[Verse 1] Born into a world that stole your name Natal alienation breaks the chain From ancestors to future, torn apart Social death becomes your beating heart Settler clocks tick colonial time While Indigenous circles hold the rhyme Of seasons, cycles, sacred space That linear progress can't erase [Chorus] Time stolen, time broken, time denied Future's lost when past can't be your guide Natal break, social death, fugitive flight Temporal wounds that cut through day and night Time stolen, time broken, find your way Through quantum dreams to freedom's day [Verse 2] Running from the master's measured hours Fugitivity claims temporal powers Not just space but chronology too Making time that belongs to you Stealing moments from the plantation clock Where overseers make the minutes lock Into profit, pain, and property Freedom lives in lost time's mystery [Chorus] Time stolen, time broken, time denied Future's lost when past can't be your guide Natal break, social death, fugitive flight Temporal wounds that cut through day and night Time stolen, time broken, find your way Through quantum dreams to freedom's day [Bridge] Afrofuture visions rise Black Quantum opens eyes To multiplying timelines Where liberation shines Not just one path ahead But quantum futures spread Through dimensions yet unseen Where we've always been [Verse 3] Slavery's afterlife still haunts today Temporal dispossession won't decay Prison systems, poverty's design Keep stealing futures, yours and mine But in the corners, margins, cracks between New temporalities are seen Indigenous wisdom, Black quantum thought Teaching freedom can't be bought [Chorus] Time stolen, time broken, time denied Future's lost when past can't be your guide Natal break, social death, fugitive flight Temporal wounds that cut through day and night Time stolen, time broken, find your way Through quantum dreams to freedom's day [Outro] Reclaim the time they took away Build futures from this present day The loss of future's not the end When broken time begins to mend
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