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Convict Colony Lyrics
i was born
in a convict colony
and i was torn
from the land
that mothered me
mother may i
she says 'yes you may'
well, today i
i say right here today
you're a convict colony
if you're running
from the sun
you're a convict colony
a convict colony
and you don't really want it
i was birthed
from the earth
fought my way
to this day
now i'm grown
truth be told
i'll be here
'til you're gone
you're a convict colony
if you're running
from the sun
you're a convict colony
you're reaching
for your gun
you're a convict colony
if you're running
from the sun
you're a convict colony
a convict colony
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want
in a convict colony
and i was torn
from the land
that mothered me
mother may i
well, today i
i say right here today
if you're running
from the sun
a convict colony
and you don't really want it
from the earth
fought my way
to this day
truth be told
i'll be here
'til you're gone
if you're running
from the sun
you're reaching
for your gun
if you're running
from the sun
a convict colony
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want it
and you don't really want
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This was the first collaborative effort between Trent and I. He sent a cd of 14 tracks to my hotel in Sydney as I was there doing 5 nights of poetry at the Opera House as part of the Sydney Arts Festival. When I first listened to the tracks I didn't like any of them (Trent doesn't know this. Hi Trent:). I didn't dislike them, but nothing hit me over the head. I felt like I could tell if there was something he wrote with me in mind or something that was left over from his previous work. I thought all of the tracks needed some serious "pimp my ride" sort of hacking in order for them to appeal to my musical sensibility. The people at echoingthesound.com will probably burn me for this, but I remember listening to that cd for the first time and thinking "oh, how cute". Obviously the tracks grew on me, and in me, in major ways, but it did take a minute. I had a lot of openning up to do. And that's what I was looking forward to doing in this collaboration.... The beat that I jacked for Convict came from about the 10th track. I wasn't traveling with my equipment and my idea for the track was to confusing to explain to CX so I kept my musical idea in my head and started writing the lyrics. Obviously, Australia is a Convict Colony. In my estimation so is the US and few other "allies". I was mad at the lack of Aboriginal people I was seeing out and about Sydney. The projects in RedFern looked exactly like the projects I grew up around, with people getting high or drunk on the stairwells, hanging clothes to dry out the window etc. I even had a bunch Aboriginal kids walk up to me and tell me excitedly that they were Niggers too. I wanted to write something they could scream at the top of their lungs. The synth line I did myself at home which Trent later retouched before we started replacing sounds with Cazoos. Drumwise, there wasn't as much movement or complexity in my original demo. Trent and Atticus taught me and CX some secrets. It was cool how they would show us how we could finesse it, then sit back and let us do it. Very ninja-ish. -Saul Williams http://www.saulwilliams.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=002361