Drexciya & the Alterdestiny Video (MV)

My Mother comes from outer space
My Father's a West African
Though I was born on Betelgeuse
I call myself Andromedan
I know that this is not my home
I'm here because an accident
But I was born with mandibles, and
That makes me an alien
You claim that I make sense to you
You think you know my outs & ins
But you still think in ones & twos
So stop right there & think again
Like, yes, I stand before you now
But no, I won't be by the end
I'll descend from the surface world
I'll disappear to the ocean

I'll disappear, I gotta go
But where to go? Like heavens knows
Exploring new taxonomy
My family transcends history
Imagine us beneath the seas
We're filter feeding as we go
In just a few short centuries
We learned to swim but not to float
In just a few short centuries
We learned to swim but not to breathe
We went beyond our human form
Our music's more than do-si-do
There's other possibilities
This music alters destinies
I speak an ancient cuneiform
If you're confused, well
Now you know

My Mother comes from outer space
My Father's a West African
Though I was born on Betelgeuse
I call myself Andromedan
I know that this is not my home
I'm here because an accident
But I was born with mandibles, and
That makes me an alien

My Mother comes from outer space
My Father's a West African
Though I was born on Betelgeuse
I call myself Andromedan
I know that this is not my home
I'm here because an accident
But I was born with mandibles, and
That makes me an alien


Greetings! from a land of Black Art
So goth I have a Black heart
So witty- do I sound smart?
I want to know my history
My history is Black Art
Skin so Black it's Blue
Blue like blood, my heart
I'm sorry- here is the wack part
Planet Earth's no place for me
I hate the white Wof's history
It's erase, retell, then forget
It obscures so much misery
The painted people know it's true
The white Wof cries mythology
They even stole the story of
The city in the deep Blue sea

This place, named Drexciya
Out of reach of automatons
It's almost like another Earth
By some dumb luck, it's gone untouched
The people there they know there worth
You Earthlings think I'm dumb as f*ck
It might be hard to stomach this
There is way more to existence
SO PRETTY- PRAISE BE D'AWEGOD
Unwitting, I know what I saw
My people under the water
One body for every martyr
Black people ever unconquered
A city unlike another
Unceasing, their rhymes are so raw
So pretty, praise be D'awegod


My Mother comes from outer space
My Father's a West African
Though I was born on Betelgeuse
I call myself Andromedan
I know that this is not my home
I'm here because an accident
But I was born with mandibles, and
That makes me an alien

My Mother comes from outer space
My Father's a West African
Though I was born on Betelgeuse
I call myself Andromedan
I know that this is not my home
I'm here because an accident
But I was born with mandibles, and
That makes me an alien


I hate all your ignorance
I hate you call that common sense
Your history is counterfeit
I hate how humans just forget,
We live so long, so what the shit,
You claim to be intelligent, but
Look at you you're stuck on Earth, so
Maybe you're all full of shit
I claim i've been to other worlds,
You think I think, I know I know
My hair is Pink, with Purple swirls
My skin is Blue like Poliwhirl
Like poliwogs, you see me grow
I'm a rose, watch me unfurl
I am a girl cuz i say so
The universe, she knows she knows

She knows that life takes many shapes
No matter what, she finds a way
No matter what, we will adapt
We can exist in other ways
I worry bout the seeds I plant
But people say plants want to grow,
Like just watch how they grow and change
And you will learn about the world
Imagine that your blood was paint
Imagine that the world's a wall
They think we died so long ago,
But actually we're mythical, you
Kill us but we can't be killed, can't
Drown us cuz we can grow gills,
You thought that you'd be done with me
But I am growing stronger still


My Mother comes from outer space
My Father's a West African
Though I was born on Betelgeuse
I call myself Andromedan
I know that this is not my home
I'm here because an accident
But I was born with mandibles, and
That makes me an alien
You claim that I make sense to you
You think you know my outs & ins
But you still think in ones & twos
So stop right there & think again
Like, yes, I stand before you now
But no, I won't be by the end
I'll descend from the surface world
I'll disappear to the ocean

I'll disappear, I gotta go
But where to go? Like heavens knows
Exploring new taxonomy
My family transcends history
Imagine us beneath the seas
We're filter feeding as we go
In just a few short centuries
We learned to swim but not to float
In just a few short centuries
We learned to swim but not to breathe
We went beyond our human form
Our music's more than do-si-do
There's other possibilities
This music alters destinies
I speak an ancient cuneiform
If you're confused, well
Now you know