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In Part I. Boogeyman, the speaker is in denial about their impact on the climate, seeing climate disaster and annihilation as our inevitable fate. They call for excessive nihilistic consumption on the face of such terror. They compare this fate to a “Boogeyman” which they claim to not be afraid of.

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I sink slowly into tarmac, dark black ocean
Hoping that these lights approaching
Don't come close enough to open up my tired eyes
It's brighter when they’re closed

I’m not afraid of the Boogeyman

The sky made of diamonds, the wealth made us giants
The cash cow leather on the belt of Orion
The fates wove our defiance
The prophets sold hope to the fangs of desire
We are the children of the Nile
The wild crocodiles taming grass with the scythe
Sometimes you’ve got to eat a child
The river we’re delivered in is crimson at the mouth with the blight
We’re born too late in the fight
Some are dark underwater, but my skies stay bright and clear
That’s just the price of doing business
I fly high, I don’t cry for wingless, dear
Why miss heaven by inches?
Smoke a rainforest like a blunt, stay ignant
Mix that petroleum with gin ‘fore you throw it back
Serve it over glacial ice, the ship’s sinking

I’m not afraid of the Boogeyman

The sky so vast that I can’t see the edge
The lie so smooth that it felt like breath
The wound so deep that it felt like flesh
We take it as a given ‘til it felt like sense
Safe to assume that we’re already dead
So, it’s back to the everyday stress
Back to the bills and the tax and the rent
Back to the strangers that felt like friends
Back to the illness the pills and the pens
Back to the onslaught of thoughts in my head
I read the receipts of the time I’ve spent
I’m in debt, so I withdraw every second that I have left
And even if I was sure it’s the end
By now, I’m too numb to care so it depends
Does your Boogeyman only hunt those with regrets?
I’m not afraid of the Boogeyman

I’m not afraid of the Boogeyman

I’m not afraid

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from Hyperobject, released June 2, 2023

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hellocatfood + smaiduskhan Birmingham, UK

hellocatfood + smaiduskhan are a genre-blending multimedia electronic music duo based in Birmingham, UK. The duo combines the pointed and playful lyricism of Samiir Saunders (smaiduskhan) with the intricately glitchy live-coded instrumentation of Antonio Roberts (hellocatfood) to produce a densely layered sonic landscape which incorporates elements of spoken word, hip-hop, jazz, house, and glitch. ... more

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