Malka

Name's Malka. You don't know me. I'm anonymous
Been interpreting signing aligning
Conversations right under your noses
Born to deaf parents, always signing,
Getting everybody together to
Feel the rhythm that I'm feeling
Understanding brings healing, make it music, easy
Lost in translation conflation with everybody
Aching and palpitating,
Getting more inside their feelings
And their being than you could imagine
Always reeling, preparing,
You've gotta be ready to be anything
Creeper woman kid ignoble
Vulgar repugnant joyful
Got a nation in me
Fluent in every language of the spirit
You can hear it it's endearin'
Hearing loops are deceiving
Can be deaf, so lipreading
I'm far from myself cause I keep an inner distance
Spinning round and round
Soul of masses over-looping I Chicago
Deeper hear an inner war going
Another thought's exploding
Criminals escape when we reason by induction
Spoke for mom but that was practice
To rap this I'll speak for y'all at the rapture no cappin'
I'm what's happenin' got the match lit,
Who am I though, I forgot this?
I hear my voice and go, does that sound fine?
Good art is a crime, made sublime, listen up it's time:
We'll whisper the story that they say is mine

I always knew you had a voice
I hear it but they think it's noise
I know the world would know you can
If they could only understand
Show me your heart I'll bring it out
Even in sign I'll make it loud
Communicate it I will do
The rest to show the best in you

I was raised in the fires of doubt, stood up to
Speak for my family, found myself pushed out
Felt like a facilitator of danger
Relaying messages that were delaying
The success of my family,
I tried to defend mommy said that I can
While the divorce court judge was sitting
I spoke for myself and I made my last stand
And I failed. She was Britney's judge,
No wonder girl was mad we got Speared
Got my cords ripped out, repressed all my fears, hands tied
I thought I wouldn't budge
But the monsters were near, feared my dad
Then I grew but not tall
Became a fly on the wall
Signed for Tim Cook and Elon Musk
Then for kids in special ed getting mocked,
At Juvy and for patients
With ALS I sat there helpless.
If this is what it's like to be a God
I would rather be a prince.
Watching them march to their fates,
Those who commit crimes,
Learning from the deaf-blind,
Death makes angels and demons the same
It's one big game living by a fake name
We call it life, its real name is strife,
Gotta learn to love it or we'll die in five
Deaf-Blind got so little, how much we've still got,
Long as we're striving it's enough.
In between I saw your pains and your dreams,
I'm out to voice em I hear some new noises
In the crowd, get loud,
It ain't just hearing people who can shout
We got a vision for the best of us to achieve
Need art to survive, this world is ugly you see

I always knew you had a voice
I hear it but they think it's noise
I know the world would know you can
If they could only understand
Show me your heart I'll bring it out
Even in sign I'll make it loud
Communicate it I will do
The rest to show the best in you

So now I'm here.
Speaking what I know and feeling ready to roll.
Took me years and tears and beating my fears
But I found a way to be whole
And now I'm down
For the world to get to know me
Creating I'm revealing something
Holy and fearless
I'll displace all the players
Who you think are the greatest
Till I make up all the favorites
Of the favorites of your playlist
Y'all are reeling from my flow,
Water started from my hands
I smashed the rock like I was Moses
So it all came out and now you getting clean
Spring water streaming down
I'm tweaking the space I'm bringing fresh sound
Just racing past the turtles, dipping their wrinkled toes
I'm knee-deep in it they go party late nights
I don't waste a single minute
They lagging I'm lapping
They traveling I'm driving
They sitting I'm standing
They living I'm fighting
They wondering I'm deciding
I'm thriving they're nihilists
Philosophy degree
We're gonna get deeper than the ocean
Rise above the tides
We'll go beyond the commotion
Flowing rolling infinite
We are perpetual motion
One with the universe
We'll look back and get past
Then go forward and imagine the future
Our time here is short
So we'll make our time worth it
Our hands through the sand
Of the hourglass dripping don't matter
I don't need to be remembered
It's what we do that's who we are,
We do good keep high the bar,
There's only one moon but a billion stars so

I always knew you had a voice
I hear it but they think it's noise
I know the world would know you can
If they could only understand
Show me your heart I'll bring it out
Even in sign I'll make it loud
Communicate it I will do
The rest to show the best in you