UTOPIA from LABUAD MEKLOOQ by mirrored fatality

a catharsis tool highlighting the anger of existing in an unjust society. we know we cannot stay hopeless, so we must destroy systems that have never served the people and our earth. UTOPIA creates a moment for us to be angry so we can inspire each other to break the norms that society forces onto us, release our anger at these injustices, and bravely instead create our own moments of freedom - together. we recognize how both mindanao and kashmir are heavily militarized by the fascist governments of both india and philippines so we weaponize our song utopia as a way to create alliances and solidarity globally to uplift their resistance by mobilizing direct actions through bridging our beloved community of artists, organizers, and educators.

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4.	UTOPIA	5:28

Lyrics

a dystopia, trailing behind us
breathing on our necks
suffocating our senses,
crushing our shoulders with hopeful obliteration

but lately, it stares straight into my third eye,
focusing on my energies as a scarlet target
shooting daggers of paralysis
begging us to stop.

why envision the
jet black and smoldering
artificially intelligent and infertile
apocalyptic and ruthless
future?

can’t you see?
the dystopia is flying above us.
polluting our minds,
pushing against us.
demanding our hopelessness.

dismantle
burn
build yourself
build yourself
remember to renew
remember to renew

dismantle
burn
build
remove the western 21st century
remove the western 21st century

see this toxic force field
transcend the toxic force field

look us in the eye
look us in the eye

do you really want to be a winner here?
do you really want to be a winner here?

do you see? do you see?

look around
look around
look each other in the eye
look each other in the eye

circle around
circle around
circle around
circle around
circle around
circle around

they can’t reach us here
even when we leave here
they can’t reach us here
even when we leave here

even when we’re not here
even when we’re not here
even when we’re not here
even when we’re not here

death drive
death drive
death drive
death drive
death drive
death drive

pushing us deeper into the holes
sending signals of a void
deep desires waiting to be saturated
moving us into entropy, into chaos, into demons
jaunting us

haints that corner us
haunt us
haints
haunt us
haints
haunt us
haints

subversion or reversion
welcoming shadows
stopping demons
haunting us
clawing our gray matter
turning us into dust
and decay

blue screen
blue screen
blue screen
blue screen
blue screen
blue screen

corrupt
systems
produce
clones

who are we?

glitches
mistakes
failures
cyber
terrorists
terrorizing
whiteness
brown
computer
viruses

hidden
in the
shadows
we feel claws
digging into our skin
but we will not succumb
we will not be lost

existence, reduction,
existence, reduction

amulets of protection
to keep us from
the approaching chaos
fuck white supremacy
fuck settler colonialism
fuck the policing of queer trans black indigenous people of color bodies
fuck patriarchy
fuck capitalism
fuck ableism
fuck fascism
fuck climate change
and the way it doesn’t teach us how to take care of each other ourselves and the multiverse

we will not succumb
we will only destroy
will you destroy with us?!

Credits

from LABUAD MEKLOOQ, released July 27, 2024
written, produced, mixed, and recorded by mirrored fatality
mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air
album art by mirrored fatality

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