by Jo Schaffer
ROSE PETALS
Oil on my headboard..
I'mma try my hand at the future.
Oil on my headboard..
I'mma try my hand at the future
I see..
I see..
I see..
Dark matter replacing light
Dark meat being preferred
Your mac and cheese with an egg in it:
Artisanal,
Modern grocery stores would call it
Systems dismantled
Automatic ones in place
Out this beaurapitalist, capitocratic mess
No, Yes
No, I don't think we gon' do away with race but..
We may call ourselves ethnotic more specifically
There's always gon' be a place for the low end..
But it won't look how it do now.
No, they'll be free and bound.
An influx of light matter in the ghetto and the jails
Where the light lowers the property value
The loop the new bubble..
The landfill further filled out for the new projects..
The term honkey a term of respect
And the streets will be the streets
But with dinner tables lining the sidewalks
And everybody's strapped
In case a cracker venture too far off the red, the blue or the green line..
And a new line,
The black line,
It'll run you from over east to Austin..
It is our city's first bullet train..
And there's oil on my headboard
IN OUR TIME
I’ve been watching you from 3000 miles away
Fin’ly found the time to pay
Rewrote this song today
Wondering how many days
How many ways
There’ll be before we meet
Ye es es es, I I I I ca an carve a way
But there’s no need to make you stay
The distance dulled my senses butI’d lose them anyway
Tasting fa God
Discerning my own affairs
Giving you little care
To how you change
(Scat)
Dat- da-doo dat-doo dat-doo
Dat- da-doo dat-doo dat-doo
Doo- doo- doo- doo
Dat- da-doo dat-doo dat-doo
Doo- doo- doo- doo
Who lives without regret?
I don’t know
But I’ve felt bigger pain
(Mmm-mm-mmm)
And in moving on
Know there’s much to gain
(Hmm)
I’ve been watching you from 3000 miles away
I’ll get there someday
We’ll reach a common place
And i f love never calls our names
I’ll find a way to show I’m still the same
Dat- da-doo dat-doo dat-doo
Dat- da-doo dat-doo dat-doo
Doo- doo- doo- doo