Dark side of the tune part 2

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Sometimes you read something, or you hear something, which rings completely true to you. Something jumps out, a few sentences in an article, a passage in a novel, a few consecutive rants in some stand up comedy, a series of images in a film. It's rare, but occasionally I find myself floating in someone else’s stream of creativity and just totally surrendering control.

My friend Matthew played me this song a few months ago, and we jumped around his living room, gun fingers stabbing the ceiling, pulling back the needle on his portable turntable again and again. At the time I thought it was another excellent rant against the system, with a whole bunch of truisms and a decent rhythm under it. I suppose that is basically what it is.

But since then I have played it more and more regularly. The haunting monotony of the beat and the hammering truths have started to hypnotise me. It’s become a war march into oblivion. Standing on the edge, conscious, alert and watching the world crumble.

I think it's an amazing song - full of wisdom and anger.

MP3: Busy Signal - These are the days

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These are the fucking days
Yu affi hustle in the street like a fuckin slave
Then the boss a work the least get the fuckin raise
Yu nuh c say di leaders fi step up the pace

Listen to these fuckin facts
Who nuh hav a Smith n Wesson hav a fucking Glock
Coppa whistle somebody missin when you here it stop
Anotha madda bawl while she suffer the lost

Well up to these fucking streets
Chalk line white sheet regular we see it
Less fortunate get treated like sum refugees
But dont get fed up keep ya head up stay on yu feet

Right now we are at a fucking stage
This day and age is like we locked up inna fucking cage
A me a tell yu say the system need fi rearrange

Busy Signal - These Are The Days (2008)

Posted by BenjaminDubstar | Friday 14 November 2008