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We wrote this about queer discovery & being repressed as kids in church. Our rainbow prayer is to heal from the oppressions we face as queer people of colour, (intensified by the pandemic) by giving & receiving community care, and attaining self-acceptance. We pray for queer people worldwide, not the homophobic version of God we were taught growing up. Pollen & Dopamine would be great playlist fits.
Sad China has been featured in Exclaim! and is a non-binary 2023 Women In Music Canada Honouree.

LYRICS:

Ur in my heart
Not god but something more
Not man and not a war
I’m here

Praying to the moon
For the world to get better soon
My eyes are never dry
I see through our tears

Praying [x8]

Not a war, not god
For the world, not god

Praying [x8] 

Not a war, not god
For the world, not god

After meals were praise after praise
Droning racket in my mind just like a haze
Found another undercover, also hooked up with God
My bare-chested roommate had me lusting, no façade

Fit brainiac bathed in broad daylight
Body gleaming, temptation filled my eyes
Got bacne, wears glasses, but he’s still super hot-
[If I confessed what’s in my heart, I’d be exorcized on the spot]


They don’t fill our hunger
They can’t give us peace
They only sell an image
That we can’t achieve

[Praying
Not a war, not god
For the world, not god

Praying
Not a war, not god
For the world, not god]

Scavenger hunts for quote notes out of the Bible
(not a war, not god)
Forest all around was divinity unentitled

Frenzied prayer, willing the divine
And my brown queer mind knows it’s all inside:
the love and the shame that it melts with a wish,
to alchemize fear into the sparks of a switch.

I know your fears, homophobe/”all alone”:
see us in your mirror,
Let us whisper songs all round the globe:
We can free your soul, you know,
and you’ll love yourself… crystalline clearer.

 and now you got me [praying…]

‘cause-

They don’t fill our hunger
They can’t give us peace
They only sell an image
That we can’t achieve

(Background vox, + 8ve )
 (Ur in my heart
Not god but something more
Not man and not a war
I’m here)

Circled around a dusked dome adorned with roses,
Existence no longer a sin, we enter…  acceptance

White-robed and walking through a lanterned path 
Angels baptized my feet bared like I was Sabbath

Man… Chef couldn’t even just cook that tofu right
just browned it on the surface, oh god what awful sights
I had to eat nutritional yeast on a tostada… like what???

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RAINBOW PRAYER feat. Sad China

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This song is a hypnotic journey into the underworld, abruptly interrupted by its own lack of cadence and resolution. Inspired by a surreal dream sequence of a fenced off forest and a hologram of plants rapidly sprouting their filament roots at my face (making me scream). This song is a warning to my future self to not allow myself to be stripped of my gifts by the music and creative industries; to stay rooted in my unique voice. Let go of the vined thresholds, ascend towards the gates of inner potential.

chords - Ebsus2, Fm

Lyrics:

verse 1:

tell me, are these dreamscapes in my head
dripping with some truth i’ve yet to have read?

they peel me so sweet as tangerines,
drip down my face with bleeding veins.

. 
verse 2:

I can hear you calling my name,
I can hear you, calling my song.

I can’t hear your face, so far away
I can’t see your name, may be a mistake…

.
refrain 1:

Yeah my name, it
might be a mistake...


and,
in my home, I
feel so out of place.

.

chorus 1:

All these vined thresholds
They hold me so close, smother my cradle,
[can’t leave me for dead.]

All my vined thresholds
I burst/burn through their fence, 
run towards the gates…
			refrain 2:
away from her gaze.
away from her, 	gaze.
pre-bridge:
i’m
refraining up hilled inclines,
back turned to green gate vines,
running towards the fenced woods, i’m
belting  like unsung  bassoons		[to unsleep.]

.

bridge 1:

I don’t wanna change,
blockage in the strain,
smartphone on a stage,
pumping me with rage:		[fear]

soil flatlined on blank skies,
rowed like corporate coke lines
sprout orange, yellow, red kale leaves
plants alien like Mc D’s

ivory roots of tendrils; i scream;
reaching at me through shiny coal screens.		 [pumped with rage, i mean fear, i mean—]

.

chorus 2:
all these vined thresholds
hold me so close, smother my cradle,
				can’t leave me for dead.
l
chant: 

Just let me know, always be there for
Just let me know, always be there for
Just let me know, always be there for you
Just sign your name so I sing through your throat.
[can’t leave me for dead.]//[ivory roots of tendrils; i scream;
reaching at me through coal screens.]

.
chorus 3/chant:

Just let me know, always be there for you
(all these vined thresholds)
Just let me know, always be there for you
(choking my mind-core)
Just let me know, always be there for...
(I can hear you calling my name, I can hear you, calling my song.)

outro:
think I can’t breathe by the way you choke, i
think I can’t breathe by the way you choke		me.

MUERTXS - EP

VINED THRESHOLDS

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LYRICS:

pure purge on a splurge with an urge to demigod
the shit i been holding the back of my throat, been HOLDIN OUT on god
 
like GODDAMN, the sun’s knocking my tongue like Jev Witness
like GODDAMN the moon running laps like  Nike Fitness 

like sunday choirs echoing through an empty cathedral like 
god how could you gift me all this joy and no pain to carry it with either

god why would you clear my throat, can't choke on my spit anymore, 
sun and moon waltzing on my tongue,  purging trauma outta the door    [swallowed]

before my body - become choir to / the hymns of / my unhaunted memories 

purity clarified
dewdrops in hurricanes,
megaquake shatterin’

skyscrape-thoughts forgotten!

post purge of inkpages
spilling over your eardrums 

like what you got to say 
when those bells stop ringing 

when that cathedral is joy when 
god’s a hymn bellowing 
your most unholy sacrilege?

GODDAMN prayers,
all of your haters be 
“love you laters”
all of my witnesses
they own saviors
all of our beings be
divine leaders,
DEMON SLAYERS!

GODDAMN! [pure purge]

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"New Year, Same Shit" questions the concept of "new  year new me". It asks the listener to reflect on the resolutions they've made, and hold themselves accountable. It emphasizes that life is temporary, and if you want to achieve your goals, then "you gotta give up what you're not". Recording this harmonic song in my closet and belting my heart out gave me pure joy. 

LYRICS:

New year, same shit!
Let’s do this! Resolutions ain’t shit without accountability.

 All those solutions for all your resolutions,
Where they at, where they at? (tell me)

I’m Hector F  Castaneda of Dog Days Are Over, 	 
welcome to my world.	

 All those solutions for all your resolutions,
Where they at, where they at? (tell me)	

Verse:

If this life's not special,
Then my breath is blasphemy.
 All those solutions for all your resolutions,
Where they at, where they at? (tell me)

If this life’s not eternal,
Then my breath is most holy.
 All those solutions for all your resolutions,
Where they at, where they at? (tell me)

Hook:

You said new year new me,
But you still on that same shit
You on that new year, same shit, same shit
I’m rising wavelengths, droppin' hit after hit, yo

You said new year new me,
But you still on that same shit
You on that new year, same shit, same shit
I’m rising wavelengths, droppin' hit after hit, yo

Verse 2:

I’m always being reborn, destiny
This isn’t tied to your 2023.
All those solutions for all your resolutions,
Where they at, where they at? (they within)

I’m sometimes feeling unborn, unhappily
I let go and I breathe on my knees.
All those solutions for all your resolutions,
Where they at, where they at? (they within)
  

Hook:
You said new year new me,
But you still on that same shit
You on that new year, same shit, same shit
I’m rising wavelengths, droppin' hit after hit, yo

You said new year new me,
But you still on that same shit
You on that new year, same shit, same shit
I’m rising wavelengths, droppin' hit after hit, yo

Bridge:

If you tryna grow shit
Then give it all you got
If you’re gonna go big
You gotta give up what you’re not

Said if I’m tryna grow shit
Then I’ll give it all I got
If I’m gonna go big
Then I’ll give up what I’m not

This life’s a huge present
So you better hold it close
If you’re gonna transcend
You gotta firework and explode

This life’s one huge presence
So I better hold it close
If I’m gonna transcend
I gotta firework and explode~

If I’m gonna transcend
I gotta firework and explode~

Outro:

Where they at, where they at, where they at, yeah
Where they at, where they at?

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NEW YEAR, SAME SHIT

NEW YEAR, SAME SHIT (prod. SevenOh!3 Sounds)

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SILENCE IS VIOLENCE. SHHH.

WOO-AAH!
AAH-WOO!

Love you, Kim Petras!

SILENCE IS VIOLENCE

my first romantic song about dreaming with a loved one 🦋🌌💛🌀✨
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-LYRICS-

Verse 1:

You tell me you’re wide awake
With nothing else to say, to say

You give me that glare you seek
With everything to pray for today

I gave you my heart away,
you nest it over broken family

Chorus:

But boy, your presence is butterflies,
A winged bed rising past each sky

And both our bodies slowly rising,
We break spheres while dreaming…

Oh, his presence is butterflies,
A winged bed rising past each sky

And both our bodies slowly rising,
We break spheres while drea		ming…


Refrain:

We’re dreaaaaaamin…
We’re dreaaaaaamin…

Verse 2:

Ya sabes que te extraño.
Yo te quiero aquí conmigo.
Llamame de entre las nubes.
Y pronto regresare a tierra.

Chorus:

Boy, your presence is butterflies,
A winged bed rising past each sky

And both our bodies slowly rising,
We break spheres while dreaming

Chico, 
tu presencia es mariposas
Cama-angel flotando por cielos

Y nuestros cuerpos suben despacio
Quebramos esferas mientras soñamos…

You tell me you’re wide awake
With nothing else to—

BUTTERFLY DREAMS

butterfly dreams (winged presence)

butterfly dreams (winged presence) - prod. Tennessee Tina

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My first light language song. BACHUNA ESA, BAKTURE BAKANA EH.

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BACHUNA ESA (Madre Pachamama) feat. Ametaphor

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Oracularity is a celebration of rebirth and renewal, where an intuitive knocking in the distance inspires me to tap into the ancestral and spiritual energy within myself, allowing me to explore the mysteries of creation and the universe. “I am every nothing that brought me here… death is nothing but a vein collapsing into a root system”.

The poem speaks about rebirth and the internal transformation one can experience through ritual and reflection, embracing the energy of ancestors and descendants to break free from the limitations of the past and embrace the creative potential of the present moment.

LYRICS: in the distance i hear a knocking and it does not make me cower like my mother’s knuckleknocks it cradles the internality of my forehead and sparks, catalyzes its inner uncrucifying from the body it held onto so tight for so long for so many centuries, the way the light glints at its own reflection it glistens and gleams into god’s last dream dissolved onto the mouths of his disciples during his last supper, supper is just a synonym for “rite of passage for slumber” and so in the thesaurus of my mind, my every stomached meal becomes a ritual becomes the inversion of sacramented eucharist and my every ancestor awakens from the grave of my innermind mausoleum and they chant in harmonies stacked like summits birthing other mountains on top of themselves and in this way i am reborn like i always am, everyday this ceremony blesses my skin with the alive of my pulse and i tap my wrists in awe at their organic machinery and how my breath is the summary of my well-being and how many bodies have died in the name of unjust sacrilege and how the priest never forgives sinners within the depths of his lockboxed chest and isn’t lockbox just a man’s way of imprisoning what he knows can set fire to his skyscrapers, like his sky suddenly scraping itself into the multiplicity of a black hole’s singularity until his ego crumbles back into the stardust that birthed it like how a mother could unbirth their child at any moment but does not and thus the undoing becomes the holy and thus i am undone until i am nothing but a ball of light floating incandescent in the hands of God, telling my father that God had something special in mind when he decided to emerge me from the shadows of what should have never been born, my mother’s birth canal was too narrow, my cranium too large, to this day i’ve had to constantly allow ancestral and descendant energies to cradle me out from narrow birthcanals each time i’m reborn and this channeling and everything but a death and death is nothing but a vein collapsing into a root system, and i am every nothing that brought me here to breathe myself into existence until i resurrect every choir the preacher deemed too revolutionary too potent too earthquake and so i paint a self-portrait each time enough of my cells invert themselves into near-irrecognition and my cognition expands beyond the [tele-]scope of the previously impossible and possibility becomes but a crystalline sphere within my grasp and i sigh at how closed eyes could channel a river through their forehead as well, all they have to do is sit in a field of bullets and neuron and bone and blood [and clay] and metal and fire and webs and mirrors and kaleidoscopes and listen and listen and listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen listen

ORACULARITY

ORACULRITY

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ORACULARITY prod. Hector the Alchemist

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We wrote this about queer discovery & being repressed as kids in church. Our rainbow prayer is to heal from the oppressions we face as queer people of colour, (intensified by the pandemic) by giving & receiving community care, and attaining self-acceptance. We pray for queer people worldwide, not the homophobic version of God we were taught growing up. Pollen & Dopamine would be great playlist fits.
Sad China has been featured in Exclaim! and is a non-binary 2023 Women In Music Canada Honouree.

LYRICS:

Ur in my heart
Not god but something more
Not man and not a war
I’m here

Praying to the moon
For the world to get better soon
My eyes are never dry
I see through our tears

Praying [x8]

Not a war, not god
For the world, not god

Praying [x8] 

Not a war, not god
For the world, not god

After meals were praise after praise
Droning racket in my mind just like a haze
Found another undercover, also hooked up with God
My bare-chested roommate had me lusting, no façade

Fit brainiac bathed in broad daylight
Body gleaming, temptation filled my eyes
Got bacne, wears glasses, but he’s still super hot-
[If I confessed what’s in my heart, I’d be exorcized on the spot]


They don’t fill our hunger
They can’t give us peace
They only sell an image
That we can’t achieve

[Praying
Not a war, not god
For the world, not god

Praying
Not a war, not god
For the world, not god]

Scavenger hunts for quote notes out of the Bible
(not a war, not god)
Forest all around was divinity unentitled

Frenzied prayer, willing the divine
And my brown queer mind knows it’s all inside:
the love and the shame that it melts with a wish,
to alchemize fear into the sparks of a switch.

I know your fears, homophobe/”all alone”:
see us in your mirror,
Let us whisper songs all round the globe:
We can free your soul, you know,
and you’ll love yourself… crystalline clearer.

 and now you got me [praying…]

‘cause-

They don’t fill our hunger
They can’t give us peace
They only sell an image
That we can’t achieve

(Background vox, + 8ve )
 (Ur in my heart
Not god but something more
Not man and not a war
I’m here)

Circled around a dusked dome adorned with roses,
Existence no longer a sin, we enter…  acceptance

White-robed and walking through a lanterned path 
Angels baptized my feet bared like I was Sabbath

Man… Chef couldn’t even just cook that tofu right
just browned it on the surface, oh god what awful sights
I had to eat nutritional yeast on a tostada… like what???

Rainbow Prayer (Instrumental)

Rainbow Prayer feat. Sad China (Instrumental)

Rainbow Prayer

Rainbow Prayer feat. Sad China

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Dive into the neoclassical pop enchantment of 'Euphoria.' This ballad seamlessly merges classical grace with modern vigor, building to a euphoric climax with drums and electric guitar. 
Let 'Euphoria' elevate your musical experience. 

LYRICS:

Euphoria / divinity
Takes over me / exhale, relieve
And now I see / And I feel free
Chromaticity / Deep clarity

My soul feels / Look through me
Soigné / Darling

Body glowing softly

Euphoria
Is all I need
This moment here:
All that exists.
Introspirit fluorescence
Norepinephrine

Naïveté

To dopamine I pray

Chorus:
Do you feel it, 
Body transmits
Placid fruition
Lucid intuition
Conscious unconsciousness, oh

Oh I feel it
Aura turns ambience:
Red, blue, green, ianthine
Adenine to thymine
Cytosine to guanine
[Purine and pyrimidine]

credits: vocal tuning and coaching by: @ametaphormusic
music, mixing, art: Hector the Alchemist

EUPHORIA

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RAINBOW PRAYER feat. Sad China

Hector the Alchemist (dog days are over)