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Dark Matters

by Fold

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Dark Matters (ft. Mr Gee) 03:03
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Come walk with me Stumble into the unknown This world has both A fork and a knife And we're all fighting for rice As steel pays the price For a place to call home Come see the trauma Reborn before me As old battles cling onto The newly baptised names Ancient shadows pander To flickering candles Smashing each infant corner Under the rapture of flame Come sip from the cup Of these useless ideas These jobless doctrines Just flogging a career If you don't sanctify life In all of its torturous beauty The peace that you proclaim Will never be found here Now come take a look In the mirror And see eye-to-eye On what we truly are I'm all that you've got And It might not seem a lot As we bulldoze the block To enlist future scars You can't fight wars Without becoming a warrior It's never too late So don't give up Nobody knows who Wraps up the red carpet Nobody knows why The endgame is corrupt Nobody sees The bloodstains in my writing Nobody hears My ancestors scream Nobody knows Why we're always fighting And nobody can bring Your love back to me If you live long enough You learn to regret Once upon a time Is yesterday and some change If they blaze the village of a child Then what do you expect He'll replace the confusion with chaos And the chaos with rage So come walk with me Let's hold this space And try to unpack time Before we were born The universe made poetry Before I was born This world destroyed mine Nobody sees The bloodstains in my writing Nobody hears My ancestors scream Nobody knows Why we're always fighting And nobody can bring Your love back to me Nobody sees The bloodstains in my writing Nobody hears My ancestors scream Nobody knows Why we're always fighting And nobody can bring Your love back to me Nobody sees The bloodstains in my writing Nobody hears My ancestors scream So come walk with me Let's hold this space And try to unpack time Before we were born The universe made poetry Before I was born This world destroyed mine
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Dark Matters (Instrumental) 03:03
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Much-loved UK poet Mr Gee & Leeds collective Fold share a common drive to respond to the major shifts on humanity’s landscape with empathy & critical thinking. Dark Matters, described by Gee as “a bit of an anti-war, anti-everything piece,” is their 10th collaboration in 11 years. It responds to the many humanitarian crises caused by wars across the world—from Gaza to Sudan & elsewhere—along with the global power structures facilitating them.

Gee takes a long view; breathing deeply the history of oppressed peoples and our widely repeated mistake of falling for the ‘divide & conquer’ narratives that mask power’s true intent. The anguish, frustration & grief that so many of us feel is strongly reflected in the synergy between words & music.

“Humanity is capable of such great love, yet we fall down the same rabbit-holes. The recent events have really made me question everything. Dark Matters is inspired by my despair over War in general. Even when we try to take the stance of peace, sometimes we end up speaking the language of battle and becoming warriors once more.”
— Mr Gee

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released May 31, 2024

Written by Mr Gee and Seth Mowshowitz
Arranged, produced, mixed & mastered by Seth Mowshowitz
Performed by Fold and Mr Gee
Artwork by Seth Mowshowitz

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Leeds UK group amplifying humanitarian perspectives & critical reflections on today’s world.

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