Dusk, The Black Sun

Awaken

A day to celebrate this wonderful instrument:
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Flint Flakes

My latest single First Day of Spring. Really excited about this one, my sister and I sing. Listen on spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3fw4ZhyHF3jmQYWNQeoHIj?si=sr8suMtIQfWtTwPlK02dKw

Lyrics:

It’s the first day of spring as the humming birds do sing
and the sun breaks through the sky like shattered glass
now the winter may seem long but the April sun is strong
and the things we thought we knew now come to pass
and we hope for brighter times just as day and night entwine
and we forget our crimes

Now you’ve carried on your sins oh how they must sting
they’re now running of your skin like melted snow
who knew forgiveness was so hard without love and high regard
yet every seed buried deep does come to grow
without sorrow without cries though its to dark for human eyes
standing silent like the truth among lies

And now that you are gone and I am back where I belong
every day that comes to me does seem so long
and I am lonely as can be there’s no one watching over me
every stranger with a promise just moves on
and I’m now a broken thin and echo in the wind
when I was born to be a king

First Day of Spring

First Day Of Spring

music . The Fudge Nutz @helenswambo
Instrumental "Extinct rhythm-----Twice Zero Zero"
https://soundcloud.com/helenswambo/extinct-rhythm-twice-zero-zero

partial lyrics, vocals, sample mix, cover design . Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

Features vocal samples from this documentary "Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics" https://www.nfb.ca/film/whos_counting/

Cover Photo is of author Fauzia Rafique  @uddari
meditating outside the shrine of Bulleh Shah in Karachi, Pakistan
https://gandholi.wordpress.com

A COST
“The system was developed by John Maynard Canes and Richard Stone, based on a pamphlet they wrote called, literally, The British National Income & How to Pay for the War, and this became the basis of national income accounting.

...the more that you smoke cigarettes or the more that you have automobile accidents the more growth increases.

... National Income Accounting.

… we’ve just contributed to the national income of the country…

… Stone was then recruited by the new United Nation’s organization.

…. I would kind of consider that a debit in my account - a cost not a benefit. National Income accounting doesn’t have a debit side, as long as the activity passes through the market, its good for growth!

…. by 1953, that set of rules was imposed on every country. Its called the United Nation’s System of National Accounts… all nations must conform to these rules of economic measurements or they cannot belong to the United Nations.

Important decisions are made with these figures, decisions which will determines who’s needs are met first, decisions on killing the planet, decisions on who will live, or die. These measurements do not include everything, they are highly selective.

So what is included and excluded in this system? The system includes everything that goes through the market place. 

… You know, I would kind of consider that a debit in my account, a cost, not a benefit!”

> its a game, all twisted, it’s all illusion, and you twist me, all illusion<

“… this means that there is no value to peace … this means that there is no value to the preservation of natural resources for future generations… this means there is no value to unpaid work, including the unpaid work of reproducing human life itself, including the unpaid work of women who feed and nurture their own families.”

> we’re gonna take it down, we’re gonna take it down, this is a construct, we’re gonna take it down. this construct, we gonna take it down. we’re gonna take it down. border, border, this construct we gonna take it down<

“this an economic system that can eventually kill us all”

> we’re gonna take it down, i live and breathe, this construct, we’re gonna take it down, what’s a borders, take a hold on me, border border, take it down, i am the construct, take it down, border, we gonna take it down, i am the construct borders<

>history, history, show me your time, breath of soul, oh all that they build for us is lies, body of clay, history, breathe of soul, time, breathe of soul, ill be singing from a cage, tell you of rage, breathe of soul, work it in your favour, breath of soul, we’re gonna take it down, your desperation, hopelessness, your desperation, helplessness, we’re gonna take it down.<

A clever bird: builds a nest to protect all of us!*

>take it down, this economic system! this economic system<

“...that death, homelessness, injury, poverty and starvation caused by the use of these weapons is not even registered as a deficit!”

>It’s going down!!!! we’re gonna take it down, we gonna take it down.
Yay dekhay gay to! (they shall see then! / when they will see.)<

“A Cost!”

>Yay dekhay gay to! Yay dekhay gay to.<

“Not a benefit!”

>Yay, this economic system, yay, is going down, dekhay gay to!<

“Not a benefit!”

>Yay dekhay gay to! Down! Going Down! Down!<

>Body of clay, breath of soul<

>we're gonna take it down, we're gonna take it down<

*this line is based on a Zimbabwean proverb in Shona

Flint Flakes

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