?)
Credits
Moor Mother

Moor Mother

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