Cow Tools - Keeper of Hands
By Cow Tools on August 24, 2024 4:59 am
Original music by Nyarlos: https://weeklybeats.com/nyarlos/music/marked-for-time
Lyrics and vocals by me. Minimal effects.
Inspired by one of the darkest events of human history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State
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Keeper of Hands
Blood and Bones
Severed Hands
Abuse the People
Destroy the Land
Go into the jungle
climb up in the trees
Harvest our supplies
NEVER ENOUGH
Pay them in salt
Pay them in beads
So generous
WE GIVE TOO MUCH
The weak are tortured and killed
To ensure next week's quotas are filled
Ten men in a net, thrown in the the river
Until everyone understands
Forcing the men to rape their own mothers
Forcing the sisters to kill their own brothers
Bodies hung in the shape of a cross
I am the keeper of hands....
I------- have lost all I hold dear
and I----- no longer fear
The abandonment of hope; my last remaining skill
and I------ no longer feel
We are so proud of the progress we've made
Hanging the heads along the palisade
Teaching the savages how to behave
Reminding them that there is nothing to save
Our country, grows strong
Our people, live well
Our profits, are always rising
Our product, always for sale
And for those who claim to suffer
I recall no such thing
We've given them, the gift
of civility
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