Music – Forgotten Vibe

This lyric fragment keeps syncing with me. It holds a heavy ring of truth that is only better set by the deep, earthy vocals of the rapper who recites them in steadily to a low key hip hop beat. Like an inevitability. This is from the end of Frgt/10, a remix of Linkin Park’s Forgotten on the Reanimation CD. Not too many resonate so clearly.

I’m here at the podium talking,
the ceremonial offerings
Dedicated to urban dysfunctional offspring

What’s happening

City governments are eternally napping
Trapped in greedy covenants, causin’ urban collapsing
Bullets that scar souls, with dark holds,
get more than your car stole
Some hearts be blacker than charcoal

For real

This society’s deprivation depends not on our differences,
but the separation within
No preparation is made, limited aid, minimum wage
Livin’ in a tenement cage where rent isn’t paid
Tragedy within a parade
The darkness overspread like permanent plague
On the forgotten