Gabriel Teodros - If They Come For Me In The Morning... (feat. Aisha Fukushima)
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🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Teodros - "If They Come for Me in the Morning... (feat. Aisha Fukushima)" from the 2020 self-released album What We Leave Behind.
Seattle artist (and KEXP DJ) Gabriel Teodros celebrates the 20th anniversary of his first solo show at Rainier Valley Cultural Center with this new collection of previously unreleased tracks, "with a few new songs recorded specifically for this project," he adds, continuing, "Wanted to give y'all something special for all the love you've given me these past few decades. There's a completely new album coming this year as well... but for now you can enjoy these lost tapes."
Today's KEXP Song of the Day was originally written and recorded in 2015, inspired by Sandra Bland, letters between Angela Davis and James Baldwin, and the 400+ year legacy of Black freedom fighters. Public speaker, educator, singer, and 'RAPtivist' (rap activist) Aisha Fukushima appears on guest vocals.
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| 0:00.0 | Dear future, you were not supposed to make you. |
| 0:13.0 | Some of us believe that you could. |
| 0:15.0 | And we change reality so you would. |
| 0:18.0 | Now it's your turn. |
| 0:20.0 | Contraband Body, soul in the audio, underground railroad flow with the river, |
| 0:26.0 | God's gonna trouble the spirit dancing and mind gone free. |
| 0:30.0 | We still can't breathe, everything we know of home we've been forced to leave travel like ready to go |
| 0:34.8 | distinctively we are all still running like thieves in the night following the North |
| 0:39.5 | star we got away with our lives for every time we were told we would not survive and then rose from the ashes and see new heights. |
| 0:46.3 | Harriet Tubman Phoenix, Reborn with a mic, unconfined by time shotgun it decide. |
| 0:51.4 | We will rewrite tomorrow to defend Black life these are lyrics for the days that happen after the fight worth more than a favorite or a clicker of like when they capture your body but you got freedom of mind If I mysteriously die God, I know that my spirit would fight. |
| 1:04.0 | If I die in custody, it was not a suicide. |
| 1:07.0 | If they kill me for my voice, know that my soul is all right. |
| 1:09.0 | If they take me in the morning to comfort you by night. |
| 1:12.0 | So be ready to fight if they take me in the |
| 1:15.3 | morning to comfort you by night so be ready to fight |
| 1:20.8 | from me a sooniata a side of the move, nine, and anybody anywhere that had to serve hard time. |
| 1:27.0 | I don't even care if you committed a crime. They can't justify how they dehumanize it. |
| 1:32.0 | Torture our folks behind enemy lines media |
| 1:35.1 | fills them with fear so they believe these lies like it's rehabilitation and not a |
| 1:39.2 | plantation take one trip north and, have a look at Angola. |
| 1:42.6 | It is pre-civil war south happening right now. |
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