“If I Could Build My Whole World Around You”
Category: she wants that ole thing back
One of my fav Jay-Z songs ever. He…doesn’t sound like this anymore, and he looks like Kanye. Guy I dated in high school used to play this in his car on repeat, when there was nothin’ to do. And the tension got too thick for his sober mind to cut through…
Jay-Z, “Feelin It”
He kept dreamin’
That someday he’d be a star
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don’t always come true
So he pawned all his hopes
and he even sold his old car
Bought a one way ticket back
To the life he once knew
…means learning how to cook. I’m tryn.
I really like this album
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Sometimes writers have writer’s block
(minus the taco meat)The guy whose CD insert lyrics kept me engrossed like my favorite novel…my “About Me” inspiration…had the nerve to thoroughly excite anyone with an XX chromosome (and some XYs) by announcing a fall tour. After a six-year stage hiatus. And still no release date for that coveted Black Summer’s Night. I liked him better with the fro, but still…be still.
“Get To Know Ya” …They be tryna bring you flowers, you prefer your roses blue/Brothers were tryna get in your trousers, I was just tryna get into you
“Fortunate” …Never had room service all night…
“Let’s Not Play the Game” …Don’t even say stuff you know that ain’t true
“Luxury: Cococure” …Took my icy freeze and thawed the cold
Am I the only person who loves this song and video? Janet looks all types of insane (like, of the Joker variety). And both her and Michael coming together with this us-against-the-world vision, I thought was cool. The video exemplifies the type of insanity people go through sometimes. When they can’t do anything else but scream. I remember when the video first premiered. It turned out to be the most expensive music video ever made. I’m not sure if that’s still the case. I loved the dance breakdown. I think I memorized it. This ish is weird. But iconic to me. (Photo collage by me)
[Michael]
Tired of injustice
Tired of the schemes
Life is disgusting
So what does it mean
They kicking me down
I got to get up
As jacked as it sounds
The whole system sucks
[Janet]
Peak in the shadow
Come into the light
If you tell me I’m wrong
Then you better prove you’re right
You’re sellin’ out souls but I
I care about mine
I’ve got to get stronger
And I won’t give up the fight
You and I both, have been searching, feening, wishing, for some lauryn hill. d’angelo. We won’t stop, right? Can I just see their face? As it was, I mean. They look different now. He, at least, is supposed to be coming back. Better, I hope. Anyway.
I was among you people who used to write down song lyrics. way back in the 90s. what I like to call back in the day. I remember taking out sheets of looseleaf. Writing, “Broken glass everywhere. If it ain’t about no money…” Yeah, not the original version. Puffy’s remake. Showing my age. memorized that whole song. And Left Eye’s verse on TLC’s “Waterfalls.” And when I rapped, I changed my voice to sound like her. High-pitched and nasally. there were others and I wish I’d kept them. Tapes were in vogue then. I bought them. I rewound them. Til I caught every word. Music, hip-hop, writing, consumed me even then and I didn’t know it. Later on I bought a book full of blank pages (my book of rhymes). I wrote down some lyrics I really liked. Like that Maxwell one to the right. they’re sometimes the most beautifullest thing in this world. i’m not sure what the point of this post is.
i’m still learning how to embed music. that’s TK.
“Til comes up the sun
moon goes where it’s from
Sideways, upside down
Ceiling or the ground
Til my lost is found”
(Maxwell)
*sort of related, just cause the song just came on the radio: alicia keys “u dont know my name” when she sings at the end, “and i swear on my mother and father it feels like…oooooh…” Yes.
