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In Part IV. Emerge, the speaker finds a new sense of hope for climate justice. They acknowledge their accountability within the systems which perpetuate climate violence, and they accept that this is an entity which is beyond their capacity to fully know. And yet, they end by illuminating the importance of our “tiny droplet choices” in the preservation of “this future worth protecting”.

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I emerge from the tarmac and open my eyes
I’m not afraid of the Boogeyman, I know his disguise
Because he hides in the apathy, denial, and lies
He sows seeds of indifference to will our demise
And I'm complicit in the violence that butchers the sky
Oh my, I’m so tired of this viscous interior
Caught up in machinery tearing me into pieces of scarcity
This convenience tethers me to atemporal entities, uh
I've been catastrophising, across my many lives and
I don’t want to feel despair, but I can't deny it
When I try to fall asleep, I just lie here crying
Sketching prayers on my screen 'til my eyes tighten
It feels quiet sometimes, like a secret
It's not materially real, until you meet it
Bigger than the small expressions of weather or death
It’s bigger than the biosphere, bigger than the end
It feels like a distant existence, but it’s a part of me
Wave forms all collapse like a harmony
Or like a bombshell, like eruption
Like the rust scorching holes in the armoury
I took a drive last night tryna clear my head
Make the humming of the road what I feel instead
I took a drive last night tryna disappear
But every moment I'm alive I am still here
When this ends then where do we go, huh?
If it’s already done, how will we know, uh?
When this ends then where do we go, uh?
If it’s already done, how will we know, uh?
Dark nights are so deceitful, these skies hide constellations
Inside our light pollution all we see is our reflection
But hope is my direction, our dying breathes are precious
These tiny droplet choices, this future worth protecting

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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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