Imma Be [Gil Scott-Heron]

Imma Be [Gil Scott-Heron] (Black Eyed Peas 2010) 11/30

Crossed the globe and seven seas

Sat my ass down in the crossroads and stared the devil in the eye

Livin’ life, feelin’ free, that’s how it’s supposed to be

He asked me where I’ve been where I aim

I told him everywhere and again

Crossed the globe and seven seas

I walked in the pathways of kings devil

You cannot claim this body devil

Livin’ free, feelin’ free, that’s how it’s supposed to be

He said he didn’t believe in me

And I said I didn’t believe in him

Crossed the globe and seven seas

I’ve seen too much to believe in anything

Too little to not understand that this body is going to cycle around

Livin’ life, feelin’ free, that’s how it’s supposed to be

Everything becomes more itself devil

Even you, you either renew or end

Crossed the globe and seven seas

Livin’ life, feelin’ free, that’s how it’s supposed to be

Right Round [Minos]

Right Round [Minos] (Flo Rida ft. Kesha 2009) 11/29

I am out of control

Raging down hallways – reaching for anything

We build castles made of sand

My wife – my deformed child in his prison

Take all the sacrificial youths I send down their paths

I am out of control

If I said I was sorry – returned everything I have taken

Unbuild the tomb of this house

We build castles made of sand

I spin my wheels – turn – turn – turn – find nothing

Worth touch – the tide comes in and takes

I am out of control

Pouring tankards of alcohol across the asses of my lands

My wife – she is not idle in this – not untouched

We build castles made of sand

But I –

Here is my arm – split it along the meridian – see the wool

pour forth like the ocean along a shore

I am out of control

We build castles made of sand

Love In This Club

Love In This Club (Usher ft. Young Jeezy 2008) 11/28 

On the couch on the table

the air is thick it might be daylight

on the bar on the floor

Even the walls are sweating

the air is moving is alive

on the couch on the table

Life is inventing itself in time

with whatever this song is

on the bar on the floor

The people become bodies

become silhouettes become silent

on the couch on the table

Noise is background white space

everything is erasing itself

on the bar on the floor

There are eyes only staring out

from your darkness and from mine

on the couch on the table

on the bar on the floor

This Is Why I'm Hot

This Is Why I'm Hot (MIMS 2007) 11/27

They ask me how I do it

Where my mind comes from

I got that fire

In my belly I see the ocean : the sun is setting : everything is going

from liquid to solid : the caps are shifting emerald : foam everywhere

They ask me how I do it

I pull that into me : take the caps of the sea and breathe it

Here is the salt in my veins staining my heart : here a fish-bone knife

I got that fire : split my chest

Let is pump on the table a moment : the mirrors will reflect only blank

light and empty rooms : the curtains are limp broken skin

They ask me how I do it : I take hostages of myself

Roam the sand bar and count the threshing grasses : how many were

green and how many were bleached white ?

I got that fire

And it consumes me more then it could you : ocean thick

breaking : particles float satellites about the earth of my brain

They ask me how I do it

I got that fire

You're Beautiful

You're Beautiful (James Blunt 2006) 11/26

My life is brilliant,

amazing, incandescent

‘cause I’ve got a plan

I have a backpack full of food

A tent, canned food, books, but the first reason

my life is brilliant

is that I have bombs,

lots of them – The second reason: a shotgun

I’ve got a plan

From this water tower

I can pick you off one-by-one and

my life will be brilliant

See, I’m not going lightly – I have chains and cuffs

This isn’t because I read some book

I’ve got a plan

I want to take you down – I want zombie pets

I’m starting with the neighbors

My life is Brilliant

‘cause I’ve got a plan

Candy Shop

Candy Shop (50 Cent ft. Olivia 2005) 11/25

We are going to sip until every bubble in every bottle is gone

It’s late and neither of us will leave this room

I'm a seasoned vet when it comes to this shit

See this steady hand that doesn’t tremble with the glass

The gaze in my eye that is the steady gaze of determination

I’m a seasoned vet when it comes to this shit

Have more you are floating

I’m floating

We are going to sip until every bubble in every bottle is gone

I can hardly think when I’m sober

We are going to sip every bubble in every bottle

Gone

The CD is skipping

I’m a seasoned vet when it comes to this shit

Hit it on the side by the blinking light

Every bubble is gone

Sip

Well seasoned

Shit

Yeah!

Yeah! (Usher ft. Lil Jon & Ludacris 2004) 11/24

She’s saying come get me, come get me

and the phone goes silent. I’m standing in the bar, the music is loud and

next thing I knew she was all up on me screaming

She was outside trying to get me to leave the bar, the music,

it’s some Usher song and the place is dark, sweaty. I’m stuck to the stool

She’s saying come get me, come get me

as she leaves the bar, her mascara running her eyes raccooned

I follow and the night is close, it’s still 80

next thing I knew she was all up on me screaming

about the other day, the other night, I’ve done wrong, something

about a friend of hers and how I tease her too much in front of everyone

She’s saying come get me, come get me

She wants me to save her, or I want her to want that

or I want her to save me, she is all fear and fists

next thing I knew she was all up on me screaming

hitting. Nails into skin. I’m bleeding and she is running

away throwing her purse into the air, leaving her shoes.

She’s all come get me, come get me…