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I guess with my birthday being tomorrow, I’m moving out of my funk.

Hey look me over, lend me an ear,
Fresh out of clover, morgaged up to here,
Don’t pass the plate folks,
Don’t pass the cup,
I figure whenever you’re down and out,
The only way is up..
And I’ll be up like a rose bud,
High on the vine,
Don’t thumb your nose folks,
Take a tip from mine,
I’m a little bit short of the elbow room,
But let me get me some,
And look out world, here I come…
Nobody in the world,
Was ever without a prayer,
How can you win the world,
If nobody knows you’re there,
Kid when you need the crowd,
The tickets are hard to sell,
Still you can win the crowd,
If you can get up and yo yo..
Hey look me over, lend me an ear,
Fresh out of clover, morgaged up to here,
Don’t pass the plate folks,
Don’t pass the cup,
I figure whenever you’re down and out,
The only way is up..
Up like a rose bud,
High on the vine,
Don’t thumb your nose folks,
Take a tip from mine,
I’m a little bit short of the elbow room,
But let me get me some,
And look out world,
Hear me shout world,
Hey look out world,
Here I come!

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I’ve been singing this song all day long. I first sang it in 4th grade in choir and it’s uplifting lyrics have always manage to make me think, “I can get through this!”.

The song is called The People and I lerve eet!

Great video for a great song.

Philadelphia poetess-turned-songstress, Jill Scott has a new record coming out next month. Naturally, she’s doing all the press junkets for it and one of the most interesting interviews came from Essence magazine. The interview by Terri McMillian covers Ms. Scott’s divorce, love, body and of course, her new album. You can also check photos of the gorgeous woman on the site.

Here’s the video for Scott’s single from the record, Hate on Me:

Jill Scott is also the featured artist this week on Vh1’s SoulStage.

Went out for a smoke. The music at the church is still going. Heard a speed/thrash metal band singing an old rap song. In Spanish.

While I’m posting environmental lyrics, let’s hit up this one:

(listen)
New World Water from Black on Both Sides by Mos Def

There’s nothing more refreshing (that cool refreshing drink)
Than a cool, crisp, clean glass of water
On a warm summer’s day (That cool refreshing drink)
Try it with your friends

New World Water make the tide rise high
Come inland and make your house go “Bye” (My house!)
Fools done upset the Old Man River
Made him carry slave ships and fed him dead nigga
Now his belly full and he about to flood somethin
So I’ma throw a rope that ain’t tied to nothin
Tell your crew use the H2 in wise amounts since
it’s the New World Water; and every drop counts
You can laugh and take it as a joke if you wanna
But it don’t rain for four weeks some summers
And it’s about to get real wild in the half
You be buying Evian just to take a fuckin bath
Heads is acting wild, sippin poor, puffin dank
Competin with the next man for higher playin rank
See I ain’t got time try to be Big Hank,
Fuck a bank; I need a twenty-year water tank
Cause while these knuckleheads is out here sweatin they goods
The sun is sitting in the treetops burnin the woods
And as the flames from the blaze get higher and higher
They say, “Don’t drink the water! We need it for the fire!”
New York is drinkin it (New World Water)
Now all of California is drinkin it (New World Water)
Way up north and down south is drinkin it (New World Water)
Used to have minerals and zinc in it (New World Water)
Now they say it got lead and stink in it (New World Water)
Fluorocarbons and monoxide
Push the water table lopside
Used to be free now it cost you a fee
Cause oil tankers spill they load as they roam cross the sea
Man, you gotta cook with it, bathe and clean with it (That’s right)
When it’s hot, summertime you fiend for it (Let em know)
You gotta put it in the iron you steamin with (That’s right)
It’s what they dress wounds and treat diseases with (Shout it out)
The rich and poor, black and white got need for it (That’s right)
And everybody in the world can agree with this (Let em know)
Consumption promotes health and easiness (That’s right)
Go too long without it on this earth and you leavin it (Shout it out)
Americans wastin it on some leisure shit (Say word?)
And other nations be desperately seekin it (Let em know)
Bacteria washing up on they beaches (Say word?)
Don’t drink the water, son they can’t wash they feet with it (Let em know)
Young babies in perpetual neediness (Say word?)
Epidemics hopppin up off the petri dish (Let em know)
Control centers try to play it all secretive (Say word?)
To avoid public panic and freakiness (Let em know)
There are places where TB is common as TV
Cause foreign-based companies go and get greedy
The type of cats who pollute the whole shore line
Have it purified, sell it for a dollar twenty-five
Now the world is drinkin it
Your moms, wife, and baby girl is drinkin it
Up north and down south is drinkin it
You should just have to go to your sink for it
The cash registers is goin “cha-chink!” for it
Fluorocarbons and monoxide
Got the fish lookin cockeyed
Used to be free now it cost you a fee
Cause it’s all about gettin that cash (Money)

Said it’s all about gettin that cash (Money) (x9)
Johny cash (Money)
Roseland cash (Money)
Give me cash (Money)
Cold cash (Money)
(Repeat to fade)

Cash rules everything around me,
Move!

I used to play this song everyday on my radio show. It’s pretty sad to think we had 15 years to heed the words in this song and not a damn thing has been done.

(listen)
I Had A Dream I Was Falling Through A Hole In The Ozone Layer (LP Version) from Infinity Within by Deee-Lite

Dreams
Oh precious land
You’re in the wrong hands
Stretched every way like a rubber band
I’m calling out to all Earth fans
Come on, give a damn,
and take a stand

I had a dream, I had a dream
I was falling through a hole in the ozone layer

When you slurp your slurpie in a dixie cup
Always pick every piece of litter up
Recycle cans, paper and plastic
Call your politicians, ask for it
’cause years after years after years after you’re gone
This old world has to keep on

I had a, I had a, I had a dream
I’m falling through a hole in the ozone layer

Keep the hope spinning
Keep the hope spinning the globe
We breathe the future and yet we’re choking
We breathe the future and we start to chike
I see a factory blowing purple smoke

Keep the hope spinning
Keep the hope spinning the globe
Mother Earth’s hope is spinning
She keeps the hope spinning the globe

The animals are endangered
Mother nature is a stranger
How do we measure nuclear waste?
Electric cars and solar TV
Organic food - the things that we need
And if you still don’t understand
The information is at your hands
So make demands
Demands in this world you would like to see
Convenience is the enemy

Ooohh ooohh ooohh
Oh precious land
You’re in the wrong hands
Stretched every way like a rubber band
I’m calling out to all Earth fans
Come on, give damn
and take a stand

Keep the hope spinning
Keep the hope spinning the globe
Mother Earth’s hope is spinning
She keeps the hope spinning the globe

I heard this on Napster while I was in Chicago. Appropriate. Listening to Kanye West’s production of Common’s album in their hometown.

You need to check it out. Screw that. You need to buy this.

There’s a reason this album hit #1. Damn.

Also be on the look out for Jill Scott’s new album in September. When the link starts working, I’ll hook you up.