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Conscious Matter

from ICON LIVID by Z the Stranger

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There's plenty still to fight for. I'll be fighting alongside you. <3

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We've all been bruised and battered
Wondering what comes after
We can't just fight for ourselves
We're all just conscious matter
(What matters is the battle.
What matters is the will to fight instead of moving backwards.
What matters are the rights of the people who aren't ourselves.
The ones who try to live but only end up bruised and battered.
I wonder what comes after.)
All of us just conscious matter

As of writing this, I'm only months short of twenty years old.
What a time to think about mortality.
The fragile wall between everlasting nirvana and the illnesses I'm battling.
For years I've survived all my trials with ideation.
Plan Z always made it all seem worth the frustration,
But if I thought about the reality of the consequence
I'd panic and distract myself binging more Zero Punctuation.
Maybe it's not what I want; the repercussions prolific
Of going from a depressed moron to a statistic,
But depression can't be seen. It's like addiction or Fibro Myalgia.
I've witnessed all three present in a nicotine cloud of nostalgia.
For now, I'll just keep making albums 'til the day it happens.
Maybe make some beats for my kids just in case they start rapping.
Make them feel ten feet taller from six feet under.
For all the 26 sextillion conscious cells in the world, I still wonder
What matters.
What matters is the battle.
What matters is the will to fight instead of moving backwards.
What matters are the rights of the people who aren't ourselves.
The ones who try to live but only end up bruised and battered.
I wonder what comes after.
I pray that it's acceptance.
Yeah, real acceptance
Where everyone's accepted.
I'll do what I can to make that the course that we're headed.
Even if it means taking life in a new direction.
Right around this time is when I'd be dying. Breaking under all that I've tried.
Never have I lived to see the end of the ride.
I can't fight if I die, now could I?
For everyone and everything I love I will survive.
We're all just conscious matter.
Every person, young and old, rich or poor,
In the binary or not, we deserve the world and more.
If you're livid, stand up. You can make your voice heard,
But we are all unique icons. We're more than just our words.

We've all been bruised and battered
Wondering what comes after
We can't just fight for ourselves
We're all just conscious matter

What matters is the battle.
What matters is the will to fight instead of moving backwards.
What matters are the rights of the people who aren't ourselves.
The ones who try to live but only end up bruised and battered.
I wonder what comes after.
I pray that it's acceptance.
Yeah, real acceptance
Where everyone's accepted.
I'll do what I can to make that the course that we're headed.
Even if it means taking life in a new direction.
Right around this time is when I'd be dying. Breaking under all that I've tried.
Never have I lived to see the end of the ride.
I can't fight if I die, now could I?
For everyone and everything I love I will survive.
We're all just conscious matter.
Every person, young and old, rich or poor,
In the binary or not, we deserve the world and more.
If you're livid, stand up. You can make your voice heard,
But we are all unique icons. We're more than just our words.

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from ICON LIVID, released June 15, 2020
Production, writing, and vocals: Cameron Francisco

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Z the Stranger Rockland, Massachusetts

Allow for all to breathe air as clean as Eden. I will drown in the River Styx and keep the planet eternal, along with all the love in it. Your own beauty is yours and no one else's. I will inject the earth with the divine milk of a ghost's breast and the living will never go thirsty. I still remain a stranger to everyone. ... more

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