Writing
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Prevail
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Tweet About Prevail A friend of mines listened to the beat and suggested I attempt an uplifting song. Something to motivate people with a message of hope…and this is what I came up with. Unfortunately, the version you hear is not a perfect representation of the vision I had for this song. Also, it should [...]
Which Path
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Tweet About “Which Path” Like almost all of DaEvolution Mixtape, “Which Path” is composed of some very old lyrics. I rewrote a bit of it for uniformity after recording the original and not liking how it meandered. I changed the name as well. Originally it was called “Word Life” (I didn’t want it confused with [...]
Another Day
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Tweet The games we play, the things we say The way we block the other’s way The strange replay, repeat each day And end each night with silence The gray between us grows and grows But never will it go away My black, your white, our mix of prose Our mentals show the violence Cause [...]
Lost and Gone
TweetI’m losing, lost the trust in you I’m going, gone, what’s left to do I’m holding on to the lies you tell Our hearts move on their blood-stained trails I’m losing, lost the trust in you I’m going, gone, what’s left to do I’m holding on to the lies you tell Our hearts move on [...]
Abortion, Why is it Such a Big Deal? Pro-choice, Pro-life, but What About Pro-Freedom?
TweetUpdate 05/29/2010 – Here is a blog post on mincing the term “pro-life” – it’s written by Joshua Holland and touches on one of the subjects that I write about here. I link to it here because he puts it much better than I can :P Abortion, Why is it Such a Big Deal? Abortion. [...]
Orange, The Unrhymable Word
TweetThe color, the fruit …the color of the fruit The word, orange It used to be called yellowred One word not two Things change Her favorite color was orange Can you guess her favorite fruit? She mastered the fine art Of peeling the skin In one whole piece Slowly she would push Her slender fingers [...]
The Other Us
TweetThe reason why we act this way is not the reason that you say The tempting ruse the long delays the make up sex the cold embrace The kiss that lies the lies to face the face to face the small mistakes We take and take we give no breaks we claim we hate but [...]
On Thought and Nothingness
TweetOn Thoughts and Nothingness or, It is What it is It is What it Is Life is full of contradiction and inconsistency. But life is just life; it’s the human mind and the collective conscious that adds so much complexity to something that is so simple. Consider this: We live and we die. That’s it. [...]
Practice Words
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Tweet Update 04/20/10 – Big B created a remix of Practice Words and included it as track #7 on his new beat mixtape called This is It. The track can be found here and can be downloaded for free. Also added it to my reverbnation widget below:) About Practice Words If somebody were to ask [...]
These Words Are Free
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Tweet Update 05/31/2010 – I finally got around to doing some audio for this, maybe it’ll help you feel the words even more :) I used a free beat from Mr. Smiff called “Down N Out” which can be downloaded along with all of his other original beats, absolutely free, from here ;) These words [...]
What is Freedom and Why Don’t We Have it?
TweetThe Problem With the Idea of Freedom in the U.S. The problem with freedom – the idea of freedom – is that no one wants it. That is to say, no one wants to put in the work necessary to achieve it. The sort of concerted effort needed may be currently beyond our reach. We [...]
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