I don’t know if I can.
I don’t know what I need.
I can fake my plans.
I don’t know what comes next.
Where to start to rewrite
The words that pulled me apart.
I was raised to confiscate
The thoughts of a leader.
I don’t know if I’m deaf.
I don’t know if I can dream.
I can fake my thoughts.
I don’t know what comes next.
If I lied,
I don’t know the faculties I’ve denied.
I was raised to become a non-believer.
I don’t know, if I can pretend,
That I believe, I was born free.
If i could face my debt,
And live up to my Muslim name,
Surrender all my love and embrace
What comes next...
Face my debt, face my debt, (surrender).
Face my debt, face my debt
And live up to my, and live up to my
And live up, and live up, and live up to my…
I don’t know what you planned.
I don’t know how to pray.
I can take my chance.
I don’t know what comes next.
If my heart already knew
You had baited me from the start.
I was raised to become a non-believer.
I don’t know if I’m mad.
I don’t know who to blame.
I can trade my pain.
I don’t know what comes next.
If my heart already knew,
I was destined to fall apart.
Before I could become a devoted believer.
If i could face my debt,
And live up to my Muslim name,
Surrender all my love and embrace
What comes next...
Face my debt, face my debt, (surrender).
Face my debt, face my debt
And live up to my, and live up to my
And live up, and live up, and live up to my
Muslim name…
I don’t know if I can pretend
I was born free,
I was born free.
credits
from Selections from DUMB,
released August 4, 2017
Written/Recorded/Produced by HDLSS. Mastered by Yale Yng-Wong.
Expansive, turbulent electronic music from Reid Willis that imagines the cycles of “creation & destruction, beauty & violence.” Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 6, 2020