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Being P​ā​kehā

from Atlas Shrugged by The Prophet Motive

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It was the fourth time the flag fell. '45 in the Capital
Forefathers fled, trembling, to ships; adorned in life-jackets of cement
Nationalism chiseled with insular symbols
(Designed) To crush moral compasses
An Empire's Greatest Accomplishment

We trample any outsiders in the blind haste to define ourselves
Kororāreka left behind - axe blades on flag poles swing through time
To the ship's hold where we cower on water that is eating at the hull
In our blindness we'll define our own hell

We never left those ports - we're still on the waters
Is that why we don't know this land?
Nor where we are or have been
We justify the poverty - privileged and pissed off and lost as all fuck

We trample any outsiders in the blind haste to define ourselves
Kororāreka left behind - axe blades on flag poles swing through time
To the ship's hold where we cower on water that is eating at the hull
In our blindness we'll define our own hell

Are we in trinkets and on labels for biscuits?
Or in birds of night we've never seen?
In the emblems on a cloth for an Empire lost?
Or in stories cloaked in omittances to hide the obscene?

(Are we just)
Culture is something to sell when you're immune to the abuse of cards you've dealt to yourself
(Birds of night?)
Culture is all you can sell - consumed and confused that we don't know ourselves


We trample any outsiders in the blind haste to define ourselves
Kororāreka left behind - axe blades on flag poles swing through time
To the ship's hold where we cower on water that is eating at the hull
In our blindness we'll define our own hell

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from Atlas Shrugged, released August 15, 2017

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The Prophet Motive Auckland, New Zealand

The Prophet Motive - Mitch Cookson (Vocals, Guitar) and Matt Billington (Guitar, Vocals) are Rotorua's fourth best Political Folk-Punk duo. Now based in Auckland, they have just released their second album, 'Atlas Shrugged'.

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