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Earthseed

from Brown Girls Dream by LaVon Hardison

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Written for a Bushwick Book Club event, this song was inspired by Octavia Butler’s amazing novel Earthseed. It’s the story about an young African American girl building a new society in a apocalyptic future.

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Tell me what do Brown girls dream
‘bout more than boys
‘bout more than tears
They dream of gravity unlearned
of Saturn’s free rings and Mercury's burn

They dream less about clothes and less about friends
Less about phones and more about endings and comings mmm
Of life that goes beyond four walls
of Jupiter’s red, orange, and brown
Where the pen is key and the paper door
Where nighttime skies are better shores

Then the changer came and Jesus was done
And blood turned ink was the prophet’s new Earthseed was cast on new ground

Indifferent changer
Life re-arranger
Wind that shatters the rock
New direction exchanger
Life-end maker
Pay the piper
Wake-up shaker
Unite. Divide.
Unrelenting deal breaker

The galaxies move and everything changes
The stars ignite and everything changes

Tell me what do Brown girls dream
No black and white stage
Just star-filled dreams

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from Brown Girls Dream, released March 15, 2023

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LaVon Hardison Olympia, Washington

LaVon Hardison, “an artist for whom the song is king” (Earshot Jazz), has a glossy, warm tone and infectious stage presence. Trained in jazz and classical vocal technique, LaVon has a developed a musical persona as a jazz singer with a rock-and-roll sensibility. Beneath the core jazz sound of her original songs and covers bubbles a gumbo of soul, rock, country, gospel, pop, and even punk. ... more

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