Mr. Phillips and I had been wanting to work on some new material together, and it just so happened that St. Thrillah, the admirably talented producer, was working on his mixtape, and so we got together to do this song, marking my second hip-hop collab, and second with Mr. Phillips. I took the song to be a lot about obsessive dedication to ones' craft, no matter the extensive obstacles that are put in front of you or how the path may be taxing and stressful.
lyrics
I won't talk shit, though I prefer your minds to fertilize//
I've personalized this sermonized skirmish guide
to help you see by feeling words (like braille had cured the blind)//
Bookworm-ish wordsmith, determined, spry//
certifiable porcupine with the weighty quills that I'm burdened by!
And a lurking pile of fecund thoughts and thirsty lines//
burning eyes, working 'til my circuits fry, servantile//
worried I won't purify this world enough before I die!//
Stress impossibly high, periodically I neurotically write//
Insomnia style; all through the night, exotic colliding chaos in my mind//
oddities wild, solemn excited, deposit advice in the projects I type//
and I'm trying to make every song I devise a mnemonic device!
In "All's" best hopes: when I'm bald and old//
I'll be Paul Edgecomb, as you'll find that I'll live much longer//
and a Coffee's "spark" prompts every tall tale told in your headphones proper//
I make progress but I get no farther (Penrose walker)
Bell tolls: telemarketing, hell froze: hollering, death's cold calling//
and I just won't bother with it, Bless Rosewater!
Dead broke author. Spent the whole vault on an old pipe dream exhausted//
Nearly blew a gasket, finding a fallow faucet!//
Walking on eggshells, no plan is hatching//
So I'm doggedly after that mechanical rabbit//
And my work is analogous to that of Natalie Babbit's//
(when my plan might "spring" and immortalize me as in Tuck Everlasting!)
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.
Deeply vivid/introspective lyrics populate this ambitious folk rock project. The arrangements span from mellow/minimal to rocking and grandiose. Consistently emotive, unique and sincere. Brilliance. AllOne
Progressive yet punk, aggro yet emotional. One of my favorite bands from Long Island and doing everything they can to live up to their name, raising money for causes and making badass music, AllOne
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I have been listening to variations of this album a long time. I remember I was living in a cardboard dumpster when some young guy was like yo dude it's gonna rain come crash on my couch. He played The Many Faces of Oliver Hart for me. I fell in love, I set my favorite track as Rain because we looped it when the rain came. That was one of the early acts of kindness I received in the nearly 20 years I've been homeless. @NomadRoamsFree