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This One's for Skylar

from ICON LIVID by Z the Stranger

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I wish you the best, Skylar! I love you!

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2020 has just been the worst. So much absolutely terrible shit has happened in like...in like the first half of this year. The first half of this turn of the decade. And people are still dying over bullshit. There's just so much going on.

It's the climate change. The World War 3. The bigotry. The hopelessness.
The world is fucked. The revolution's coming. I just know it is.
For every battle won, another's starting. It's an ouroboros.
All we try to do is figure it out. The endless cycle has us deep in it's mouth.
I understand the shit you speak about. I know I can't relate, but I can empathize
With the ones who always feel unsafe in public just because of the way they identify.
If there's anything at all that I can do to break the stigma now, well shit I'm gonna try.
I don't want to have to lose another guy, and I sympathize knowing that others died.
When I shout your name, it's a rallying cry. If it's change we want, then it's change we can make.
If the next generation makes the same mistakes, we'll fall further down a rabbit hole of anger and hate.
This storm outside has a silver lining.
When our family names make us feel divided
Sure it's bottom talk, but know it's alright
If you have to pause after a long night
We're all masc girls and femboys
We all need money, we get employed
It's been a cursed month in the echo chamber.
It's impossible to block all the noise
When you're spilling thoughts. You wish to be fine
As another layer of red lipstick dries
We won't greet death with a soft tongue. We're adamant to survive
So shout to Laura, Shout to SOPHIE, Shout to Dorian, Kim Petras
ContraPoints and Left at London. Everyone who sends that message.
I can march beside you now. My masculinity's a vestige.
I want to give you what you gave to me; a sense of respite.
I'll take part in the charities, the protests and the strikes
The battle isn't over. All I want is what is right.
Shout out to everyone in the community. All of us here share a likeness.
Most of all, shout out to Skylar. It's hard. I want to help fight this.

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

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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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