Saul Williams Releases New Song “Horn of the Clock Bike”

Rapper/poet Saul Williams has premiered his latest song “Horn of the Clock Bike” via Stereogum.

The track will be found on Williams’s newest album MartyrLoserKing, which is set to release this week on Sept. 18 under FADER. The artist recently finished his North American tour supporting the release with Haleek Maul, who can be heard on their collaborative track “All Coltrane Solos at Once.”

Most recently, Williams released the first single off MartyrLoserKing called “Burundi.” He then released music video for the track two months later.

Now, Williams has released his newest song off the album, “Horn of the Clock Bike.” The release accompanies the simultaneous release of the artist’s newest poetry book, US (a.), according to Stereogum.

The song features Williams hauntingly breathing lyrics, “Smile of the victor / Child of the prisoners / Statues of martyrs / Hackers as artists,” over an eerie piano accompaniment.

Williams released this excerpt from US (a.) to complement the song:

‘Look how they treat us.’
…whispers the innocent sister. Her life barely missed her. Then Patience approached and he kissed her. Love’s like a transistor. Feelings have features. Innocent creatures distort what love teaches. Trade scriptures for preachers, communion for leeches. Earth’s mountainous speakers bombard and boom beat us. On guard to defeat us. You hate us. You need us. You are us. You reek us. The Martyrs and Seekers, sow questions and reap us. More grime than grim reapers. Designer diseases resolved to repeat us. You kill us. You eat us. You grow corn to feed us. You crowd us. You beat us. You crave us. You need us. You slaughter and bleed us. You tax us, harass us, pray, and then eat us. You slay us and feed us, from POTUS to penis, the aborted fetus, the corpses, the meat, us. Make sausage of Jesus. The law says to bleed us. We embody greed, lust. The wrong shepherds lead us.

You can listen to the song below.