The Bear / Coltan As Cotton - Saul Williams

How can I describe it?

It’s a feeling

That no one would talk about, but everybody knows

How to get inside it and reveal it

When pain is the government that governs the unknown

When the bear comes from the mountain

With it’s teeth and claws exposed

And the girl who cries is justified

As everybody knows

And the soldiers sing the chorus

And the chorus marks a sign

Where dollar signs are all unaligned with every war and crime

How can I describe it?

It’s a feeling

That no one would talk about, but everybody knows

How to get inside it and reveal it

When pain is the government that governs the unknown

When the blood falls from the trumpet

And the music fills the streets

And the ones who cry are justified

And suffer from defeat

And the soldiers sing the chorus

And the chorus marks a sign

When our designs are underlined

With every war and crime

How can I describe it?

It’s a feeling

That no one would talk about, but everybody knows

Hack into dietary sustenance

Tradition versus health

Hack into comfort compliance

Hack into the rebellious gene

Hack into doctrine

Capitalism, the relation of free labor and slavery

Hack into the history of the bank

Is beating the odds the mere act of joining the winning team?

Hack into desperation and loneliness

The history of community and the marketplace

Hack into land rights and ownership

Hack into business, law of proprietorship

Hack into ambition and greed

Hack into forms of government

The history of revolutions

The relation of suffering and sufferance

Hack into faith and morality

The treatment of one faith towards another

Hack into masculinity, femininity, sexuality

What is taught, what is felt, what is learned, what is shared

Hack into God

Stories of creation, serpents and eggs

Hack into coincidence

The Summer of '68

The 27th club

The number of people with Facebook profiles

People who choose to share

People who share too much

People who seem lonely

People who want to connect

People who want to uplift

People who need uplifting

Three simple copper wires coiled around an orb

Parked in an orbit

Equatorial landmines, useful and precious metals

Coltan as Cotton

Coltan as Colton as Cotton (x4)

Hack into whores

Industrial, digital

Hack into code

Use your instrument as metaphor

Hallowed to the ground, type into the mainframe

Dismantle definition, dogma and duty

Hack into the database

Hold it in the subconscious

The panel marked «survival»

Hack into celebrity

Hack into the cultural development of taste

Hack into violence, fear, and ignorance

How are they linked?