We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Adjectives (Kavi)

from Whole > Sum Parts by AllOne

/

about

Try as they might, even the most profound words can't describe the most profound experiences.

KAVI has quickly become a great friend the past year or so, not only is he a multi-faceted artist whose work I admire, but he's a hilarious friend whose creative intentions and aesthetic as well as general world-view I really relate to. We've done nearly a dozen freestyle episodes in my weekly "Spontaneous Sundays with AllOne" series and he's a fantastic improviser. He's been working on his "Words" EP this year and when he asked me to be on the "adjectives" themed song, I couldn't refuse. We wrote the song in an hour or two during a creative/filming session. This is the newest song on the compilation, released the same week. Much more to come from Kavi and I!

lyrics

KAVI:
It’s not enough to tell you that you’re beautiful
Drop dead gorgeous, brought me to life when pharmaceuticals
Were threatening to meet both you and me at my own funeral
Years together are numerals, made a man out a juvenile

AllOne:
To call you “hardworking” is inadequate
simply isn't the adjective, you're disciplined and passionate
you're Sisyphus and Atlas yet mythic isn't the half of it
your brilliance is at the wick, twin ends of the candle lit

KAVI:
It ain’t even a thing to say that you’re patient
Your grace slows time for whatever you’re facing
Any struggle is nothing, nothing makes you complacent
Time isn’t wasted if it’s you that I’m chasing

AllOne:
if I call you selfless, it doesn't sell it
when I call your cell helpless, you relish that you'd quell it
My mind's a cell and I'm a felon, I'm unwell eyes are wellin'
I've fell in when a path's hellish, you're an empath, angelic

KAVI:
You’re intelligent, elevated, eloquent
Meditative, medicine for me to feel the elements
Celebrate you everyday, anyway to get a bit
Closer to understanding you

AllOne:
Language can't capture each life's conditions
we rely on diction to describe/depict it
Interesting: the experiences we find so vivid
that define our image can defy description

Chorus:
I'm sitting here writing bout you
thinkin bout what I'm gon' do

credits

from Whole > Sum Parts, released March 26, 2019
Lyrics written and performed by
Kevin "Kavi" Varghese (itskavi.bandcamp.com)
and Bruce "AllOne" Pandolfo
Beat by Bad Boi

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

AllOne image

AllOne

Left-field rapper, slam poet, singer/songwriter, and author Bruce Pandolfo from Long Island.
Creating to connect. Obsessively exploring and creating art as healing and growing.

contact / help

Contact AllOne

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

AllOne recommends:

If you like AllOne, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now