I Snuck Off the Slave Ship

In a distant shoreline
I could see me standing there
Watching ships, oh, sailing in
Ship after ship after ship
Oh, sailing in
Standing in wonder
Standing there
Watching the capture of my body
To take me somewhere
Net drop, oh
Net drop, oh
Chains bound
Rope tied
Me down
Beating me bloody
And drug me around
Dragging me along the way
sometimes all day without food
Or water
Me and so many others
Oh, oh, oh
Drug us to the shoreline
Put us on the boat
And, oh, floated us out to the sea
Tossing us down in the galleys
Tossing us down into darkness
So many humans crying
Whining, wiggling and moving
Trying to break free
And just before drowning, my head down in the water
An old woman said to me
“Hold your head”
“Hold your head”
“Hold your head up high”
And that’s when I took a ride on my imagination
I took a mental flight off
Into reality
Just above all the slaves
Tied and shackled down
Piled up on each other
Men, womens and children, too
And some of the womens was pregnant
I said, “What are they going to do?
What they gonna do?, What they gonna do?”
I snuck off
I snuck off
I snuck off the slave ship
In my imagination
Snuck off the slave ship
Saw the bodies that was tossed over
Along the way
Unaccounted for bodies
Unaccounted for bodies
Drowned in the water
And then when I got to the shoreline
I saw those that was harvesting from the ocean deep
I saw the front of planting over and over
Replanting seeds
Working in the fields laboring from sun up to sundown
Laboring and laboring
Oh, the slave masters whipping and beating them down
Dragging them around
And those that were being rebellious
I saw them hanging
By the limbs
Of trees
I snuck off
I snuck off
I snuck off the slave ship
I saw the blood
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip
Dripping after drip
I saw the sweat, oh, mixing up
Mixing up in the tears
Humans working fields
Down in the valleys along the hills
All the way up the mountain side
And then the laborers kept laboring
Turned civilization
I snuck off
I snuck off
I snuck off the slave ship
In my imagination
By way of a mental flight
I’ve seen the wounded land
Days and land nights
And fields turn into factories
Full of those humans that once they called them slaves
Industries
To the industrial manner
Building and building, inventing
Fixing and allowing all to come to be
Oh, I snuck off
The slave ship
I saw humans and humans,
oh, in companies and factories
Working their fingers to the bone
And then I looked up
You remember I snuck off
Off the slave ship
To look up and see
In flight above me
Flying things
I saw the airplanes
Saw the formation of the Hindenburg
Oh
Big balloons floating around
Big balloons floating around, now, now, now, now, now
With humans above
With humans aboard
Tossing and laboring
Just to drop stuff back down
And bombs
And destroy all around
Explosive
Destroying cities
Destroying parts of society
That humans called civilization
I snuck off
I snuck off
I snuck off the slave ship
To see humans crying and dying
Nowhere to be buried
Bodies laying all around
Then I saw museums being built all around the world
Just to house the information
For the formal of education
For every man, woman, boy, and girl
To learn
Before I began to sneak on another
Cause of sneaking off the slave ship
I snuck off
I snuck off the slave ship
Just to
Just
Just to sneak on another
Now I’m on
I’m on further exploration
Further, further, further, further, further, further, further, further, further, further
Further, on and on
Further, further, further, further, further, further, further on
On and on
I saw human made probes
Probing me behind
Saw human made satellites
Circling the earth around
I saw space shuttles
Establishing space centers
I saw in the windows of technology
Mirrors that reflected
How humanity would turn out
To be
I snuck off
Snuck off the slave ship
Just to sneak on another
Now here it is
I snuck on
I sneak off
I snuck on
To sneak off in it
By putting on to the slave ship
I snuck off the slave ship
Just to sneak on another
From the slave ships