The Oppressed Write Back — By Lana Bell

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Lyr­ics

Heart tis­sue cry­ing to sound of its beat
Begin­ning enters with a bass
Slam my heart like a door to your bed­room
Its over, I still love you
I’ve just for­got­ten how it feels
to lay on the tracks of your ribs

But that’s the past
even though it’s thump­ing rhythms inside
It’s the past
breathe in deep to the beat of a new sun­rise

some people strum your heartstrings
oth­er­’s snap em’
but all that hurt you
can be tuned into pas­sion
I’m chas­ing my spin­al chord in spir­als
stim­u­late your son­ic heart­beat for sur­viv­al
because these waves of phase and days of pain are tid­al

but there’s so much beauty
in how we all relate
with music and beats
and feel­ings that speak on the street

hold­ing the end straps of my ruck­sack
head­phones plugged into heart­beat

Music is the beat of the oppressed
refuse to be sup­pressed, stressed, depressed, repressed
and reduced of your muse
I’ll spit truth
even when I under­stand sad­ness more than myself
I’ll spit truth
bend­ing per­cep­tion into messes of con­nec­tion
I’ll spit truth
stream­ing rivers into cas­cades of hope
High notes

breathe — air — gasp

For anoth­er lonely strum of a string
to snap my syn­apse into cli­max as my mind lapse then
the mic snaps

the youth are bleed­ing on the wrist of the street
but the oppressed write back
and guess what
we write back with a beat!

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Lana Bell

Author / Poetry Edit­or at I Am Hip-Hop

Lana Bell, is an eight­een year old Lon­don­er who is based in Bris­tol. She is an emer­ging Spoken Word Artist, and the Poetry Edit­or for I Am Hip-Hop Magazine. She has been writ­ing for a dec­ade; though she has only been per­form­ing on from the age of fif­teen. She got into Hip-Hop music at four­teen, and she found a massive interest in Old Skl Sounds and the out­let that Hip-Hop music offered her.

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• Inter­view: Intro­du­cing Lemzi (@lemziartist) — March 7, 2017

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