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Maybe I Can't Sing

by Helene Augustine

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March 2019 song, recorded in home studio. Based on a true story!

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Maybe I Can't Sing, But I Can Scream

Maybe i can't sing, but i can scream
Maybe i'm not white, I'm green
Maybe i can't talk, but i can listen
Listen, listen, listen
To the birds and the bees
Listen, listen, listen
To what they need

Maybe i can't walk, but i can fly
Look down at all of us from the sky
And without understanding why
See what has happened to the land
What a strange plan
Who planned this strange plan?
Who's it benefiting?
A very very small number
Of sick white men
That's strange to me
We can do better
We are a more integrated family

Divine, not divided
Divine, not divisive

Sacred, sacred
Only wanna stay near it
Only wanna stay near it
Every human child
Sacred
Every wild thing
Sacred
You know it is
Sacred

So what happens when our world is desecrated
We don't need to
Stand for that anymore!

Why you think I got my eyes on the back of my head
I am watching you
I got eyes on the back of my head
I am watching you

There's a reason I do what I do
It's strange and eccentric
It makes very little sense at all
And really no money at all
But I do what I do cuz I dont have a choice
I am working for someone something this whole other thing
Is my offering
And my boss
I answer to the Goddess

Lucky enough to really know
She's around
It's around
They are around
Who knows all the different sounds
They make
Woman man boy girl make no mistake
We are all one
We are all two
We are all three

What will we, what will we do?

Maybe I will bury my head in the sand
Maybe I'm doing that right now from where I stand
But when I do that
I only get closer
To the sound of the earth
Crying out
Crying out
Crying out!

Maybe I can't sing, but I can scream
About all of these things
I can scream!

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released April 12, 2019

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Helene Augustine Virginia

A way to channel the never-ending rush of rhyme and melody. A musical project for the visual artist Jennifer Nagle Myers. Explorations following the continuous line from ancient to future, our own inherent collective and personal queerness, liberation, voice, piano, communication, communing. Good spirit. Look for all ways to express love and sending out the signal that art is all this and more. ... more

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