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Favourite FreNemy

from mellowdrama by croc E moses

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lyrics

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

credits

from mellowdrama, released September 11, 2006
Charles Lazar graced us with upright bass. All sounds are croc E except some of the bass drum sounds. Programming by Bruce and croc E.

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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.

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