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ona li toki e ni: Toki Pona song in memory of Nex Benedict, a wonderful non-binary 16-years-old student assaulted in their school's bathroom on February 7, 2024 after years of bullying due to their gender identity. They died the next day. The song uses a non-traditional scale (the C Symmetrical Augmented Scale) which allows some chords to fit in both their major and minor versions. It's kind of a non-binary scale, you might say. The tempo is 119 bpm (911 backwards), and the whole thing's just under 2 minutes (similar to the assault's duration) Big thanks to soko Miselija for its poem as the basis of the lyrics, for the cover artwork and for lending me its voice.

kulupu toki la ona li music li death li murder li queer abuse

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o sona e ni: transcribed manually

tenpo lili li lili seme?

tan jan Sepulon tan soko Miselija
sike #2024 ) #3 ) #22

tenpo lili pi pali musi li pini
sama ala sama pini pi oko mi
tenpo ni li ante tawa tenpo suli
mi o awen sona e jan Nepenesi

jan li utala e jan tonsi la
tenpo lili li lili seme lon
tomo telo a, tenpo ike ni
ni li seme lon lawa pakala?

toki ike li kepeken tenpo lili
tenpo pi musi ala li sama suli
jan ike li pakala e lukin ma mi
la mi o toki e nimi Nepenesi

jan li utala e jan tonsi la
tenpo lili li lili seme lon
tomo telo a, tenpo ike ni
ni li seme lon lawa pakala?

pini olin li wile e tenpo lili
pini li ken ni awen lon tenpo suli
tenpo li nasa lon utala ale mi
mi o awen sona e jan Nepenesi

jan li utala e jan tonsi la
tenpo lili li lili seme lon
tomo telo a, tenpo ike ni
ni li seme lon lawa pakala?