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He said, “Do you want a gin and tonic or a rum and coke?”
Fumbling through her purse she asked for a smoke
Though she gave it up 23 days ago, she puts a stick to her lips and drags real slow
Tonight they're gonna unwind/ Tonight they're going to have such a good time
Tonight they're gonna find that this tonight is like each and every other time
It's all the same though some things change/ Looking for answers in a smoky bar
In all the pain and the numbing of the brain/ Tonight they're going to feel just like superstars
Looking for answers that lonely hearts seek/ The silent words that these smiles don't speak
Untap the mystery to escape the misery/ Tonight they're going to find Love and a place called Ted's
I stepped out of the night tonight/ And I came into the light with you
A place where everything will be alright/ This is the night I'm giving it all away to you
He pours one more drink, he serves one more ale
He pours another round of brews, another night of lonely tales
This neighborhood watering hole, a ritual/ Some glasses half empty, some glasses half-full
Is this a place where the lonely drown their fears? Or maybe the friendly air is what brings them here
There's a suit and tie and a lends an eye to a woman of the night cuz she's looking all right
You see this rent’s gonna to get paid if this deal is made
Night after night these games are played/ Night after night he sees it unfold
The secrets kept, the secrets told
You know, he's thinking to himself that he’s seen it all before, when and walking through the welcoming doors
These fresh new faces from Midwestern places/ A place called Ted's is like an oasis
I stepped out of the night tonight/ And I came into the light with you
A place where everything will be alright/ This is the night I'm giving it all away to you
You got a dollar for the boogie box, Danny? ‘Cause man, I'm sick of hearing Stairway to
Heaven
I want to change this damn song, I heard it all night long/ And I got here at a half past 11
Does anyone feel like dancing with me? Or is anyone down for a quick game of pool?
And on the right cue, like he always do, Anderson comes crashing down off the stool.
Now to you this may seem a sad existence/ But the some this is living, but to some this is giving
This is giving life a chance, giving life freedom/ Letting love flow and letting trouble’s go
I can't really say ‘cause man, I just come to watch I can't really say, but it seems like time stops
I can say that we’ll all be back again to get this need fed at a place called Ted's
I stepped out of the night tonight/ And I came into the light with you
A place where everything will be alright/ This is the night I'm giving it all away to you
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This is a song about persistence in the face of adversity. This is a song about never giving up, about holding on to your dream. ‘Cause you never ever ever know.
She had just one dime in her pocket, but in her heart she had forever.
Walking through the neighborhood mind full of dreams, eager to take in the world all around her. Looking for refreshment, relief from the hot sun. On the pavement baking, making friends with passers-by with a wide-eyed smile, and a friendly wave. She knew that this was living.
But she didn't know about the neighborhood hard knocks who would stop and take the time that she held on to. A toll to pass the block. This was madness. A sadness passed her heart, as she let it go, and let go of her dime, and let go of her smile, and let go of her savings. But saved more than two nickels could ever buy. So she let it go, but loves gonna find her again ‘cause they could never take her dream.
When you feel down better look up. Never know when you'll change your luck. Never know, never know.
They had just one wish and a kiss is what they would seek. They would speak before the dance ‘cause he had taken the chance to ask for her company for this magical evening. Believing she was the one for him, he bought flowers and candy showers. And she showed appreciation. This was the stuff that dreams are made of, and dreams can last a lifetime.
Now in a few months they would part, leaving behind high school memories, and high school laughterm, and high school ways in search of higher learning. Looking for the great beyond. But what was beyond what they knew now to be? This last dance, this last glance. What could be beyond what is so pure? They could only guess as they danced deep inside this dream.
When you feel down better look up. Never know when you'll change your luck. Never know, never know.
He sat with pen and paper in hand at a desk in the dark, thinking he could change the world with his ink. He had come to think that the world only needed one word to change the path, to make a difference with something in different. In a time of time of apathy he wanted something good, something wonderful, something real. A humanity to believe in.
In the world of imitation, gentrification, adulation with material, the ethereal was never pondered so he wondered if any of all of what he had installed would grasp the minds, would grasp the hearts of those that surrounded him, those that found in him a person who cared, a person who shared. A person that held onto his dream.
When you feel down better look up. Never know when you'll change your luck. Never know, never know.
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7 Days
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Phone rang the other day, “Hello, who is this?” Could it be my miss that I burn to be with.
A fiber-optic kiss.
Girl, you so crazy. “What took so long to call me back?” I didn't know that you paged me.
But anyway, but can I say? Wanna know what and how you doing. It's been like two whole days and that long makes my blue when I don't see your smile. When will I see you. So from journaled dialogue I'll bring it to the present tense.
She makes me feel just like track 6. An epic love story, I love to reminisce, these feelings of bliss. We got that weekly agenda, try to follow like the rule. If we skip some days we go on a love binge to better. I get her flowers on every day. I love her in every way. On Tuesdays it’s Faatland for poetry. Oh, it be lovely Wednesday out to dinner, candlelight and jazz. Thursdays a stroll on the beach. These feelings gotta last.
I love her/ 7 days in my week/ I love her/ 24 hours she’s in my heart / I love her/ I can't get her out of my mind/ And everything I do for her whenever we're apart. My 7 days.
Now every since she came around it's her I serenade. She got me feeling like summer, hot chocolate to lemonade. My Kool-Aid grin, you see it melts whenever I hear her laughter. We spend nights in long embraces, and I'm stuck with a love hangover the morning after. Now watch the way she floats and try to tell me you don't feel it. Not the jealous type of fellow, ‘cause shit, y'all just looking. You can either offer a kind word, but not forget the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday excetera. She like the dawn in my morning, the sugar in my coffee, the butter on my toast. You see, I love to hold her close. Fella, she just everything to me this feeling's got to last my 7 days.
I love her/ 7 days in my week/ I love her/ 24 hours she’s in my heart / I love her/ I can't get her out of my mind/ And everything I do for her whenever we're apart. My 7 days.
She made me a man from a boy. She brought my heart joy. It's nothing sexual, it's just spiritual.
She taught me how to love and laugh. She said lead with your heart. Let the universe guide, sit back enjoy the ride. I think in life I found my answer so for that I'm blessed. Don't know if I need searching, she can help me on my quest. You see, every man needs an equal to support him. Never needed the world to believe in me, just one person besides myself. Beside myself I stand amazed at our union. Woman and man united, together we're delighted. So together for forever we continue to reach. I call her my 7 days ‘cause she makes me weak.
I love her/ 7 days in my week/ I love her/ 24 hours she’s in my heart / I love her/ I can't get her out of my mind/ And everything I do for her whenever we're apart. My 7 days.
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Joy In Repetition
05:48
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He like to frequent this club down up on 36th.
Pimps and thangs like to hang outside and cuss for kicks...
Talking to no one in particular, they say "the baddest I am tonight"
Four-letter words are seldom heard with such dignity and bite.
All the poets and the part-time singers always hang inside
Live music from a band plays a song called "Soul Psychodelicide".
The song's a year long and had been playing for months when he
walked into the place.
No one seemed to care, an introverted this-is-it look on most of their faces.
Up on the mic repeating two words, over and over again
Was this woman he had never noticed before he lost himself in the
Articulated manner in which she said them.
These two words, a little bit behind the beat.
I mean just enough to turn u on.
For everytime she said the words another one of his doubts were gone.
Should he try to rap with her? Should he stand and stare?
No one else was watching her, she didn't seem to care.
So over and over, she said the words 'til he could take no more.
He dragged her from the stage and together they ran through the back door
In the alley over by the curb he said tell me what's your name
She only said the words again and it started to rain
Two words falling between the drops and the moans of his condition
Holding someone is truly believing there's joy in repetition.
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Move
04:26
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I told you seven days she's on my mind/ I think about this sweet, sweet thang all the time.
This little lady she's just so fine/ I wanna tell that she's oh so divine.
I wanna take you on this rump-shaking, hip-grinding voyage while I talk about this sweet, sweet lady, she's a trip.
I'm talking about the way she moves her body when we're alone/ Oh, my lord, it's something to sing about.
She got great legs, she got great body and don't let me forget that she got great style.
She makes me beg and she likes to party. She makes this grown man feel like a child.
She likes music 'cause she likes to dance. Her favorite tunes are those Square Egg songs
When I take her home and get her in the bed I'm talking about the way she moves.
She just move back and forth/ She just move, up and down
She just move side to side/ She just move all around
She make me feel like a daydream all right/ I think about her and I scream in sheer delght.
If this is wrong, I don't wanna be right/ She light up my life like the stars do the night.
I wanna tell you all my secret thoughts and talk to you in the language that grown folks do.
I hope you understand I'm talking about the way she move.
She got pretty eyes, she got pretty hair and don't let me forget she got a pretty smile.
I love to touch her thighs in ways down there. She make this grown man feel like a child.
She likes movies. Her favorite pictures are those with Johnny Depp.
I'm talking about the way she moves when we're alone/ Quietness is kept.
She just move back and forth/ She just move, up and down
She just move side to side/ She just move all around
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With a vanilla-flavored smile and a rainbow glow in her eyes to my surprise she noticed me watching her/ Come close, come near/ Now tell me just what brings you here/ She said “I like the music and your way with words/ Listening to it all makes me feel so good”/ Well, I had two grin, a humble blush/ We heard silence and I had to touch/ And at that moment her eyes danced/ And that that moment I took a chance/ To steal a kiss, to steal her heart/ And in return I gave her mine/ She liked the way it fit, so she let me in/ She liked the way it felt so we did it again/ She liked the way it breathed so we let it begin/ And the rest is our love song
Ooh, I'm giving you the best of my love/ Ooh, I'm giving you the best of my love/ Ooh, I'm giving you the best of my love/ Take all you want, take all you want/ I'm giving you all my love
Loving this brand-new feeling, laying in the bed / Listening to the air move, that ceiling fan groove/ Bodies twisting, full lips kissing/ Melting like an afternoon sundae in the midday sun/ She's the one and I'm hers too/ Got me feeling like dewdrops, making my heart stop/ She knows the right combination/ She gives me that easy sensation/ I make her skin wiggle and her lips sing a song/ Her body starts to quiver and I sing along/ To that music, to that rhythm/ It's so soothing/ Ooh, I like what she's giving to me/ This could be our very own special/ This could be our very own forever/ This could be why I've been searching/ And the rest is our love song
Ooh, I'm giving you the best of my love/ Ooh, I'm giving you the best of my love/ Ooh, I'm giving you the best of my love/ Take all you want, take all you want/ I'm giving you all my love
A butterfly kiss is like a birthday wish in our birthday suits/ It's just so cute/ Making breakfast in the morning/ Kisses delivered with milk from your lips/ It's such a trip/ The warm afterglow/ I never wanna go/ Make sure to hold fast so the feeling last/ Got me seeing stars and flowers, clouds and suns/ Hearing bells and whistles/ Then she smiles and it's like the verse starts over/ Take it back at 1 ‘cause this song ain't done/ It's on repeat, listening forever more/ Listening to the beautiful score of a love infinite, the way we bathe in it/ Seal it up and put it away so that we're saving it/ Never ever stop the music/ And the rest is our love song
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I got rain from the night before/ And it smothered the delight before
Nothing to be too excited for/ This is a feeling I try to ignore
The way these dark clouds, they decided to stay
I hope it ain't like this another day
I need some of your sunshine to come my way
I'm hoping that this feeling soon goes away
I'm hoping that this feeling soon goes away
I'm hoping that this feeling soon goes away
And I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say goodbye clouds of lonely, I really wish you well, I wish you well.
Goodbye clouds of lonely, I really wish...
Rainy days, a dismal haze/ And the empty of it all sets in.
Emotional cloudy, and I've found that we're all a little soaked in.
Now what I need is a raincoat to select, to protect from clouds of lonely that pore down
I welcome my ray of sunshine, which is you, to turn that frown of mine upside down.
I welcome my ray of sunshine, which is you, to turn that frown of mine upside down.
And I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say goodbye clouds of lonely, I really wish you well, I wish you well.
Goodbye clouds of lonely, I really wish...
Love-colored rainbows and now my pain goes to seek refuge in a brand new home.
It seems my day's a lot brighter and my heart's a lot lighter now that you're here to inspire these poems.
And I'm like rain, rain won't you go away and please come back another day.
The sun was shining, the clouds turned my life gray, but you're offered me a lease on a brand new day.
The sun was shining, the clouds turned my life gray, but you're offered me a lease on a brand new day.
And I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say goodbye clouds of lonely, I really wish you well, I wish you well.
Goodbye clouds of lonely, I really wish...
Bridge:
Nothing like your love to brighten my moments.
Nothing like your love to see me through.
Love to love you, be near you - just to have you in my life.
And I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say, hello sunshine/ goodbye loneliness
I say goodbye clouds of lonely, I really wish you well, I wish you well.
Goodbye clouds of lonely, I really wish...
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Build
03:16
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I promised myself I'm gonna to dream a little more/ Take my mind to higher heights, ascend into flight/ My metamorphosis is complete, I no longer compete/ A butterfly now, drifting floating/ Throughout this life I'm expanding my range/ Engaged in deep thought, I'm demanding a change/ The contradictions that surround me, the beauty that grounds me/ Whispers in the wind, and now it all begins/ I'm talking about these poetic analogies personified/ I'm talking about what's really real when they all cried, “ If I will it so, it is”/ Laying down the law, high colonics for the soul, showing things you never saw/ Breathing words of liberation, taking you to the station/ Where we all do well, but stayed hidden from our selves/ Stepped out of cocoons, no longer larva stage/ Good's a work in progress, we gonna pen a new page/ Now I done seen a lot of things in my short time here/ I take, store and move on/ Infinite is wisdom when one knows the source/ Immeasurable the value of choosing the right course/ So it's left foot, right foot, and left and back again/ The good guys suffered losses, but we're back to when/ So factor in the truth, you can't hold back the flow/ When the water takes course there's nowhere else to go/ So sink or swim, it's us or them/ Final Conflict engaged/ Good's a work in progress, we gonna pen a new page/ Stage set, place your bets, negatives terminated/ Precisely what we stated so we build
Isn't it a little odd, we keep moving, we keep moving
It's always a little hard, but we keep moving, we keep moving
I made way through life feeling myself an individual, but subconsciously could never shake you/ Everywhere I go, and everywhere I see, you were me, I was you/ Actualization, now that's a breakthrough/ Closer to perfection as we fuse into singular/ Natural selection, I told them inherent/ Felt the call to hear the words, came to see/ Share in the truth/ Eat of my flesh, drink of my blood, together we feast/ Told of Daydreams maybes that became a must/ Unselfish existence, love from dawn to dusk/ Water-like thinking for your spiritual atrophy/ You want refuge from evil? Repeat after me/ Born this, formless, negatives they try to swarm this/ Oblivious, I resist, they could never harm this/ Being of enlightenment, because I've got a tightened grip, on the ways of the wise, butterflies/ Again, mind over matter, everlasting wins the bout/ This sanctuary for love, cast the evil ways out/ Live your days out spreading this unpopular mind frame/ Laying foundations for when things change so we build
Isn't it a little odd, we keep moving, we keep moving
It's always a little hard, but we keep moving, we keep moving
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A Letter From U
05:11
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Just what I needed was another lonely metaphor to tell you just how I feel about you.
I was searching through this hurting for ways to say that I just can't live without you.
Then came these syllables full of meaning screaming the honest truth to my heart.
There aren't words designed to describe the fact that I can't stand that we're apart.
So I just sit and soak up the feeling/ sobbing what I need is healing.
Words on paper can't fill the void/ left by the thief who came and stole my joy.
And I don't need a sign/ And I don't need a rhyme.
To help me pass the time sitting here waiting on a letter from you.
Just what I needed was another sad chord to tell me that I'm empty now that you're gone.
I was searching through these notes for a melody to tell to come on back home.
And I don't need a beat/ And I don't need no chords.
To take away all of these cliches and songs.
All I want is a letter from you/ So give it to me one time.
Just one
Just what I needed was another lonely dinner in the city at our regular table for two.
Food just ain't the same without you/ Now tell me what am I supposed to do?
Passion kisses from my Mrs./ I miss this like chardonnay.
Lips taste like wine/ Were all mine, but this is gone like yesterday.
So I just sit and wash away the feelings/ Searching for ways I try to heal me.
Intoxicants they cannot save me/ All I have is these tears here to bathe me.
And I don't need my friends/ And I don't need memories.
You can have all of the parties, momma/ All I want is a letter from you.
So give it to me one time...
Just one
Bridge:
Sitting here in this lonely room with only my conscious and silence as companionship...
And all I wish I had was one sweet, sweet letter from you...
Just what I needed was another lonely metaphor to tell you just how I feel about you.
I was searching through this hurting for ways to say that I just can't live without you.
Then came these syllables full of meaning screaming the honest truth to my heart.
There aren't words designed to describe the fact that I can't stand that we're apart.
So I just sit and soak up the feeling/ sobbing what I need is healing.
Words on paper can't fill the void/ left by the thief who came and stole my joy.
Will you just show me a sign/ 'Cause I have written a rhyme?
And I'm done passing time/ Sweet momma, all I wanted, girl, is a letter from you.
So give it to me one time...
Just one
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Sing to me and my baby sweet lullabies/ I see your friends ain’t in the skies tonight/ It's all clear, no twinkles/ So tell your sister to hug us on this warm summer night and embrace us tight while you sing to us/ Lovers all giddy while you repeat your melody/ Relish the feelings of serenity of in your soothing sounds/ They hit me like a four-part harmony/ It’s just disarming me, taking me back to the early stages of breath til nothing's left/ But a kiss to deliver, you see I feel her shiver in your arms ‘cause she's in love/ Hey now, what's going on is the Jones/ And ain't nothing wrong at all/ I'm just hypnotize by your vocal arrangements/ While you sing to us your sweet song and it goes
I got this feeling that I can't hide/ When I'm around you I hear a sweet lullaby
I got the sand on my feet, and the wind in my hair/ A smile on my heart, and we don't have a care/ I'm just sitting back feeling you, you've got a captive audience this evening/ That proverbial breezing again hugging me, my honey loving me/ It's so lovely we here, we cheer/ Encore, song more, fill my ears and heart with peaceful sounds/ No one's around so we’re engulfed in the romantic air, a stare a licking then a kiss/ A smile and then me and my lover, we take a roll in the sand/ I say again it's nothing sexual, it's just spiritual/ A bit of social intercourse/ The feelings we have, we smile, we laugh/ While you sing to us tonight your sweet song and it goes…
I got this feeling that I can't hide/ When I'm around you I hear a sweet lullaby
Whisper to me/ Call my name/ See right through me/ Make me tame/ I'll wrap myself around your shoulders tonight/ Just watch my endless body twinkle in the light
Now as the sun rises the next day to greet me with a kiss on the cheeks/ It's slowly warming my bronze skin/ Like being reunited with an old friend/ Now let me tell you that the sky is blue, the love I feel is true/ These birds, they singing in joy oh, the love of this girl and this boy/ These feelings of daydreaming relived/ The serenity that your sounds give/ It's like you hushed me to sleep the night before/ I might return with the dusk just to hear some more/ But the dawn it brings a new good morning tune/ And like I told you once before, you surely know I'm just feeling you/ Well rested, counting blessings, preparing to engage in yet another - day filled with adventures and answers/ Still a smile on my heart, as this day starts/ Appreciating your beautiful lullaby, and it goes…
I got this feeling that I can't hide/ When I'm around you I hear a sweet lullaby
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Let my imagination swim/ Let it get the best of me/ My words flow easy/ Live out my destiny
And question me on how I try to breathe and move/ Best believe I got nothing to lose
The news don't affect the way that I walk/ Popularity don't affect the way that I talk
Drum beat speak dictate the way that I spark/ Living for the first light so I try to live right
Today’s another chance and a brand new play/ A new circumstance and a brand new way
Shifting in my mind, shifting in time/ Drifting, and find shores of hopes and dreams/ And promises gleaned
Under the sheen of illusion life can be confusing/ But try to hold fast and make that dream last
When you hear it, the human spirit/ Answer the call, romancing it all/ Chance and you'll fall, but loving it all
Under the sun we will rise, we will shine, we will find peace of mind
Reach the skies, no more cries, dry your eyes, we will rise, no more lies
Under the sun we will rise, we will shine, we will find peace of mind
Reach the skies, no more cries, dry your eyes, we will rise, we will rise
Now you gotta get yourself a way to find it/ Peace, you need it in your heart
Of what you seek, of what you feel, you know you need it/ So get it right
Under the bright sun ignite one idea to change the world/ Potential unfurls
Needed reason to believe, a reason to achieve something enormous/ Something wonderful
Had hopes shattered and torn, Splattered and born to the asphalt from a violent assault
It wasn’t his fault/ Wrong place, wrong time, wrong mind framing when bullets take aim
They don't know names when they stop would-be leaders, virgin visionaries
Who carry the promise of tomorrow/ Mothers drowning in sorrow
Mean streets breed mean streaks/ So they won't see the first light, and that’s a sad truth
Under the sun we will rise, we will shine, we will find peace of mind
Reach the skies, no more cries, dry your eyes, we will rise, no more lies
Under the sun we will rise, we will shine, we will find peace of mind
Reach the skies, no more cries, dry your eyes, we will rise, we will rise
And planting seeds of change to fight poverty
And feed babies today, and make leaders for tomorrow
I got a feeling that love gonna last/ I got a feeling that something special is here
I got a feeling that we're gonna war no more/ I got a feeling that the time is now
But like I said through it all I got to say that I just got a feeling
Radiation of light with the sunrise/ Look into the mind's eye to see the truth is in us
Inherent, invincible, in touch, in-tune, and in you/ Inevitably we gonna be set free
Free from the chains that hold, the chains that told the free spirits to dance no more
To sit stil,l but instead we dancing to the light of a brand new day
Under the sun we will rise, we will shine, we will find peace of mind
Reach the skies, no more cries, dry your eyes, we will rise, no more lies
Under the sun we will rise, we will shine, we will find peace of mind
Reach the skies, no more cries, dry your eyes, we will rise, we will rise
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I'm sleeping on the bus, I'm cruising around my town
Sonia’s in my ear, I'm like oozing with the sound
Laidback relaxed, nowhere special to go/The bus is moving kind of fast for me I'm moving slow
Eyelids shut tight/ It wasn't a bad night before/ I'm just daydreaming
No Dungeons & Dragon type of hype/ Just something for that naked white
Slowly visions enhance/ It’s cats and dogs/ It's whatever I make it
The people they came to see me they came to share in our words
I said eat of my flesh, drinking my blood, together we feast
You know we feasting on each other, but they did not understand that we learn and grow together it's all part of the plan
Sit down and let me consume you love and drink it tender thoughts
On each other we nourish so together we play
Don't wake me when I reach my stop/ My stop ain't a stop it's just a pause in my continuum
So let me keep moving through space and time/ I'm chasing rhymes
I’m enhancing my mind/ Seeing what I find
A fine line in reality and what I can make become/ Fiction there's really none
It's just that mind over matter/ Corridors of perception/ Call it fantasy, but it enhances me
A woman white as snow, you know she crosses my path/ The onlookers as they all stopped They giggled, snickered, and they laughed
Smiles radiated as far as the eyes could see
I reached up to the sun with my eyes so it could warm me
Adorn me in a bronze glow, the feast to never famine, that of love it was abundant in life's every turn
Learned where the lessons of love taught by the dogs
Impulsive were the cats that traveled room-to-room
Man broke from the bondage/ I saw all the faces
Felt like I'd come home/ Never again be alone and so I daydream
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Let It Ride
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I put writes on naked white paper/ To shape your minds with these rhymes
Ink to leaflets when the beat gets hot/ Write to let the mind release, scribble inkblots
Between margins to form these phrases/ It's so amazing how I blaze
And now these fragments form in these quiet storms
Of the thoughts, the flow when I let words go from my skull to my lips/ And man it's such a trip
I impressed myself if no one else/ I gathered these ideas, mastered for years
And I channel like that, kick, snare and hi-hat
Lay the bed for the layers of the fresh rhyme-sayer/ You could get it now or understand it later
Or maybe never comprehend how these words blend/ Fuck it, man, I’m such a trip
Let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride
If it feel good so you just let it ride
Let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride
If it feel good so you just let it ride
I got the a e i o u/ Eradicator of the flu/ Linguistic, man this flow is mystic
This shit just hits, it's like, “Lee, please go easy on ‘em my man!”
But I can't stop/ Bic to a strip/ I begin to nic into the pad add poetic manuscripts
Flip hair follicles with my word molecules and lyrical dynamic you take for granted
But know no other speaker with words that can reach you
Through the mic mesh and sound so fresh and dope and fly
He's such a guy, a unique fellow, he freaks it's so mellow
Shake your ass like Jell-O, or boogie or move, ride with the groove
‘Cause it just soothes and moves your body and your mind
But like I said I'm such a trip
Let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride
If it feel good so you just let it ride
Let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride, let it ride
If it feel good so you just let it ride
I never be doing for myself, don't be rhyming for my health
Be using this incorrect lingo to bring foes too knees
Enemies be folding/ Be molding masses, moving asses when holding true to form
When not of the norm/ Be building and yielding to progress
I bless mic mesh so I strike and test your cheese style fairytales
Bury week individuals so you could be hard as you please 6 feet under
The worry and they wonder/ With words like thunder
I bring fear tunneled through the ears of foes and everyone knows
Soon to be undisputed with words so crisp and unpolluted
You heard it and you knew that I was gonna do it and no one could stop it
When I rock it/ Man, I’m just such a trip
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Standing here watching the sunset with you on my mind getting my feet wet
The ocean day and this ocean breeze/ The day retires and my heart's pleased
With you on my mind and a glass of wine/ A crisp Chardonnay and I look to a new day
This moments frozen like sands in a glass/ Watching all the new lovers pass
Say hello to new opportunity/ Say hello to new possibilities
Say hello to the gleaming moonlight/ Say hello to our loving hearts’ delight
We got a good thing, it's a sure thing/ In full swing, it's our thing
My heart sings and your eyes gleam, baby, let's not fight this feeling
I can't fight this feeling so I just reveal it
I can't fight this feeling, no way
Can you feel that? Well, I can/ That's the feeling of new love birthed/ Unrehearsed
It's unrestrained, a love untamed/ That's the feeling of now
When you look into my eyes you can see the joy for the fact that there's you and me
The joy for the fact that were in this time/ The joy for the fact that you are mine
The joy for the fact that I am yours/ It's an all-consuming love, you can hear it in my voice
In every phrase, in my every speak/ The way that your smile makes my heart weak
I get so excited, I get so delighted/ I get so that I can't hide it, this feeling, baby, let's not fight it
I can't fight this feeling so I just reveal it
I can't fight this feeling, no way
Watch this feeling grow and bloom/ Watch this loving flower
I could stand here looking in your eyes telling you that I love you for hours
And it wouldn't be enough I would need more/ Being in your loving arms is what I live for
I live for the laughter, and I live for the smiles/ Loving you all the while
Magic moment of serenity in time/ This magic moment I am yours, for sure you are mine
We got a good thing, it's a sure thing/ In full swing, it's our thing
My heart sings and your eyes gleam, let's not fight this feeling
I can't fight this feeling so I just reveal it
I can't fight this feeling, no way
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Lips look like moonlight, sweet dancing butterflies/ You got me feelin’ high
Smile like rainbow, I need you here with me/ You got me feelin’ high
I got this girl down the street, so sweet/ Her a try to meet I’m riding out like everyday
But she passes me by like the spring, summer, winter and fall/ Still in all I got nothing to say
I got the boom boom boom in my heart/ I feel the frenzy, but this skirt see, she ain't never ever speaking
I give the digits to the friends of the dame, she knows my aim/ But my pager’s never beeping
I got the flowers twice a week, delivery/ I send a card to admire, but the florist says I only get the smile
I send the candy on the Valentine's/ I asked her if she'll be mine, but my efforts don't seem to be worthwhile
I get the latenight calls around 10 to her friends and they tell me that she ain't at home
I got the answering machine filled with messages, but don't have a ringing phone
Lips look like moonlight, sweet dancing butterflies/ You got me feelin’ high
Smile like rainbow, I need you here with me/ You got me feelin’ high
I got the calendar marked for the birthday, the first day of the rest of our lives
I got the hand towels for the washrooms, cookie jars for the kitchen/ I got your bedroom surprise
I got the smiles when I see you, all the girls want to be you/ I got your company when you're feeling lonely
I got the man that you need/ I got the loving the feed your hunger if you ever need to phone me
I got the different from the rest, it's magic, tragic/ This way that I feel about you
I got the fortress for the lady in my life/ I got the 100% trust ‘cause I never, ever doubt you
I got the runaway, paradise, feels nice, feels free, you and me off and a zone
I got no TV, no paper, no people/ I think we're all alone
Lips look like moonlight, sweet dancing butterflies/ You got me feelin’ high
Smile like rainbow, I need you here with me/ You got me feelin’ high
I got the seeking and I'm sulking/ The looking, you ain't finding time and my paltry so sultry
I got the nothing's ensuing, my friends asked me what I'm doing/ I get the two snaps ‘cause ain't no haps for that
I got the sugar that I'm asking, other skirts is hasbeens/ You got me trying to get wit ya
I got a long life of trials, but when I see you smile then I know that I got through
Lips look like moonlight, sweet dancing butterflies/ You got me feelin’ high
Smile like rainbow, I need you here with me/ You got me feelin’ high
Your language, your body, your energy, and juices, thoughts, concepts, vision all flowing like water. More like honey, seamless in its flow, rich in its texture and golden in its reflection. Most importantly, equally as sweet.
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