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ESK - nature (2022)


A commission from hip-hop artist ESK
ESK youtube channel

Filmed on super 8 and edited by HUW WAHL

Music by ESK

Run time 3 minutes



LYRICS

I cotched in a silver birch copse
as the cloud cover cleared, the hilltops appeared
the Pennines hug the city like a mother to a kid
silver birch and buddleias reclaim the remains of houses
and the contents of former occupants
whole terraces of the mains are derelict
cats patrol the wall tops, brickwork crumbles
and the rats are on the warpath
fighting battles across the rubble at night
the bats dip and dive catching insects
above the drinkers upon the park benches
pidgeons pecking upon the street they’re omnipresent
they rain shit and feathers on the roads below where their nesting
congregate in crowds and flee from footfall
scatter like buckshot blue grey white blurs
sparrow flocks merge, curvaceous murmarations
above the urban acres towers mazes

Nature, nature, nature, can’t be controlled
I see the tree roots pushing through the tarmac
saplings have the strength to push apart brick walls
because they want their fucking land back
some say it’s a resource
nahh babby it’s a life force
nature has its own laws
fuck what a judge says in court

Wildflower waste ground looks like a meadow
can’t see the rubble and needles under the leaves and pettles
scrap shards of metal and rusty containers
drip chemicals like venom amongst the general debris
the greenery on the motorway embankment is like a slow-motion wave
breaking to wash away the roads and the man-made things
water trickles and erodes the foundations of buildings
foxes fed on torn bin bags contents spread
all over the ginnel ends and the cobbles unkept, unswept
alleys where the cats squabble and wail like banshees
claws swinging like branches grey squirrels run rampant
criminal damage caused by carnivores
while cockroaches crawl on dirty floors
sleeping humans woken in the dead of night by barking dogs
lightbulbs attract moths and other life forms

Nature, nature, nature, can’t be controlled
I see the tree roots pushing through the tarmac
saplings have the strength to push apart brick walls
because they want their fucking land back
some say it’s a resource
nahh babby it’s a life force
nature has its own laws
fuck what a judge says in court




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