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America Goddamn

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America Goddamn!

In 1964, Nina Simone wrote Mississippi Goddamn” after Medgar Evers was assassinated and white supremacist lynchings and murders of black people continued even as people were fighting back and demanding that black people be treated as human beings....why? because...this is America!

This new Outernational art is called AMERICA GODDAMN because the absolute terror and horror of white supremacy is the very essence of this country and it absolutely cannot be tolerated. The song begins with Nina Simone talking about what it’s like to be black in the USA from an interview she gave shortly before she died. The lyrics speak for themselves.

lyrics

Nina Simone:
“SLAVERY HASN’T CHANGED, MY FRIEND, IT’S JUST ADOPTED A NEW FACE”
“IT’S IN THE VERY FABRIC OF AMERICAN SOCIETY” - GODDAMN!
“I COULDN’T STAND IT” - GODDAMN!
“I GOT TREATED LIKE A PIECE OF SHIT” - GODDAMN!
“I’M NO MORE THAN A “NIGGER” HERE” - GODDAMN!

NO FILTER, NO FLASHES
FOUR HUNDRED YEARS, THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
SOLD DOWN THE RIVER
BLACK BODIES IN THE BREEZE
BABIES BORN BEATEN AND BURNED
A HUNDRED MILLION LASHES
AMERIKKKA
BLOODLUST, AMERIKKKA
IRREDEEMABLE, AMERIKKKA
IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT AMERIKKKA

GODDAMN!
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?
GODDAM!
GODDAMN THESE MOTHERFUCKERS

NO END TO THE LIES
NO END TO THE CRIES
"I AIN’T NO MOTHERFUCKING SLAVE"
"NOW TESTIFY!”
STOLEN LAND: COLONIZED
HUMANITY: TERRORIZED
TERRORISTS: CERTIFIED
AN ASSASSIN'S NATION: VERIFIED
RED, WHITE AND BLUE: IDENTIFIED
AMERICA IS GUILTY OF GENOCIDE
THIS RIGHT HERE IS FOR NAGASAKI
HIROSHIMA, INFECTED BLANKETS
A NEW CIVIL WAR AND FASCISM IS IN FASHION
BACK AT IT WITH THE KLAN UNMASKING
HERE’S A QUESTION TO BE ASKING:
IF AMERICA WAS NEVER GREAT AND GAINED GREAT WEALTH AS A SLAVE STATE
HOW THE HELL IS IT SOMETHING TO SAVE?

GODDAMN!
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?
GODDAMN!
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?
GODDAM!
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?
GODDAM!
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?

“HOW MANY MORE TIMES
DO THE TEARS AND THE CRIES
OF ANGUISH AND ANGER
HAVE TO POUR FORTH
FROM THE WOUNDED HEARTS OF PEOPLE?
WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?”

GODDAMN!
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?
GODDAMN!
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?
GODDAMN!
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?
GODDAM!
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?

YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?
YOU COMING FOR ME? YOU WANT TO TAKE ME OUT?

GODDAMN!

credits

released June 5, 2020
Song by Outernational
Featuring Stefanie Christi'an
Produced by Miles Solay and Mark Bengtson
Recorded and Mixed by Mark Bengtson
Mastered by Reuben Cohen
Cover Art by Amaris Modesto

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