[spoken] What happens when a culture keeps its monuments, its language, its music… but slowly loses the memory of why they existed? [music building up] [verse 1 ] They preserved the walls… Then quietly misplaced… the voices… that built them.-----(Sovereign Noir) They took our blood, our power, our aspirations. And carved them into monuments of silent faces for all time.-----(JoStat) [verse 2 ] Those silent faces gave all they could So we might have all that we should The true idea has been lost to time.------(DEKE) They were the rivers, they were the roots, The unseen hands that carried the truth---(Sonya) [bridge1 ] and on a page a ribbon I draw, joining syllables, that between the flesh of my lips...composes verses so that there are no walls...a hope in a simple but intimate whole...art feeling in the pros and cons that the magic of art succumbs within...my word"-----(Moon) [chorus 1 ] Culture's dying in my hands Don’t trade the root for the brand hands in the dirt, feet on the land this is where we make our stand.---(Blood Pig) We polished every mirror, Yet never faced ourselves. We reached for distant planets, While strangers stood alone. If progress leaves the human heart behind, Who inherits tomorrow?----(Neon dreams) [verse 3 ] Beneath the surface lies, A call to see with wiser eyes: To honor what we’ve left behind, And seek the heart we’ve yet to find. --(Babymagik) We inherit the armor but forget the war, Pacing the halls of a hollow folklore. The ancient frequencies drowned in the noise, A sacred legacy stripped of its voice.----(Kwame) [verse 4] That which we seek has never been lost. This ignorance has come with a heavy cost, We need to turn inwards in unity. It’s then the truth shall set humanity free. -----(Victoria's Heart) They tried to silence the colors in our voice, but we rose like fire through the rain. No fear can chain the truth we carry, no shadow can erase our name. We sing so culture stays alive, unbroken in the flame., ----(Torgor) [bridge 2] We crossed the void with the scars we tried to hide Searching for a warmth the darkness never supplied Through endless silence, through galaxies unkind Still hoping someone would stay by our side We turn our pain into the song the cosmos never heard Two damaged souls still hoping for a single healing word. (Starlite Porch) (pre chorus) It's time for our wizened elders who know this ancient truth to educate the ignorant, and the lost and misled youth. (chorus 2) Above all art, history, and treasures lost, we have paid an even greater cost It seems humanity has lost its way And it stumbles blindly to this day It is our responsibility now It is our time to decide Every sister, father, mother, and brother Let us stop this CULTRICIDE! [Outro] Cultricide is mankinds suicide-------(Michael)
