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Ashes (single)

by Santana Sankofa

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Ashes is the title track and final single of the Ashes album.

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Black Cream
Black Cream
So soothing

Ooooo…So…So
Yeah

Like a thief in the night
Change picked the lock
Tore through (tore through)
Caught me with closed eyes
And took all I thought I knew
Never had a clue

Never stood a chance
When change is on the queue
You just gotta let her play
And sing her song for you

Take it as you will
And maybe switch up the tune
Cause you are change too
So you might as well groove

Like the women work the soil
Earth an extension of my hands
Brown on brown
Black and green
Throw in blue

Would you look at that
I am the Land

I am, I am, I am, I am, I am what I am
(I am what I am)

Like a baby in my lap
Change needs that tender love
So vulnerable so raw
What was I scared of?

I notice now when the ash hit the ashtray
How things keep needing to burn away
Dark ash is all that remains
Funny how I thought I could get away from change
(Change)

Funny how I thought I could get away from change
(It’s funny how I thought I could get away)

Change
Never get away from change
Never never never get away from change
Never never never gonna get away from change

Never never never
Not in your whole life
Whole life

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released September 20, 2022
cover art by Pili Ojos Magnificos, produced by Muso

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Santana Sankofa New York, New York

SANTANA SANKOFA

(she/they) is a genderqueer AfroCaribbean artist, educator, and community organizer born and raised in LA, currently based in Baltimore.

Their art and activism centers on disrupting society and empowering trans + queer people through the sounds and spaces she cultivates.

Santana explores themes of justice, transmuting fear for freedom, and intimacy on their album ASHES. ... more

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