https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/she-said-thisisthepart-part-25-of-31 “Sheeee saaaaaiiiiddd . . It’ll be goooood if you stay with meeeee toniiiiiight So Iiiiiiii granted her wish . . ” And she said . . goodbye. Because this song is about a breakup, I thought it was fitting to sample a group who had broken up. So I went to one of my [...] ...
https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/interlude-6-the-breaking-thisisthepart-part-24-of-31 #ThisIsThePart where silences say more than words. Where two ships pass each other in the night, blasting cannonballs at each other for spite. Where pirates of passion, once “hooked” on each other, now walk the plank of purgatory. Too attached to stray. Too detached to stay. Whose line is it, anyway? (Samples “Great Divide” [...] ...
https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/talking-all-that-jazz-toasted-oats-thisisthepart-part-23-of-31 The woman who inspired much of #ThisIsThePart put me on to “Guilt Junkie” by Vinia Mojica by way of mixtape when we first started dating. I couldn’t have known then that I would end up feeling like the song by the time we were finished. And so this song is dedicated to the song [...] ...
https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/raw-sugar-thisisthepart-part-22-of-31 #ThisIsThePart, Part 22 of 31: Raw Sugar “I don’t want to say it / The news is not so good / We’ll never get away / And even if we could / We’d just play the tambourine / Around an open flame / Oversleep and burn / To be back in the game . [...] ...
Last night I dreamt that I was Paul Giamatti’s campaign manager and he was running against Trump for President. Paul Giamatti pulled out at the last minute with no explanation and by some law if a candidate pulled out before choosing a running mate and if nobody else wanted the spot then the campaign manager [...] ...
“I see the sky in your eyes, but your tears start clouding it / I made a map of your mind, but you’re always rerouting it / You’re good money to me, but you call yourself counterfeit / Can’t confide in me, because you don’t have the confidence . . ” Said sentiments sound much [...] ...
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“My hungry heart holds our secret getaways / like the last snowflake of a winter day . . ” It is a Wednesday night. And I have a . . “girlfriend”. So why am I downstairs by the back bar of Eighteenth Street Lounge, seduced by sweat sheen and Shabba Ranks, engaging in synchronized waist-winding [...] ...
“(K)night falls on her; Lancelot to Guinivere / Light falls on her; glinting sphere to hemisphere / Water from her mind replenish tears endless years / We been traveling in pairs; Noah’s Ark, Senate hearings . . ” This poem was born as a series of texts which I sent to my ex-miss* one Halloween [...] ...
“I never knew a love, love, a love, a love like this . . ” In the year 2000, fellow Piscean Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. aka Common aka The Artist Formerly Known As Sense released the album Like Water For Chocolate, which would go on to be considered by many fans as one of his [...] ...