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My Wooden Tongue (Things I Remember)

from Naked by Lee

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Lee/ M. Rens/ B. Wolfe
Nacido Libre Music (ASCAP)/ Phoenixcane Music (ASCAP)/ Think Of One (ASCAP)

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I remember living in a one-room efficiency penning Feels Like Summer like it was yesterday
I remember recording 13 Daze only 10 years later to have to give it away
I remember things like open mics, turntables, beatbox, b-boys, b-girls
Emcees, SPs - 1200s, desk-drumming/ Rapping just like DJ Run and them
Sampling beats with peeps back then I called my friends
Going to the studio just to hear your man and them/ And jam with them
Talking about “Whose flow’s the tightest?”/ All nights it’s just some fellas and a microphone
My man gets a call and soon we’ll be headed home
Back then you’d get a beep/ Didn’t have a mobile phone
But nowadays it seems a necessity in a life full of things that’s stressing me
Lord, I hope they understand this

Chorus

One thought, one word, one vision, one cause/ Just to make a mark/ Just to do your part
One person/ One smile, one heart, one life/ Just to light a spark/ Just a work of art
One world, one goal, one dream, one love/ Just to change my life/ Just to make it right
If any man be moved then I have nothing left to prove

Listen, I remember Chuck D., BDP, Marvin Gaye and the Gap Band
When you wanted to fight you’d knock the dirt from his hand
Not yet a man, but you knew the code of the streets
Before small white rocks and A.I.D.S. knocked us from our feet
Funny thing is when we sing things ain’t improved that much
We think it’s better ‘cause they let us drink from studded cups/But now what’s up?
“You got rich when you started slanging dope, but you ain’t built us a supermarket”
Seems when I toss my words get lost/ Lost of the mind of young men
Who can’t yet fathom the fight we must have had way back then
When action was education and education was the key
To be that “Talented 10th”/ To show that you had the strength
To show that you’d go the length and contribute to the greater good
It all got fucked up when rap went to Hollywood
It ain’t all good so please stop saying that
I said and I mean “Bring that ol’ thing back”

Chorus

And through the village he sang walking/ A wondrous sound he made
And to the ears of the others talking/ Noise was all they heard
But one child would hear the sounds whose heart then filled with joy
A sense of purpose was born/ The calling to love was heeded
And then he rested…

Chorus

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from Naked, track released October 1, 2010
Fender Rhodes, organ & saxophones – Brian Wolfe
Guitar – Aaron Lebos
Bass guitar – Mike Rens
Drum programming – Lee
Percussion – Chris Howard
Recorded by Brian Wolfe at The Horn House, Miami, Florida
Percussion recorded by Lee at The Square Egg Nest Studios, Brooklyn, New York
Mixed by Lee & Brian Wolfe at The Horn House, Miami, Florida
Horns arranged by Mike Rens & Brian Wolfe

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