From the recording Return of the Signal (denizens.nexus exclusive)
Lyrics
[Intro]
Annunaki archives
Open up the file
Every secret symbol
We been taking back the signs (yeah)
[Verse 1]
Gold cap on a pyramid
That’s a blue-collar bricklayer dream
You let a handful of handshakes
Turn it to a fear machine
They flipped our palms to a logo
Turned our stars into scars
Branded halos on bottles
Sold you heaven in jars
They took the eye of protection
Made it glare from a bill
Now you scared of your ancestors
But you proud of your pills
They made a ring out of Saturn
Then they called it a ring
But the only real lord there
Is the rhythm we bring (uh)
They hold meetings in boardrooms
Call it “order” and “law”
While they laundering the symbols
That your grandmother saw
She drew suns in her margins
Crosses
Flowers and keys
They rebranded that pattern
Into debt and disease
[Chorus]
Reclaim our symbols
Paint ’em in the sky
They can’t cage truth
Even if they try (nah)
Every carved sign
Every secret line
Came from us
We just taking back what’s mine
Reclaim our symbols
Carve ’em in the stone
They counterfeit crowns on a cardboard throne
Every lost glyph
Every twisted sign
Came from us
We just taking back what’s mine (what’s mine)
[Verse 2]
They made you hate your own hands
Every mark is “occult”
But it’s recipes
Roadmaps
Grandma’s family vault
See that goat on the wall?
That was harvest and horn
turned feast into fear
Every fall you were born
Take the snake on a staff
That was medicine
Care
Now they poison the chalice
Say salvation is there
They put hexes on hex codes
Inside markets and malls
Then they told you to panic
When you chalk up the walls
They in backrooms
Laughing
Eating fruit out of season
Calling cruelty “policy”
Calling profit “reason”
But they shaking in silence
’Cause the pattern’s awake
We just flip the inversion
Put the halo on the snake (yeah)
[Chorus]
Reclaim our symbols
Paint ’em in the sky
They can’t cage truth
Even if they try
Every carved sign
Every secret line
Came from us
We just taking back what’s mine
Reclaim our symbols
Carve ’em in the stone
They counterfeit crowns on a cardboard throne
Every lost glyph
Every twisted sign
Came from us
We just taking back what’s mine (all mine)
[Bridge]
[beat drops half-time
Choir swells]
Who taught you fear of your own reflection?
Who sold you shame as a new protection?
Who took love’s language
Turned it to a brand?
Who stamped contracts on an open hand? (open hand)
We remember
Way before their shrines
We were writing
On the river spines
Every “dark” sigil
Was a map to light
They remixed the meaning
We reclaim the right (yeah)
[Chorus]
Reclaim our symbols
Paint ’em in the sky
They can’t cage truth
Even if they try
Every carved sign
Every secret line
Came from us
We just taking back what’s mine
Reclaim our symbols
Carve ’em in the stone
They counterfeit crowns on a cardboard throne
Every lost glyph
Every twisted sign
Came from us
We just taking back what’s mine (what’s mine, what’s mine)
[Outro]
Annunaki archives
Open up the file
Every secret symbol
We been taking back the signs
