Testo Nothingness (It's Everyone's Fate)

Testo Nothingness (It's Everyone's Fate)

To be born in precarious land,
girded by more powerful distress than me
To be parted from a precious strand
binding me to the belly that protected me.
An innate learning of the death,
my own lie is fear of fear so radical
My corrupt heart puts me on a path
moving away forever from my Africa.

It's a seeming light - of a white owner skin
On my blackness - my dark complexion's sin
Saying goodbye - to my wild frontier
It's a give-and-take - with my own hidden fear
I will comply - and so resigned adhere
And I will bow - to the off foreign field
And I will sow - the cotton I will wear
And approve my nothingness- nothingness

He's my pallid gleam - replies to my agony
I respond to him - give up on my person
I feel safe awhile - His weapons so mighty
Pain remains my style - Goodbye my obscurity
I will pluck my fright - fatigue fall asleep my thoughts
Wearing alien cloth - Bye bye little blackness
I'll be who I'm not - love what is not due to me
I will hug his God - his words will comfort me
Better I can't

It's everyone’s fate

It's my pallid way - beguiling my agony
I respond to it - give up on my coherence
I feel safe awhile - It’s armors so mighty
Pain remains my style - Goodbye my prehistory
I will pluck my fright - fatigue fall asleep my thoughts
Wedding alien thougth - Bye bye little childhood
I'll be who I'm not - love what is not due to me
I will hug his God - his words will comfort me
Better I can't

But I don’t stop looking for a way
to discover something so profuse and great
to deserve all my guts and faith
to delete the consensus of deported slave
'cause my pact with hypocrisy I want to waive
and recover my genuine again.
Testi Enzo and the Glory Ensemble