Blues For The Horn
(专辑: The Dusty Foot Philosopher - 2005)
In a
conservative form I
wanna ask you a
few things before I
conform To the
popular belief about where I
was born Are they still illing, still killing popping the
corn? How's the
horn, how's the
love waving the
ocean morn'? How 'bout the
young, do they still possess the
poetry tongue? And do they still greet sincere like the
depth of the
lung" How's the
nomad, did the
herd graze well this year? From the
news to what I
know, the
growing gap ain't clear! How's the
earth, how 'bout the
stars under we conversed? Do you still await on change like a
new moon's birth? Does it still flood ancient wisdom parallel with blood? Do you still see the
pain of vision holy/only scriptkeeper? Or did you fight off the
plight of the
colonized mind? What of the
rainy season, do the
kids still bury seeds? And get taken with uncertainty like me scared of leavin? '
How are the
poets, the
women and the
orphans torn? I
miss 'em all like, old opportunities gone What of the
elders, story tellers in abandoned homes Miss 'em all like, childhood, reminisce with songs Disputes, do they still settle 'em by bloodying shoes? Fist rules, rather finger equipped with sick tools What of the
wind, I
recall it was serenity's end When the
breeze would come and the
trees would bend And the
people would say "look what it leads with sin" And the
air was violent and our care was silent And the
only law we bore was of pair of tyrants Man you know, this is why I'm down in deep indigo And I
sleep really poor, on the
circumstance floor Anyway, how's stress, does it still rule your chest? Do the
camps still rape girls with no breasts? Our moms, are they still screaming "put away the
arms"? And against the
dispossession of their family-owned farms How are the
many rivers and the
lakes and the
seas? Are they still angry with us for our poisonous deeds? And the
lakes and the
seas For our poisonous deeds This is my blues for the
horn, for the
horn This is my blues for the
horn, for the
horn This is my blues for the
horn, for the
horn So who's dead and who's alive, did the
rates multiply? Did the
poor fight the
drought with their minimum supply? Did the
warlords abort the
wars and for supporting the
peace, they force To promote disease and easening 'creased divorce? What of police and courts, are they still even in force? Leaking pores and cheatedly to the
bleeding corpse What of the
kind and good, can they still, laugh intensely Like the, mind and word or is it, innocense lost as I
understood And what of the
playwrights, reflection in the
scapes of great sights Revolution from power's the
writings of brave fights Despite the
luxury that you hear(d) we live by I
head with refuges and niggers ain't share right, and Don't you play soccer by the
ocean front? In America, I
shovel the
snow while I'm smoking blunts You mean to tell me that you out there still toting guns? Bloating sons of the
hardened, hardly coping moms Damn you and circumstance too I
can't stand you You make a
mockery of our struggle like hollywood plans do And I
swear to god I
wish you hell, burn and bake too And I
curse the
Europeans who instigated you worse And I
curse the
Russians who impregnated the
kalashnikov birth And hurts you never wake and see the
destiny It's like the
conflict of self, submerged in satanic hate Remember eating food, walking back in hot sun from school Bare feet, the
hot sand, massaging our feet is Cause now my mother slips on the
ice and her back is weak And I
feel like a
failure, a
mute in the
age of speech Look at me, yo! look at me, look dead in the
eyes Don't flinch, you are an accomplice to great white lies I
can't even begin to express how breakdown and stressed I
gotta live to tell, give me a
bullet-proof vest This is my blues for the
horn, for the
horn This is my blues for the
horn, for the
horn This is my blues for the
horn, for the
horn