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Claudette Colvin (Single)

by Luther Burbank

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lyrics

don’t need to know to the nth degree before I attempt to be
a better version of the person that I was meant to be
that all of my empathy won’t lead me to entropy
revealing all the horrors I never was meant to see
i’m dreaming of flying cars and trying to live on mars
and building rocket ships that will convey me to distant stars
that light up the distant planets where life is emergent from static
beautiful glacial and tragic, starting with perfect calm and ending in magic

it’s the countdown, no turning back
and the corners of my vision are becoming black
undergoing a revision of my point of view
set for a course that was made for the chosen few
as a morse code auditory phantom
beeps out a random string like a scary story
and my soul takes wing rising from my chest
floating up to the sky for eternal rest

8 now i’m close to the outer gate
7 pushing out to the edge of fate
6 when you burn with the heretics
5 you return on a crucifix
4 if you want just a little more
3 if it bores you to keep score
2 then what else can you do
cause they all make fun til they know that you are the 1

is it a blessing or just a curse
the best thing or just the worst
to reach out and be the first, with arms wide open
don’t worry bout earthly fame
the universe knows your name, so carry the flame
i wanna be Claudette Colvin

all the way, hand in hand
we go on and on
in the the fray, we will stand
everyone upon

i was a manic depressive i was weak and aggressive
i was depressive and manic with a penchant for panic
with an obsessive compulsion and a sense of revulsion
for every transgression that spurred me on to deeper expression

but i now know what i must do
it’s as vivid as a pebble in my new shoe
i’m as livid as a rebel in defiance
and i think we should form an alliance
scions of the old ways with the cold gaze of the new science
trapped in the old maze of our old clients
who demand that we be quiet though we all wanna riot

blacksmiths in the hot forge
divers in the great gorge
mentors of the masters
pupils of the pastors
if you want just a little more
if it bores you to keep score
then what else can you do
cause they all make fun til they know that you are the 1

is it a blessing or just a curse
the best thing or just the worst
to reach out and be the first, with arms wide open
don’t worry bout earthly fame
the universe knows your name, so carry the flame
i wanna be Claudette Colvin

i wanna be more than a prodigal child
buck wild in the eyes of adults who are sharp and methodical
the invisible force that no one saw yet
think her name is Claudette

credits

released May 1, 2019
Vikram Devasthali - vocals, lyrics, synths
Wyatt Keusch - beats, synths, sampling
Sam Jones - bass guitar, keyboards, additional production

mixed by Sam Jones
mastered by Sean Price
cover art by Trevor Blake

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Luther Burbank Los Angeles, California

Luther Burbank was born of a hundred and one nights of tinkering at the Silver Lake home of film composer Sam Jones. Fueled by the creations of prolific beastmaker Wyatt Keusch and the lyrics of Vikram Devasthali, what began as a simple experiment in rap developed over two years into their full-length debut, With Apologies To… ... more

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