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LIKE THE REST OF US
see i've been here for thirty some years
looking at myself in the same dirty mirror
so it ain't like i don't comprehend
open that bottle
swallow that friend
no crime to take a little too much
got time to drink away a few months
got a little cocaine habit
but he says he only does it if someone else has it
do that shit
do that shit lady
she went vegetarian for the baby
third trimester see the kid kick
she showed me outside and
she gave me a cigarette
shit there's no way to measure it
not every pony grows up to be a pegasus
you gotta let people be hypocrites
count your blessings
and mind your businesses
stuck with yourself like the rest of us
dirt gets done and then we back to dust
runnin in place
sun in my face
let me fly away
heaven won't wait...2x
heaven won't wait
let me fly away
getting no where everyday ....2x
just trying to keep my mind on work
it's like that's the only way to love this life on earth
it's like everyone takes number one in the race
cause we all keep running in place
here kitty kitty can't train that fox
must be drinking that name brand scotch
all of us cut from the same damn cloth
some of us never cut the price tags off
she ended up on the pole
with her heels pointing at the jesus she used to know
stripped her down to her naked body
we made her drown in a lake full of patriarchy
in between the pride and the misery
with an infinite supply of sympathy
are these invisible walls that hold me
like this goldfish bowl is the whole scene
stuck with yourself like the rest of us
dirt gets done and then we back to dust....
PUPPETS
i know a guy with a rockstar life
but he still don't fly so he's mad at the sky
he sits me down
he kicks his wisdom
he's been around
now give him a listen
seems like he's got a lot of complaints
about how nowadays things ain't the same
he used to place some faith in the basement
a toast for the sky and those kids that he came with
cause they all on the same shit
based on cut down placement
uptown stay strong
don't ever do a dance with the devil now
that smile is a sign that you're selling out
judgement
gossip
ethics
lets just exploit all this excess
you can feel how it feels
to walk around town looking down from them tall heels
and who needs fame or fortune
when you get the same love that the fame is snorting
future so afraid of yours
that shit straight from the course
and you came up short
believed you would have more credibility
if you wasn't just another drunk pill junkie
it's obvious to me that he's still hungry
for the superstars
a little bad lucky
go ahead and get mad at god
point your fingers at your dad
and ask santa claus
listen all y'all it's a sabotage
wouldn't look so bad with the bandage off
it goes
one for the bar tab
two for the shine
lets go to your car and do another line
barely trust em
they're all puppets
love is nothing scared of success
one for the bass
two for the drums
last call gonna take whatever comes
barely trust em
they're all puppets
love is nothing scared of success
i think it's great how you used to be great
i can't hate on how you choose to relate
but i know that you had the potential
i understand why you wanted to let go
a lot of pressure in the middle of those shoulders
and we ain't get nothing but older
ain't nothing changed but the day we run from
but nobody knows it better than you huh
one for the bar tab
two for the shine
lets go to your car and do another line
barely trust em
they're all puppets
love is nothing scared of success
one for the bass
two for the drums
last call gonna take whatever comes
barely trust em
they're all puppets
love is nothing scared of success....2x
--- atomsphere from 'when life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold'
damn, atmosphere is hard to transcribe
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: ) win or lose..freedom
"I'd rather live and die..live and die..over and over again than just sit here dying." - me to the ex when she told me i would fail miserably without her.
thank you, do0d..that was good stuff.
IN THE FLEETING HAND OF TIME
On the steps of the bright madhouse
I hear the bearded bell shaking down the woodlawn
the final knell of my world
I climb and enter a fiery gathering of knights
they unaware of my presence lay forth sheepskin plans
and with mailcoated fingers trace my arrival
back back back when on the black steps of Nero lyre Rome
I stood
in my arms the wailing philosopher
the final call of mad history
Now my presence is known
my arrival marked by illuminated stains
The great windows of Paradise open
Down to radiant dust fall the curtains of Past Time
Light winged light O the wonder of light
Time takes me by the hand
born March 26 1930 I am led 100 mph o'er the vast market
of choice
what to choose? what to choose?
O ---- and I leave my orange room of myth
no chance to lock away my toys of Zeus
I choose the room of Bleecker Street
A baby mother stuffs my mouth with a pale Milanese breast
I suck I struggle I cry O Olympian mother
unfamiliar this breast to me
Snows
Decade of icy asphalt doomed horses
Weak dreams Dark corridors of P.S.42 Roofs Ratthroated
pigeons
Led 100 mph over these all too real Mafia streets
profanely I shed my Hermean wings
O Time be merciful
throw me beneath your humanity of cars
feed me to giant grey skyscrapers
exhaust my heart to your bridges
I discard my lyre of Orphic futility
And for such betrayal I climb these bright mad steps
and enter this room of paradisaical light
ephemeral
Time
a long long dog having chased its orbited tail
comes grab my hand
and leads me into conditional life
- Gregory Corso
thanks again..
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i like the whole album, but for some reason when i was listening to those tracks waiting around for the bus yesterday i thought of you. did you listen? i LOVE atmosphere (yeah i spelled it wrong up there...duh) i really love slug's words for obvious reasons, but ant's beats are good too. other rappers on their label are good too ( rhymesayers.com ) midwest hip_hop .... is that an oxymoron?
and the even bigger oxymoron, my brother started listening to them and brother ali and lyrics born and immortal technique after he moved from ohio to hawaii....maybe it's like a piece of home for him.
but atmosphere are urban_bodhisattva s in my estimation. bringing the suffering to light, trying to help people with the music showing a common plight. hip_hop that actually has a positive spin instead of just objectifying shit. interesting concept...
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(i'm glad you are finally rid of that psycho....)
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when rap first came out...there was a lot of positive sh--. ye, i know what you mean. and yea...i listened.. Puppets is in my music folder now. ; )
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yeah, well i guess i'm too young to remember that ;-)
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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
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Loved the tools he had. Wish I had something like that. Also wish I had access to the data he did. Guess I'll just have to browse a little harder.
Thanks LS
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I figured www.ted.com would be a great resource for you. This one just seemed appropriate as a good interduction to what they do there.
Personally, I hope to see you speaking on it someday.
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