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Circuit Dance (Intro)
01:32
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Eyes closed for the ritual
Light glow for the visual
Iso’d and original
I know I'm formidable
Time flies got grown in it
All parts get shown in it
All heart no stone in it
What’s hard can’t flow in it
I’m no cynic
I know systems and circumstance
They curve the current
I’m workin' to make the circuit dance
I surge when mergin' with persons immersed in service
Determined to show their worth ain't for purchase
I'm still a working man
Takin' laps to get back home
And natural
Take no interest in bad loans
And cast stones
Nothin's lastin' in nature
I feel it tracks with my nature
To trace my past out on paper
And make the path known
I feel the staff of the master
That beats the back of hands
Take my ass kickin's askin'
To read the master plan
I see the masters they're laughin'
With nothin lackin' they have it
My past and habits are active
I’m free as I can stand
And the days have flown
But I’ll make it home
And I’ll make it known
Make it known
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2. |
Big Homie Told Me A Lie
03:48
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Big homie told me
Told me a lie
And it pulled me
Pulled me around
Came to mold me
Pulled me around
Yeah he told me
Told me a lie
Better toughin' up
Thicken up your skin
Why you wanna talk about it
If you're not a bitch
You should let um know
Who's the boss and how a boss
Goes about it
Walk it like ya got it
Between your legs
Like ya got a product
That could make um beg
Take it from the bottle
Straight without a chase
It's a bitter world
Learn to love the taste
Man if you say so
You must be right
I want what you got
In your life
I do what I can
While you do what you like
I do what I can watch you
Do what you like
Big homie told me
Told me a lie
And it pulled me
Pulled me around
Came to mold me
Pulled me around
Yeah he told me
Told me a lie
Big homie in my head
Big homie in my ear
Big homie talk a lot
When I'm solo lookin' in the mirror
What am I if
I am like this
I don’t like it
And the shape of my fate's
Not the way that I'd write it
Far away
Heat on the road
Makes it wave, wave, wave
Ohh big man your statue’s comin down
The future's fluid
Movin' where you can’t pursue it
Provin' what you can’t intuit
You don't know what you have missed, no
Lemme go, don't hold my wrist
I defy an iron grip
Slippin' out I’m growin' quick
Growin' gifts I'd give to you if you’d ask
Ohh I live to mix the two halves
I do express what you repress what you don't get usually gets you mad
Fearsome and fearful your ears glow
Give earfuls no tears roll your stone face
Face it I’m breakin' your mold, hey
Face it I’m makin' my own way
Patiently makin' it whole
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3. |
Softee Boy
04:32
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Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way
In the halls like a lamb to the slaughter
Underneath the surface softer than a tissue in water
Gotta stay cautious like he stays with his father
Who jokes his only child is his favorite daughter
Awkward
Strength, meek and patient
Meets mean and takes it, teachers see him weak make worried faces
It's a cold hard world, he’s in secret places
So deep it’s hard to speak or to meet their gazes
Child in him just keepin' warm
Seems to wanna keep his body locked in its form
Other boys turn wild men as if reborn
Softee Boy keeps showin' up to be ignored
How long till he learns
How to harden up
And hold his own
When holdin' on is hard enough?
Holin' up in his room, boy's smart enough
To tie himself in a dozen knots
Got him stuck
It's a lot just to sit alone in his zone
His only homie gives him more of what he gets at home
Tells him grow him up some stones, dont b**** and moan
What he’s got nobody seems to wanna get to know
Is it nothin'
If it’s not understandable to some other animal?
Is it nothin'
If it can't find a form and a space to be tangible?
Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way
I'm gunna learn to love the way I am
The way I am
I wish you’d love me the way I am
The way I am
You don't have to understand
The way I am
Could just love me
Love me, love me
Signed the note
Moved out in the thick of summer
Saved enough for just a month, it's got him covered
Got a friend, they got in close, they're almost lovers
Gives him life to go his way and start another
He’ll be runnin' for his livin' in a job or two
It's not freedom, but it's somethin that he got to choose
Got a different set a problems now, they oughta do
He’ll meet the world as he is, like it's somethin new
Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way
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4. |
Embodied
03:14
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Embodied
Made for love
Made for love
Embodied
Stayin' stuck, stayin' stuck
I’m in mine
A kid in clothes
Who moans and groans
That they dont fit
You in yours as two in one
A Gemini, you like to split
Never turned off on a flaw
Got in and got it raw
Old skin all fallin' off
New skin, now call it off
Miss the smell in my bed
Miss the thought in my head
What's the thought in your head?
Our food in your teeth
You’d smile when I speak
It’s quiet when I eat now
Embodied
Made for love
Made for love
Embodied
Stayin' stuck, stayin' stuck
I want fire
Some of these nights
But I'm too tired to go and get mine
To go and get mine
Back in high school
I was a dog
Always chasin' what I liked
Back in high school
I couldn't wait for love
Couldn't take no advice
Back in high school
I was a dog
Always movin' uptight
Back in high school
Tryna use my body
Couldn't soothe my body
Most nights
Now that I'm grown
Livin' alone
I guess I'm in peace
Livin' alone
With a neighbor who's screamin'
Whenever she gets her release
Try not to let it in
Start typin' you messages
Check um and edit um
Left um as never sent
Bury the evidence
Sittin' late at home
Feelin' less than flesh and bones
Sittin' late at home
Private mode on my phone
Sittin' late at home
I scroll for a sedative
It's cold in my residence
I'm calm as ever
Embodied
Made for love
Made for love
Embodied
Stayin' stuck, stayin' stuck
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5. |
All New (Energy)
03:46
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Energy ohh
And it’s all neeww
Set me free and I’ll fly
Finally I’m lit
All light
I give my life
All my love
All my stuff
Is not too much
I'm not too stuck
To go my way like what
All turned up
It's off the cuff
Think all of us got holes where we can't meet our two halves, it's too bad
Put a yin and yang on my new bag, my shoes match
Won't add what I lack to what I do have
It's new math
I go with it
I know, I know I got one thing
It's flow and flux
Man, I don't live with a halo
Been in touch though
Since mom homemade my playdough
I get a rush then I go rush to show all my friends
That they’re all my friends just so that they know
Give um my thoughts intense they say, "Bro if you say so"
We get a laugh then I'm back to my cave to lay low
Live in the lab till I got tracks to show all my friends to show all their friends
It's new cycles
Not spinnin' out
Livin' in cyclones
I begin again
Flip it like vinyl
I been around, I been listenin'
Sounds been hittin' different
My town’s small but interestin'
And I know
I’m a citizen, I’m slippin' into my role
It's changin' me, I’m changin' it as I go
Still wild things are whisperin'
Wishin' that it was different
Bigger or more significant
It’s mine though
Mine
If it's comin' to me
I let it come and give it time like it’s somethin' I need
It’d been a season since the sun had come
I wanted the heat
I know the guru is no one, he's wantin' nothin'
There’s nothing that he can't summon
I'm someone
Busy wantin' and runnin' the guru's waitin'
I've run through a hundred phases with hunger in humble places
Been humbled a hundred ways and been given initiations
Been given each inhalation, I take it for inspiration like
Uh
It’s not for nothin'
My body knows and its buzzin'
When Kali goes to her husband
I call in and sit and listen
I listen and get permission
I get it to lift restrictions
Remix it I’m in revision with
Energy, ohh
And it’s all new
Set me free, and I’ll fly
Finally I’m lit
All light
I give my life
All my love
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Jim Swim Iowa City, Iowa
Artist/producer Jim Swim crafts wavy and warm music that snaps and has substance. Swim's songs unwind like good conversation, moving from the everyday to the abstract, the personal to the universal, with honest ease. His infectious beats, unique flow, and lyrical insight reward repeated listens and have won him a loyal following that continues to grow. ... more
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