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In Hard Times Keep It Funky

by Chris Bass and dL

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So Heavy 02:19
Hello-You probably love it when I’m shallow bury my intelligence like a rumour with my Gallows humour - ruin my beautiful blue mood like a boomerang pearly white smile on my dial-you rang? Here I am flashing fangs like a crocodile my heart beta-blocking I been rockin round the clock awhile Mr bloodshot blue eyes Rank Sinatra Parched my mouth more desert than Etran Finatawa Walk tall with shortfalls make with the small-talk My silver-tongue-ware I wanna stab ‘em with a small fork All talk no brain or grain of substance how to win friends and influence people be a dumb dunce I hunts once for stunners then get munted become a blunt instrument instantly bummed out I’m not into it When did the price of niceties become such a heavy levy Why I got to be so heavy Why? why? why? why? Why’s he got to be so heavy? Why? why? why? why? Why’s it got to be so heavy? Heavy like a stone heart - Heavy like the weather Heavy like the metal with unsettling black leather Heavy like the testes of a celebrated celibate Heavy like the belly of an overdeveloped elephant Heavy like a weapon -Heavy like a lead Zeppelin Heavy like a seven day bender on pseudoephedrine Heavy like a dead weight/ a blind date / race hate Heavy like evolution the weight of the great apes Heavy like a promise heavy like a guilty conscience Heavy like the bevy that’ll knock you unconscious Heavy like the burden of the everyday slaves Heavy like the scarred hard marble harbouring our graves Heavy like Decades as we blaze across the ages like my pen strokes floatin’ over A4 pages like the need for the creed By All Means Necessary Thats why we organise and bring it back back so heavy
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All outa water South of the Border No reception on my celly the phone-box is out of order Back into the desert on my skin and bones Nag Vultures waiting to assault the both of us - go tag Signs says GO BACK rockin’ Skull n Crossbones Croonin' my lost poems, strumming with the Boss-tone If we don't make it across the next Valley we're lost But aside from my Hoss don't give a toss though Sun blinds us, Death stalks behind us The Heat-Bleached Roadkill ready to remind us Mortality moves through our new reality exposed out in the open, a true shooting gallery Escaped the Gallows for an arrow with my name on it Not even a shallow grave for my remains Fallin' down in the night to feed the Voracious Desert Won't write my Last Rites never see me Hesi- Tate navigate through the resident snakes give 'em all the Heavy Weather head severed with a stake through their serpentine bodies frying hot on the campfire Wildfire in my eyes like the Kerosene lamp-wire Wind through the Tundra the distant thunder protected by my body-bag swag that I'm under Wake up with a Lone Wolf keeping my feet warm Him and Me, Two lost Souls under a Freak Storm Night Sky a Thousand Eyes blinded by the cloud cover The Earth Ridge surrounds us like a Proud Mother Close my eyes let my dreams take me down under Land of the Spirits I'm distilling some profound wonder cut and run Canine Companion right there To guide my travels Guard me from the Nightmares The same way I'll protect him in the Waking Hours Rhythm of the Rain showers awakening my latent powers See for miles and miles through the Deep Night Sparks fly under our feet and still we keep tight Earth speaks directions - under its protection Waking memories of Dreams of Resurrection When I awake my companions gone like the Storm and the Sinister Threat, I travel on Now the Only Eyes I feel upon me are protective Move on the Objective with True perspective A new Revival not just Survival Opening my mind just to cop a third-eyefull Circling the Sky Birds-Eye to spot Danger Guardian Angel brings it home on the Ranger Now do you get it? Prey becomes Predator For sure, the Jaws of Death are mixing metaphors and I'm better off heeding the Call of the Wild Because I'm nothing more than Nature's Child

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Cat#:DOGBOX014

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released July 18, 2018

Chris Bass: Rhymes, Instruments
dL: Beats, Turntables

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Chris Bass @ dOgbOx studios

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Chris Bass Adelaide, Australia

Performing literally 100s of gigs both in Adelaide & interstate from the early 1990s and appearing in over 30 releases as musician, lyricist or producer, Chris Bass should need no introduction.
First hip-hop crew 9th Circle 1992.
Bands: Capital F, Bliss, Chimera#9, Crisp, Loaded Zilla and more.
2003 - Defenders -DJ Snair & Flak released "Self Defence" in 2004. Now solo MC w. collaborators.
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