New Kindness - Donny McCaslin

This concrete is poured

We might have a minute

We might have an hour or a day or more

Now that we’re post electricity

No memory, no data survives

These first photographs of the pyramids

In an iron mountaintop secure detailed archive

But nothing like that can survive

«I got it I got it I got it I got it» she said

«Club Kidd '85»

«I've got it I’ve got it I’ve got it I got it I got it» she said

«Club Kidd was here, 1985»

When this concrete was poured

In that golden era

Above our means passing on folklore

Now we’re post power

The unmelted guns will writhe

And new photographs of the pyramids

In an iron mountaintop secure detailed archive

But nothing like us could survive

But nothing like us

Nothing like us

Nothing nothing

Nothing like us could survive

Club Kidd was here, 1985

We discovered this city for the first time together

We saw this city the way it wanted to be seen

And its kids say

There’s a new kind comin'

There’s a new kind

There’s a new kindness

There’s a new kind

There’s a new kind comin'

There’s a new kindness

This new concrete’s a blank slate

Will language survive fossilized

We may have made some massive mistakes

But we remain polarized

There’s a new kind

There’s a new kindness

There’s a new kind

There’s a new kind comin'

There’s a new kindness

This new concrete’s a blank slate

Will language survive fossilized

We may have made some massive mistakes

But we remain polarized

There’s a new kind

There’s a new kindness

There’s a new kind

There’s a new kind comin'

There’s a new kindness