Had to return to my trip-hop roots. As requested by many many people, a vocal remix about expressing myself to some of my favorite Nujabes’ songs:
1. Beyond
2. Reflection Eternal
3. Aruarian Dance
4. Winter Lane Remix
5. Mystline
so enjoy the DJ mix I made, and please comment and share!
Full lyrics:
– I never really told it like it ever was
Because they’re always saying, tell me what you’re thinking of
– I’m not an open book made in 1928
For everyone to read religiously everyday
– My imagination likes to run wild
Like a stray dog, you can hear it when I play songs
In this style
– I am beyond what you read
A house with no windows or doors for a key
There’s more than what you see
At the top of canopies
– Don’t approach me with an axe for the trees
I am actually just another human being
Don’t assume I can show you a short history
More importantly, understand my belief
Sometimes I even think that how I speak is stupidly
So I tend to hesitate
When I open my mouth
Unless there’s a beat playing in the background
what I’m saying is
but what I’m thinking is
– and so I reflect on the messages
That I write down and make sure it’s what I meant to say
Everyday – words and pictures collide
Inside my mind all the time when I rhyme
– I just want to show you
– a movie in the cinema
not that the projectionist feels like a prisoner
So be a listener
– but always keep your distance
you might find things that are none of your business
– I don’t write in a fucking diary
Cause I started writing songs to express what’s inside of me
-Still keeping what’s close to me closer
so that I don’t lose what I show for exposure
Would you be mad if I saw you naked
in a picture, with your head cropped out
and for lack of representation
– that’s what I thought
nothing’s more eternal than what your mind’s got
what I’m saying is
but what I’m thinking is
so
now the words and meanings are in synchronized dance
and what you heard and seeing is between the lines, can I
be understandable without selling out?
Can I be unique without being too indie now
Pick a route
–
or you can call it route
either way, what you think of what I say isn’t true
to the absolute sense
unless, I want to tell it
Here come inside
Let’s have a little chat
By the fire
But I can’t explain everything
I want you think for yourself for a change of scene
– I don’t want to hear, “Oh my God, wait for me.”
If you can’t race me in this field, I’ll wait patiently
And slow down my flow and use smaller words
For you to take a glimpse into a another world
– now tell me what you heard
there’s a reason why you can press repeat if you prefer
Pardon me. For literal alliteration
Taking my words to a different dimension
That you can’t see when you look in the sky
Or feel in the wind when a breeze goes by
Or when I see those eyes staring into my soul
I can barely hold on when you reach into the hole
so
Take these words but never in your heart
Unless there’s a part of you that empathized beyond
What you feel is mesmerizing when you put it in a song
So listen up close while the show goes on
what I’m saying is
but what I’m thinking is
so now you see that where I go isn’t very warm
it’s always winter time in my mind with a storm
that will never arrive
I could sing to you lies, but you
Get enough of that in a thing called life
-I don’t want to seem
So unreal
But I don’t want to give away
Everything I feel
I’m opening the door
With a chain still on
While you’re waiting outside
Cause the rain isn’t gone
I don’t like strangers that I’ve known my whole life
Who have never stepped foot to where I reside
–
And I want sunlight but I
Close the curtains
Cause I’m scared you won’t like
What I have to say
So that I can stay sane.
I can hear you through the walls
When you say my name.
Don’t make me change
Or take the blame
Just let me expressly say I’m sorry
– that I couldn’t let you in
but maybe if you spend
some time as a friend
and you won’t roll your eyes
at what I recite
from my book of deep thoughts
It’s not what you think
– I don’t tell anybody what I want to speak
I keep it all in when the dam won’t leak
When the fires in your eyes show desire when you blink
And you want to know what’s going on up there?
It’s snowy outside, but it’s cold in here.
Let’s go for ride, or toast with a cheers
And a clink. Let’s show no fear
Anything else but telling how I feel.
what I’m saying is
but what I’m thinking is
I know it never made sense
And now you got to leave when you say it’s for the best
As I watch you leave the front porch
Doing double takes and if I open the door
But the sun’s going down
And now there’s no time to even tell you my account
On life
So let me watch you walk away
Poke my eyes out of a small window frame
I know you’re truly disappointed
But sometimes we got to accept what we forfeit
Maybe I’ll open up one day
One day means it’ll never come my way
And then I see you disappear
Wondering what the hell I’m gonna do in here
I hear the beat start tapping
Pulled out a pen and wrote what just happened.
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