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Encrypted & Vulnerable

by SAUL WILLIAMS

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JaneyB
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JaneyB Loved Saul Williams ever since I heard him say, "..who sends you love and light, exposes you to parts of you that you once tried to fight".
This feels more cryptic than his earlier work, I guess as suggested by the title. You can feel these things.
But, as with all his work, it moves those deepest parts of you. Stirs those thoughts you didn't even realise you were having yet...
Dude's got soul. Favorite track: Before The War.
Kevin Haynes
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Kevin Haynes The minimalistic style of this album does an amazing job of personalizing the altruistic and deeply motivating experience of Saul's music and message. Favorite track: Experiment.
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1.
Everybody knows when the sun rise. See it dawn in their own eyes. Die and bloom in a season. Everybody knows what the folks call “reasoning”. On a distant planet where the reason landed and the folks transparent... Fourth dimensional libations, granted.
2.
If I'm just born once in a lifetime who am I to make things up? I count the stars but will they count me? Who am I to lift them up? 'Who am I?' the soldiers ask me. 'Who am I?' ask the police. Who am I but a reflection of that uniform, beneath? I was born on a forgotten day but I own the night. I snuck back through time hacks. A mountain of stars over the sea. The rippling torment of solitude. I will reach you if only to shake you awake. Beneath the crust and mantle of this planet is a birthplace. A crystal of light peering through ocean breath and form. I am as conscious of its eye as in my essence, I and I, am both the music and the bombast of the storm. I own the night and the stars bright as Suns of distant galaxies. I am the darkness of my earth-form holding space. I own the night and the spectrum of awareness and fatality. I take the form of every lovers face. Deep in the eye in the moon-like satellite of every pupil I am the light in its wave-form. I am grace. I own the night and the dream-space of a planet in a planet. I own the night that each day works to erase. I was born on a forgotten day but I own the night.
3.
Experiment 03:07
They took my cells without my knowing and re-cut the keys to the kingdom. Changed the locks. Virgin whore monger handmaiden misbehavin' the cradle of civilization. Inspiration information. Imagine that. I know all about the bullshit. Spray paint on walls for the moment. Sell the wall in a gallery to hold it. My humanity like that they bought and sold it. Never too old to behold it. Sanded and molded I was cut into shape. It took more than one rape. Never met a period that wasn't late. 2. The Pharmacopornographic Era. The Counter-sexual Manifesto. We need a name for this. Jesus wouldn't be caught dead in your church. Death to the patriarchy. The floor is the bottom line. The crypt is filled with black madonnas, virgin mothers... Wrote a book in a hotel room and bet you ain't never heard of it. We need new songs to sing 'cause we've got stamina. Don't mean a thing if you don't dance to it. 3. Subharmonic birdsong sung on principle: Pollination, Pollen Nation! Interwoven patterns of actual emotions gathered in a space. Incongruent points of departure. An hour before they get here. We'll need the dj to play this again. This time for the listening. 4. This is the inaugural ceremony of the disenchanted. The lovesick and the over-powered. You can charge your world with this. You off the grid now. Here is an inconsistent rant on nation/states bemused by corporal identity. An unrelenting conversation on why he will rob you and call it love. The militarized police state of humorless poetry has finally caught up with you, teeth whiter than a mf. 5. Teeth whiter than a mf Camera'd like karma cared. And we ain't got no name for this: Experiment. Like democracy and unbridled capitalism. Outcome is oppression and war! If entertainment is your sedative, your religion hetero-normative I got a feeling with no name for it.
4.
Underground 05:05
First they cut the radio then they cut the television they locked down the internet then locked up the opposition. Underwhelmed by the attempt. Overall what else is left? Underscore the over-paid whose bed is already made. And I'm underground. We hid in the library of the university. Under “O” for oligarch. Under “P” for patriarch. Undermine the underground. Under siege, complete surround.
5.
(I need water. Give me water. Something invisible.) Your mother the same way before the war. She stayed inside some days before the war. Remember when she froze before the door just like you froze, out in the garden? And she was my best friend before the war. I wanted children then before the war. She always knew what we were destined for before before. She always questioned what made hearts harden. Something invisible something in me hardly predictable yearning to be my pleasure your pleasure. Something in the way the guards they fall and how the sirens sing gray whales to shore. My pleasure. Your pleasure. And if there's an ounce of forgiveness in me I'll make it rain songs that their children will sing and then you will see then you will feel all that I know is real. I thought that time would heal before the war. I contained how I feel before the war. I sensed that I was here before before before they came for me out in the garden. And she was my best friend before the war. I never saw an end before the war. I always felt what we where destined for before before. I always questioned what made hearts harden. My pleasure. Your pleasure. Something in the way the guards they fall and how the sirens sing gray whales to shore. My pleasure Your pleasure ! And if there's an ounce of forgiveness in me I'll make it rain songs that their children will sing and then you will see then you will feel all that I know is real. I thought that time would heal before the war. I contained how I feel before the war. I sensed that I was here before before before they came for me out in the garden. And she was my best friend before the war. I never saw an end before the war. I always felt what we where destined for before before. I always questioned what made hearts harden.
6.
Light years. Eight planets out. Light years. The hopeless desperation that I felt. Oh! Picture a dream and dare to live it. Open your soul and dare to give it. Consumed by woes and daily fears. Rebels are posing. No one dares to crush the desperation that is felt when you live in doubt. Oh! Picture a dream and dare to live it. Open your soul and dare to give it. Consumed by woes and daily fears. Rebels are posing. No one dares to crush the desperation that is felt when you live in doubt. People above the moon. But I'm under your influence tonight. It's in the waves... Oh! Picture a dream and dare to live it. Open your soul People Above The Moon Lyrics Saul Williams and dare to give it. Consumed by woes and daily fears. Rebels are posing. No one dares to crush the desperation that is felt when you live in doubt. People above the moon.
7.
A new form of light. I was beside myself. Mars beside the moon. The naked eye, the channel the remote satellite, the crystal stair the harbored light, the encrypted message. And I got a friend who's in cyber security. Picture that! Another one that builds platforms in cyber-secure worlds, but we're all susceptible. We're all susceptible. Picture that! Save/Delete Save/Delete Save/Delete You were never erased from the question. You were never erased from the question. You were never erased. You were never erased. You were never erased from the question. *** You were born Encrypted & Vulnerable. And that's what I like about you. *** You were born every day! And when the rebels were born... *** I was beside myself. Mars beside the moon. The naked eye. The encrypted satellite... ... the darkness the darkness is lost in her eyes. Lost in her eyes. I was beside myself. I was beside myself
8.
I can't fight everything but I will if I have to. It comes at me from every direction. From the sky. I can't fight everything but I have to, to survive. They tell you to be careful of what you watch. Be careful of what you read. Be care of what you believe. Be careful. It's a world of caution that surrounds you. Who can you trust? What will they teach? What will you learn? To survive. I can't fight everything but I will if I have to. It comes at me from every direction. From the sky. I can't fight everything but I have to, to survive.
9.
Dare 03:29
I dare you to love me just the way I am. And I surrender to the charge that we were always guilty. Guilty of our innocence. But never the same since our self interest turned us against our neighbors for no greater reason than our ignorance. Manipulated by the power hungry hoarders of exploitation. The machine of fear. The disparities between the careless and those who care. You dip your hands in this rich earth and you pay your tithes to the industry. And we adhere to your ministry. Yet by a different name we are the corporal matter and fact of our existence. And it's plain to see we determine the course of this industry. Habits are choices made repeatedly. I dare you to see it differently. I dare you to love me just the way I am. And I surrender to the fact that we were always guilty. Guilty of our innocence. But never the same since our self interest turned us against our neighbors for no greater reason than our ignorance. A transactional culture. Everything at a price. What a price.
10.
I told this one kid you better get to know me 'cause if you don't son you're living in fear. I told this one kid you better get to know me 'cause if you don't son you're living in fear. You're full of shit. I told this one kid you better come and show me 'cause if you don't son you're living in fear. I told this one kid you better come and show me 'cause if you don't son you're living in fear. You're full of shit.
11.
Infinite gestures of approval. In all confidence I rise through fears removal. Infinite gestures of approval. In all confidence I rise through fears removal.
12.
Hurry up and away! They'll tell your story how they want to tell it. The algorithm of the sun and moon. Where the planets were when I first saw you. I knew invisible was visible now and then you told me... the words were swirling 'round like yellow leaves. I saw divisions of labor. The cultures... Beware! Your kind's not welcome here. Magnify the feeling. In a matter of seconds I had circumnavigated the globe. The web of awareness bore down and through me. Other choices stood out with those of migration. I too had crossed borders yearning for security, warmth, comfort, anything where I was not running for my life. Suppressing my very being. Restricted by man and the whims of manhood magnified by their fractal bigotry enacted by fear, ignorance, comfort , and the privilege of being...
13.
Infinite. Isn't it? Wouldn't you agree? Everyday. Everyday. All it ever seems is that you think about the years. Caution to wind and how could we the world you want? If you could sound it out? I think of you my love. And you know when I said it I meant it. I wouldn't have said it if I hadn't thought about it.

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Produced by Saul Williams
Mixed by Gonjasufi

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released June 5, 2020

Produced by Saul Williams
Mixed by Gonjasufi
Artwork by Christian Ericson ft. Angelbert Metoyer

Contributions from Christian Scott, Dave Sitek,, King Britt, My Brightest Diamond, Orko Eloheim, Thavius Beck, CX KIDTRONIK, Peul White Man (Yvan Ginoux),& Lippie

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