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Sleepless Lions

from Rara Aves by Zachg

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This started out as a cover of The Lion Sleeps Tonight, but it ended up sounding really flat. I kept the same scale, and then started from scratch again. The idea behind The Lion Sleeps Tonight is basically don't fear danger aimlessly, because not all danger is for you. The Lion isn't dangerous to you. But I inverted the sentiment because I think that an inversion of the logic is applicable to us. We've gone too far, and we should now have fear of things we didn't fear before. We've drifted outside the natural balance, and now nature will be forced to correct us. Who knows how long that takes, or what it means, but the fact of the matter remains: Natural resources are a quantified value on this planet, we are working with finite materials. We cannot treat these finite materials as if they are from a limitless source. We cannot continue to consume as a means of existence. Become aware of yourself for preservation's sake if nothing else.

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***In this jungle/ in this quiet jungle/ there's a sleepless lion tonight***

I'm with foxes
Burrowing owl
Hares and opposums
Ospreys and oscars
Natives imposters
Emerge from the sawgrass unscathed know you saw that
Be a boss don't give a fuck about no boss hat
Cause I'm alone where I boss at
Endless expanses of
Wetlands and wildlife
Raised to have a spirit don't rely on a satellite
Don't fight
Found a way and a path
And I lao tzu walk it
Nobody else to it you allow you to walk it
I aint fuckin with a carpet at home
So what the fuck I care about one on TV
I got a family and a drive to be happy
So peace be the missile miss me or get at me
And if you get it twisted I will gladly unrap thee
you aint know my last you can call me zachg
Persistence and presence
And the package go deep
Don't got a mattress but I got my teeth
I keep them clean as well as my feet
My fate hold me down
Stomach got me on a leash
But if I break them things
Hit the surface then breach
First whale on the beach with them legs man
But just a long detour from the water
Imma keep on breathin pack of alveoli piranas in my chest
So how's that look from outer space
Read the writing on the great wall of china bout the race
Man it's long

So long


Life long

And if you aint got a smile then you aint gonna last
You'll be back in this life livin a loop through the past
Real liberation passed you
gotta catch up
The longing of past yous
Make you gotta back up
But life goin forward so its mashin your back up
End crippled end crushed end cracked up
Shoulda laughed in the first place
thought it was a quick road turned out it's the worst case
Cause it took you straight down
To the dirt happy birthday

***chorus***

There's a process
But its stacked under cautions
Costs less if you livin out of process
But then you caught up and you comin outta pocket
For livin that life that don't cost but it profit
Off makin others pay until they all up outta options
Relentless to get this rent this repentence and then this dimension
Collapses or ends its

Just that simple
Push that pencil
Till you off the page
Lead gon burn
And lines gon erase
You can ride this earth
Till your next birthday
You gon circle that sun
You gon learn that pace
You gon earn that year if you like this place
You gon lose one turn if you don't play this game

Aint no price right when money cost this much
givin too much life to get a profit off
Cars of the future still cats right
And the future gotta come what's that like
Sayin earth gon go
Water turn to snow
Snow turn to to rivers
And the rivers gotta flow
And then its back to the oceans unless its bottled up
And with more supermarkets always being more flush
How much of those glaciers on shelves right now
And can't refreeze so they carry degrees
Right on up with the price of gas
gas plastic and oil is really the past
We makin hollowed out earth and it can't go back
Till lotsa shit dies
There's a consequence it aint opinion its fact
That what we do with resources is finite math
And when we make it add up it aint gon be no blast
Aint a party for the fallen when they rose off wrath
So what you done with your life what you carved with your path sayin name yourself before this thing collapse

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from Rara Aves, track released August 24, 2011

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Zachg Los Angeles, California

Born and raised in the Everglades at the fringe of Broward County, lived in NY, and now in SF Zachg raps, and makes beats. His music is influenced by everything from Liquid Swords, to My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, to cLOUDDEAD, to Future Days, to Punk in Drublic, to Raga Malkauns, to Esperanza, to In C, to Remain in Light, to Stankonia, to Another Green World--it's all in here. #KeepOnIt ... more

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