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In More Modest Terms Lyrics by Tanatswa Estina.

Autonomy

2024

[Verse 1]
Keep your heart clean
From any instinctual hope or fear
Close your head
Check
Close your legs
Check
Close your bed
Check
Until it’s time to
Give us your bodies
(The children, the children
Just think of the children
The children, the children
Just think of the children)
[Chorus 1]
We were told in more modest terms
We were told in more modest terms
That they would save us
And we would be free
Now we survive as we're told
And they'll tell us to give everything
We don't even have us
We just do as you're told
(The children, the children
Just think of the children
The children, we'll kill them
Don't bring up the children)
[Verse 2]
Your blood will wash our sins away
If there's no one left
No one can bear witness
The poor will wash our sins away
From your all deaths
We'll double our interest
[Chorus 2]
We were told in more modest terms
We were told in more modest terms
That they would save us
And we would be free
Now you survive as you're told
And they'll tell us to give everything
You don't even have you
You just do as you're
Told
[Outro]
The children, the children
Just think of the children
Your lives and your people
More bodies, we need them
Katrina to Haiti
From Congo to Gaza
Just shut up, we'll starve you
Don't bring up the children
Shh!
Credits
Tanatswa Estina.

Tanatswa Estina.

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"In More Modest Terms" appears on "Autonomy" in 2024.

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