Name: Traveler (Newsongstress)
Duration: P00H04M31S
Description: Notes: This is one of those songs that are made when you're 'not making songs.' It just happened, and the lyrics were written the same day, as it was being mixed. During a hard time with a partner. A little gut-checkin and BS-wreckin simpleton hip-hop - a hopeful, boastful celebration of his banal royalty.

Traveler (Newsongstress)

from Here We Go Again by simpleton

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Notes: This is one of those songs that are made when you're 'not making songs.' It just happened, and the lyrics were written the same day, as it was being mixed. During a hard time with a partner. A little gut-checkin and BS-wreckin simpleton hip-hop - a hopeful, boastful celebration of his banal royalty.

lyrics

Yer sound feeling downbeat
ring me on your telephone
you claim you come in millions of colors
I only see half-tone

I put yer mic to ear
hear three albums this year
I'd give you a life subscription
if you'd only come nearer to the source
and make a show of force
when the light's just right
you I take a picture of course
So come on oblique
from the top of the peak
where the air between you and me
is about to leak
out your pores and dykes
out your mouth for your rights
out your body tonight
across the spread of delights
I'm fending off forgotten
spending all of my cotton
I only got a twenty
but I'm thrift-store shoppin
A moth to light
I told you I would fight
until the morning for us
through the cold dark night
And the train still rolls
and the bells do toll
you can't escape your death
when your on his roll

so sound the alarm some sap is on a mission
getting all incensed when the slurs come a-slipping
the sick fiction of the diction that the bigot is addicted with
hand grenade in the mouth
I travel this city from North to South
I travel this city from North to South

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from Here We Go Again, released November 1, 2009
Instruments: drums performed on usb keyboard and recorded with garageband by simpleton. vocal recorded using built-in mic on one track.

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