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FenG shweet
02:56
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so all this ranting
begat the raging
which begat a beat
and the beat root
which begat the pace and the pulse and the peace
pace and the pulse and the peace
which begat magic
and the sense of common suspense
which begat you as you
you as your own travel agent extraordinaire
in secular soul aspiring to drizzle
can you hear the fuzz
so what's the fuzz?
well....it's the rain river radio
talking to itself like a loud liquid mirror
laughing up unlimited litres of unleaded passion
can you hear the fuzz
it's sheer quantum leap year bliss
pure constant feng shweet
strip poetry omni potent
can you hear the fuzz
it's like hot coals blushing on tip toe of mystery mother tongue
rhythm is the decision
rhythm is the rhythm is the rhythm is the decision
three hundred and sixty five years a day
that's the fuzz
you're the fuzz
i'm the fuzz
this is all the fuzz
this is the fuzz at it's best
it could be that every day is a new universe
it doesn't get better than this
right here
right now
can you feel it
can you feel the fuzz feeling you
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2. |
hard to staY soft
02:34
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it’s hard to stay soft
when there’s an empire on the loose
frost bite cancer kiss on the loop
with no justice just justification
there’s no justice just constant
justification after justification
it’s hard to stay soft
when half strangers spit
and cry laughter in your face
c a u s e t h e y ’ r e l o s t
a n d d u m b f o u n d
in everyman’s land
lost and dumbfound
in everyman’s land
it’s hard to stay soft
w h e n y o u f i n d
i t ’ s y o u r t u r n
to fall pregnant
with your heart
coming out of exile
hearts coming out of exile
it’s hard to stay soft
when forced to reach beyond beyond
beyond dimension beyond skin
exceeding even faith
in each other’s pain
releasing lovehopefear
the chaos of allowing
knowing there’s no waste of darkness
there’s no waste of darkness
that’s why we listen to Blak Sonshine
it’s hard to stay soft
even harder because we get to fulfill
this contradiction together
even harder to unlock
bigger picture focus
to go future free
when the future isn’t
what it used to be
the future isnt
what it used to be
it’s hard to stay soft
s t a y a s y o u c a n
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half assed
half assed like the mist
the backward pattern i am
murky in all my otherness…i am
emergent insurgent detergent
i am the brink of evaporation…tasting bleach
i am frozen in liquidation...the melting con tinues
a merciless con fusion......an inevitable con dition
humanity thou great expanding con artist going
c e m e n t e m e n t a l
i too am going cementemental
it’s my bad altitude hinting
hinting because i’m forgetting
forgetting that the past won’t forget me
that doesn’t mean it’s coming back
obviously the past isn’t coming back
it’s always been here right here full of echo
a s h a d o w t h a t n e v e r g r o o m s
t h e p a s t i s r e s i d e n t r e s i d u e
s c h i z o t o x i n s o f b l u e
unhinged and loitering rent free in my soul
the past is living rent free in my soul
so much so i’m disgusted and disguised
with this kind of sediment
ancient shit for sediment
so much so i’m rapped
rapped in shrink wrap
just another aversion to myself
trying to undream undream
my own straight jacket skin
it is here spread out on the inside that
i’m desperate to find somewhere safe
safe safe safe from myself
it is here i can confess i am
c e m e n t e m e n t a l
definitely cementemental
i can admit i’ve been loaded
loaded in subatomic sentimental drift
a borderline magician a dubious flowtician
a slippery constant you can’t follow
a slippery constant like drinking
l i k e d r i n k i n g w a t e r
i discover myself drinking water
but never tasting it...why
tell me have i become
this tasteless this overdue
this gentle in my numbness
this cementemental
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4. |
pearL peaCh meet
06:26
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i buy you hand made soap
take you home and make you soup
cause it’s winter
and because your book says you’re a luxury
besides you’re feeling nubile for awhile
y o u w a n t t o s m e l l l i k e v a n i l l a
b e c a u s e y o u k n o w i ’ m a h u n t e r
it’s not quite kwaito it’s kwantum kwaito
like a boom like a boom boom looming
like the flinting the flirting the floating
it draws us to go there to gather together
a k i n d o f p i c n i c s t y l e m i s c h i e f
remember mischief is a team sport
like a boom like a boom boom looming
t h e s m e l l o f s o m e t h i n g r i s i n g
in the mists of our bread sheets BLOOM boom boom
and so there we are dipping into each other
h e l p i n g o u r s e l v e s t o h a p p i n e s s
a contagious kind of come uppance
a real live love in the deep lane
l i v e l o v e i n t h e d e e p l a n e
we live love in the deep lane
where the dipping has us dripping
dripping into each other at last
at last not lost we are not lost
we find because we meet the golden bass beat
w h e r e p e a r l p e a c h m e e t
w e f i n d b e c a u s e w e m e e t
pure uncut flavour pure uncut flower
u n c u t f l a v o u r u n c u t f l o w e r
this is the source of super normal deliciousness
o f c o u r s e w e w a n t t h i s f o r e v e r
but now will do now will definitely do
i t ’ s a s e x c e s s i v e c e l e b r a t i o n
where a little vanity never hearts
because we’re feeding back to our souls
at last not lost we are not lost
w e f i n d b e c a u s e w e m e e t
the golden bass beat where pearl peach meet
b l o o m b o o m b o o m
of course, of course we want this forever
but now will do, now will definitely do
live love, live at lot of love in the deep lane
l i v e l o v e i n t h e d e e p l a n e
this is the source this is the source
of super normal deliciousness, happiness
h e l p y o u r s e l f t o h a p p i n e s s
don’t forget mischief is a team sport
that’s us at the scene of the cream
m i s c h i e f i s a t e a m s p o r t
it’s not quite kwaito its kwantum kwaito
l e t s g o s i x t y / s i x t y
I love my lover cause she loves love
I love my lover cause she loves love...I love
we don’t say good bye we say good night
d o n ’ t s a y g o o d b y e s a y g o o d n i g h t
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5. |
Favourite FreNemy
04:48
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are you the plus?
does that make me poes minus…why?
why still so heartless and so very headloose?
i show myself.................. you show yourself
i show you my line you show me your line
good idea because the line is so fine
between you and me…best friend best enemy
s o o n e r o r l a t e r w e b e c o m e
t h e g u i n e a p i g s g o n e g u i n e a f o u l
because we’re stuck on the sourface of our souls
in this situation there’s no peace
o f m i n d j u s t p r i c e o f m i n d
it’s called prisis did you get that
i t ’ s c a l l e d p r i s i s
i t ’ s a c r i s s c r o s s c r i s i s
when the referee blows her whistle
s h e b l o w s h e r r i p p l e o n m e
it’s a red card penalty on the periphery
it’s called sleeping with the frenemy
when i fell in love with my best friend’s mother
imagine my mother and her chemicals of anger
precious just makes pressure
precious poisonous pressure
yes that was me in the proverbial bubble
sooner or later double trouble
it was hectic...hectic hectic hectic
it’s beyond poetic…i’ve been there
over fi fteen years ago i was there
and now i know why there’s
no sympathy like symphony
so obviously i was achin
then i was taken
i was taken ablack
taken ablack when
the graffiti warned
about the whiteness that burns
now i see the inversion rather
than the con version
and yet still we all will
continue to blame someone
always us and them
a kind of random ransom
like my other so called brothers
in the chemical Breeze
no fetish for my goalkeeping
just Fetish for Virgin rekid company check!
it’s nobody’s checkmate…it’s just stalemate
all the rocks that are gonna fall
have already fallen
it’s not fair but that’s not
what gets us anywhere
this could happen to you too
you and yourselfyou and your lover
any of your long lost brothers and sisters
all shooting each other up with our minds
pumping heart shaped bullets along invisible lines
sending heat seeking missiles disguised as love
remember....remember torque is tricky
fi nger on the trigger is always sticky
precious just makes pressure
precious poisonous pressure
we got to realize every minute
of every hour we’re either
best of friends best of enemies
everybody best of frenemies
at least we’re equal when we sleep
rest assured we are equal when we sleep
so people it’s about seeing yourself being seen
l e t ’ s g e t b a c k t o b a s i c e y e c o n t a c t
see yourself being seen like soul in the soldier
souldiers please drop your shoulders
please please don’t police the peace
make space make space make space
calling all frenemies of the state
know that we are raping
raping the mystery
when we should be rapping
rapping about the love mastery
o n e f i n e m a s t e r p e a c e
no more disaster please
got to, frenemies we got to
deserialise our seriousness
derealise our deliriousness
for good’s sakes let go, let god
f o r g i v e y o u r e n e m y
f o r g i v e y o u r f r i e n d
family frenemy again and again
so start removing your armor
everybody praise the new
knights in shining drama
everybody unite in shining drama
e v e r y b o d y j u s t s h i n e
like Madiba said
who are you
not to shine
and by the way
they’re still my best friends
they’re still my best enemies
they are my favourite frenemies
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6. |
six string decompression
02:28
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7. |
sniff snOOpy snoof
04:06
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maybe you get down for the week
maybe you get up for the weekend
let me sing for you happy friday to you
ok ok.... i’ll stop ...enough’s enough
you’ve probably heard nuf about enuf
come on at least let me thank you
for winning and thank you for loosing
the long months of copious winter coffee
where the clouds stash halos on Devil’s peak
c o u l d b e d a n g e r i n t h e m a n g e r
because the head is homeless homeless
the head is homesick without the heart
call it what you want but this sounds
like freelance freeking to me
reeling from orbit to orbit
hopscotch boredom
hopscotch boredom
peeling in yoyo recoil where are we
where are we if we are always spinning
s p i n n i n g a t a c e r t a i n s p e e d
in a very uncertain gear
shifty kind of sticky gear
shifty kind of sticky year
nix is nodig
that means nothing is necessary
nothing is as we thought
hmmm...i guess we all get to be
dumbfounded in the fun folded flippant time
hopefully everybody downloading mind
searching like a little sniff snoopy snoof
sniff snoopy snoof
oh there it is major dot to dot deja vu
deja vu deja vu deja vu danger vu
hands up all escapists and freedom fools
we are floating too high on disguise
from all the attraction to distraction
all the man made magic the messy dreams
it’s throwing us into i-density crisis
it’s throwing us into i-density crises
where are we if we are always spinning
at a certain speed in a very uncertain gear
shifty kind of sticky gear
shifty kind of spiffy loop
nix is nodig
feedback loop
formula one loop
F1 feedback loop..loop...loop
who says repitition cant be a form of change
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8. |
pinK cHurches
03:25
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do you
do you
do you l i e i n s t e r e o
do you ever get the urge to rewind the radio
do you play attention
play attention and listen to your pillow
do you pay to play do you smile when you pray
do you pray do you plant
do you have a plant
do you love your plant
do you know your plant is in love with you
do you do you state the oblivious if it’s obvious
do you do you remember last december
nevermind nirvana in november
do you find your own fault lines fun funny fine
your spine is actually fine
do you get bored with subconscious
cheat on your blindness
do you hide the crack in your face
make the mirror nervace
do you know your weakness is this strong
do you know you’ve just broken your own record
do you curse all your could haves your would haves
well damnit you should have
do you resist symmetry for your own sanity
do you ever think the mercenaries will take up
t r i p h o p d r u m i n
do your words become a weapon when
you sit still with a pen
do you pull your punctures punish with unsent letters
do you b u r n t h e b r e a d b o a r d
do you binge from the fringe
do you p a n i c
do you p a n i c
do you p a n i c
do you meet your bullet your drop(s) to dust
do you risk or do you rust
do you dig for stars
do you search for the drips
i mean do you search for the tap
do you m i s s … t h e d r i p s … a t t h e d o o r
do you seize to believe because you cease to believe
do you fondle your billion honour the thief within…or
do you pass the cushion get the treasure off your chest
do you hear the bleeding only now indulge in healing
do you unzip your mind do you lean on the ceiling
do you practice left hand dishwashing
now close your eyes and try it with no hands
do you feel better because you fail better
do you stalk yourself for loop wholes
grow young grow young as you glow old
do you see do you see pink churches
on the border to the heartland
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9. |
mountain in the sea
09:31
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10. |
poet on strike
01:32
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twenty two
past twenty two
h u n d r e d h o u r s
too late like sunburn?
surely must be making
all the right mistakes by now
it’s not so big and painful now
knowing enough about enough
enough to notice red candle
waxing stereo with moon
surrendering skyline
l a s t r e m a i n i n g
goose bumps persist
seed smiles insist
d r i n k a b l e
l a u g h a b l e
b r e a t h a b l e
b e l i e v a b l e
like poet on strike
kneeling at brook
kissing reflections
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croc E moses Cape Town, South Africa
Born an April fool in sub arctic Canada, croc E moses is now somewhat global African, having lived over half his life in
Swaziland and South Africa. This temperature graduate is now finally poetically licensed. Clever fooligan has made all the right mistakes and has self-realised his irrelevance.
www.croc-e-moses.com
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