1. |
Assume Fire
03:32
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Assume fire
It's a heartless place
Bygones with big bombs and air cons
And empty space
It's a mindless case
Bygones with beer bongs and sitcoms
And lacking grace
Assume fire
Meaning what?
Wall wall wall
Break-down, build back up
The kind tire
Meaning what?
Fall Fall Fall
Ground down and cry
For what’s left
It's a sunken place, silence from
Wallpapered violence
And playing face
It's a heady case,
Victims of psyche, od, and strategy
And saving face
Assume fire
Meaning what?
Wall wall wall
Break-down, build back up
The kind tire
Meaning what?
Fall Fall Fall
Ground down and cry
For what’s left
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2. |
Immensely I
04:57
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Immensely I
I once was a woman
In my mother
Under her beating drum
Now I'm a baby boy
No sense of myself
Dressed in blue
In a church song
Crying…..crying mother
Birthdays, schooldays, fire brigades
I need to be hungry
There's so much I don’t know
I need to be thinking
There's so much I don’t need to know
I once was a woman
In my mother,
Under her lighting brain
Now I’m a man-child
With my memories
To much sense of myself
Dressed in blue in church song
Crying...crying mother
Birthdays, schooldays, fire brigades
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3. |
Lady in a Paris Dress
02:35
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Lady in a Paris Dress
I am not grounds for mow
I got my house and made it this home
Where i live,
In my head
All by myself
And some of us
Are in better situations ...some of us
(To Quote Boho Dance, Joni Mitchell)
A camera pans,
A cocktail hour behind a blind of potted palms
And finds a lady in a Paris dress
With runs in her nylons,
With runs in her nylons…..
And you were in the parking lot
Subterranean by your own design.
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G.I Wonder
Funny how the bread of a lover
Always seems to be the reason you go
Truthful how the ones that you love most
Always seems to be the problems you show
Don’t pretend the mocker or miser, ever
Knew the way to something unknown
Doin just a little Eliza
For approval of the man with the stone
Time lives over misery
You’ll see, I’ve tried to be someone else's lover
To long
Fascination for you is gone
Don't compare the tricks of a jester to the
Dirty little tricks of your own
Two of us in this situation, still there's
Only one of us who has grown
Funny in the light of reflection you were
Using me in search of your home
Doin just a little protection
For approval of the man with the stone
Time rules over certainty
You’ll see, I've tried to be someone else's lover
To long
Fascination for you is gone
G. I Wonder
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5. |
Nature/Nurture
04:45
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Nature/ Nurture
Nature nurture warm remains,
Cooling ember earthly brains,
Teach the students quietly
Reflect the rhythm society needs
Nature nurture all i know,
Keep the music Ebb the flow
Teach the people, wake them slow
Reflect the rhythm beats we know
And love
Swift and able we glide,
Learning truth about mind,
Nature nurture my time
Caress the freedom in a bottle of wine
Keep the spirit stable
Keep the kindness able.
Nature nurture my time
Nature nurture time we have
Keep the peace n make it last
Teach the way and show the path
Take the time but do it fast, do it fast
Swift and able we glide, (ohohoh)
Learning truth about mind,
Nature nurture my time
Caress the freedom in a bottle of wine
Keep the spirit stable
Keep the kindness able.
Keep the spirit stable
Keep the kindness able.
Nature nurture my time
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6. |
Who Decides
03:19
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Who decides?
Bending over knee,
People talking over me so loud,
Everywhere I turn
Understanding leaving me out
Oh who decides,
What's right for my time
Is good for my mind
Who decides?
Watching tv shows
people with their fancy clothes so loud,
Every channel turned,
Understand leaving the crowd
Oh who decides,
What's right for my time
Is good for my mind
Who decides?
Day or night, it doesn’t matter,
Fight or flight, it’s a show,
Wrong or right, it don’t matter,
The gifts you got the gifts you throw away.
Oh who decides,
What's right for my time
Is good for my mind
Who decides?
Hypnotizing me,
big markets and cooperations goal.
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7. |
Dr. Simone
05:24
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Dr. Simone
(Lyrics adapted from Spoken Word written by Taalam Acey)
Mother hoped I would surpass,
at least to the middle class
But yet I'm still stuck on that same mentality
And all those years of schooling, ain't even challenge me
But when I graduated, life was right there
To put a degree in my hands, and a foot on my chest
And here I am, dressed in my pajamas
About to run outside and rip the backbone out this fool
Ain't got nothing to show for all those years of school
But...bad credit and even worse decisions
And I live in a neighborhood where people buy food on credit
So they finance but they don't just take
And they're making payments on food that they already ate
And I’m scathing open the door like I’m about to break
And I see my best friend with a gun in his hand
And with his other hand,
he takes a swig of liquor from a bottle of scotch
AND ITS LIKE EVERYTHING STOP
Chrous
And we drive, and we drive, and we drive until we get to the part of town
Where the American Dream is still alive
And in my mind, I'm playing NINA SIMONE
And I wonder if he knows that tens of millions of people in this world/
Are depressed but use alcohol and drugs to remain in denial
And I wonder if he knows there's a suicidal tendency
Hiding behind a smile
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