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GODDAMN (Pure Purge)

by DOG DAYS ARE OVER

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I took @alwagordon ‘s track as more of a… starting point to say the least 🤣 and I added a wholeass choir, hella vocal layers, ad libs, rhythmic breathing, synths, breakbeat drums, and of course layered the original onto itself to thicken its sound!

It took me two months to complete while working full time! This shit was no joke and I’m SO happy with the final project 😭💛🔥

I wrote this to alchemize my Catholic religious trauma into a healing journey of paving my own divine path to the Universe/God/Source.

Some may interpret this as “praise to God”, which is kinda funny to me. I’m okay with that. Although in this rap I hold both praise and blasphemy at the same time.

That’s all I’ve ever done to survive as a queer “Latine” person finding his voice in a deeply colonized globalized society.

Smudging with sage and palo santo. Listening to my backyard birdsongs and wind. Rooting down in a concrete jungle.

I take the shit I was fed and purge it into divine art that realchemizes and remixes my trauma.

The Q club shooting in Colorado brought me back to the mindspace I crumbled into when the same thing happened at Pulse in 2016. But this time, instead of sadness, after some moments of dissociation, I was fucking angry.

So here is my queer rage bundled up in a nice little rainbow bow on #blackfriday 😂🤬 I want you to imagine the choir of voices as every single queer person who was killed violently because of hate.

👀so dear homophobe:

here I am, your best nightmare suited in an iridescent daydream: healer, intuitive writing coach, rapper, nationally renowned & published poet, music producer and entrepreneurial badass!

Sincerely,
YOU 👏🏽WILL 👏🏽NEVER 👏🏽KILL 👏🏽US 👏🏽ALL. 👏🏽

Please consider donating to @trevorproject to help LGBTQ+ youth thrive 💛🌈✨

In Lak’Ech, @dogdays.music & @dogdaysareover_hectorc ✨🌀

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LYRICS:

pure purge on a splurge with an urge to demigod
the shit i been holding the back of my throat, been HOLDIN OUT on god

like GODDAMN, the sun’s knocking my tongue like Jev Witness
like GODDAMN the moon running laps like Nike Fitness

like sunday choirs echoing through an empty cathedral like
god how could you gift me all this joy and no pain to carry it with either

god why would you clear my throat, can't choke on my spit anymore,
sun and moon waltzing on my tongue, purging trauma outta the door [swallowed]

before my body - become choir to / the hymns of / my unhaunted memories

purity clarified
dewdrops in hurricanes,
megaquake shatterin’

skyscrape-thoughts forgotten!

post purge of inkpages
spilling over your eardrums

like what you got to say
when those bells stop ringing

when that cathedral is joy when
god’s a hymn bellowing
your most unholy sacrilege?

GODDAMN prayers,
all of your haters be
“love you laters”
all of my witnesses
they own saviors
all of our beings be
divine leaders,
DEMON SLAYERS!

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released December 28, 2022
Everything created by Hector F Castaneda of DOG DAYS ARE OVER.
Strange Alchemy Records 2022.

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