Two Raps

[BlackBillBlake]

Radio.



Listening to the radio station
Might feel a little bit of alienation
Kill off another Indian nation
Read the contra-indication
Guess my mind is on vacation
With the rat pack
In Iraq
Hey no smack
On a desert track
With the back pack -
They explode and go
Heavenly
Virgins to know
In a paradisio
But unless you believe
Like they do back home
It’s a no go zone
They’ll sell you the book
Get mama a clone
To pay for the cost of the care home
While back in the dome
I have a dream
I tell you my friends my eyes have seen
So don’t scream
Don’t just blank the screen
Listen
While these diamonds glisten
And glitter
Don’t fritter
Don’t fret
Don’t get no attack of the jitters
Not yet
On my hat it said
Hot tuna
I was feeling just like Arjuna
A private view
For just we two
A universal glue
And the universe
Was moving slow
On the radio
Now it’s playing hey Joe
With information
You don’t want to know -

I’m so brash
So flash
With my cash
And my stash
I’m not fazed
Not dazed
Nearly crazed
My eyes are glazed
And half closed
But I’m not exposed
I’m aware
Like Huxley’s chair
I aint no square -
Aware
Currents in the air
Smoke that swirls
Dancing girls -
Our people got us well briefed
We know about your belief
We know your commander in chief
So be brief
Don’t waste time
No huff and puff
About crime
Just keep my mind
Fluid - free
And fixed on the kicks
Not the tricks but
The flicks
Like films I saw
In the days before
Days of yore
Days of cold war
People I’d see
I’d want to be
Where I used to go
In a picture show
A misty movie afterglow
Directing the flow
In the afternoon
You really got to go so soon?

You said it’s a mess
I said yes
It’s a case of distress
Or a power we’ve yet to harness
Like the fabric
Of dreams
Or that velvet dress
With the stars
Embossed
Delicate silver cross
You wore
On its chain
As we walked in the rain
I tried to explain
The song the radio banned
The love we never planned
Spaces we never scanned
Like phantoms at the bus stand
And your eyes like the morning blue
It swirls in my mind
Like she’s so fine
Replays all the time
A fair time as times go
You said maybe
I don’t have to go
So neat
Night comes to the street
Goddess of beauty to greet
And meet
A fair time
As times go
You said
Maybe I don’t have to go
As I tuned in the radio
I love you so
They played that song
On the
Radio
We love you so
So neat
Discreet
With the beat
Got to master the heat
Hip aesthete
Goddess of beauty here to greet and meet.

[BlackBillBlake]

I’m the man they call the dream maker
I can take you for a ride
On the tide
As you slide
Inside
On the mystic side
To another shore
Got a lot of dreams in store
Just be kind
Take some time
To come alive inside
You can
Ride on the tide
When you feel it inside
Just look
Nothing crook
Take a leaf out of my book
It’s not bad
No don’t get mad
Green as I ever seen
She’s not mean
she’s a dream
a queen
a stream
an underground scene
where no one ever been
or returned to tell the story
Hunky Dory
I wanted to tell a brand new story
distant
Come inside
This cosmic mind
Yeah I’m in a deep fix
Like jerry
and Jimi Hendrix
Aint in no hurry son
Not like jim morrison
Lin Chi and the way of Zen
Gary Numan
Kraftwerk
And Lennon
I’m not wasting my time
Heard a voice divine
Told me to shine
And be myself
Unique
With a leak
In the brain
In the membrane
But not much pain
I can piss on their strain
I can show a new space
Take you to that place
A new place
Another face
We can disappear
Without a trace
A1
First class
Old boy
Yes life
Is a gas
President gas
Up for president
Another fish head
Funky residents
Roly poly
There we go
Roly poly
Everything that lives
Is holy
Need for you to know
And see
And be
It’s never too late
To appropriate…
Don’t be inchoate
Please appreciate
Don’t wait
Till a later date
Get it straight
Right here
I didn’t say
Drink beer
but be ye of good cheer
cause the time is here
got a deadweight pope
just smoke some more dope
give them enough rope
said the clash
they was being crass
but real
cause they knew the deal
I was just dancing though
With my eyes on another
Reality
Another world
Another girl
With her eyes on
The world
And a bank account
And a house with iron doors
And a man without a flaw
It’s a dream and nothing more
Like stranger on the shore
Can’t be done
It’s all gone
That time
Now it’s time to rewind
Like sine and cosine
Renew the formula
Yeah now she’s coming for ya...........