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lyrics

SOME MORE AIR
CHORUS
(a lot of oohs)

Light a stogue
Even though I shouldn’t smoke it
And watch the cars pass by
And the boats
And the couples
And the birds
And the dogs
And the trains
And I’m still havin trouble
With the words
But it’s ok
Fill the rest of the page
With a sketch of a brown-eyed swan, Then crumple that page and throw it
In the Pond, cause
That’s where the swan belongs
Used to move words
Just to perfume the ambiance,
Then steadily
The need to speak
Got replaced by the need
To breathe deep
Beneath the beat
Started seein certain peaks
I didn’t need to reach
Cause New York made me spit
Just for fear of being spat on
Nowadays I do it for the pep
That it puts in my step
Like I got my new hat on
And I hum it to myself
When I wear my favorite jacket Like…

CHORUS

And it doesn’t get easier
Every day ups the risk of the
Freezer burn
As surely as the leaves’ll turn
And the seas’ll churn
Even if you cease to learn
That’s how it be some terms
You and your best friend
On decent terms
And he walks away
When he ought to stay
And simple words put together
Seem so hard to say
Like… I’m sorry… I’m sorry

And the air’s getting crisper
The Mistral comes and shakes the trees
And you stand underneath
And you rake the leaves
And you put em in a pretty little pile
And when you turn your back
To the wind, it kicks up,
And swirls through the grass
And the leaves get picked up
And now you right back
At the point where you started
Leaves all over the yard
Now you could put your head down
Do it all again
Or decide that it wasn’t meant to be
Or you could get mad at yourself
And the wind, stay mad
For the next couple weeks
Swear to God it won’t happen again
Make a promise
That you could never keep
Or you could understand
That it’s out of your control
And with that, you could laugh heartily
What’s it gonna be?

CHORUS

And when you open your mouth
To laugh
The wind comes rushing in
To fill your lungs
And it’s like breathing…
It’s like breathing
For the very first time
And it feels so good

I’m comin up for air
I’m comin up, comin up for air
I don’t care
(repeat)

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from What's It Gonna Be?, released November 22, 2010

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Progressively dope, humanist hip-hop. Brooklyn. No School. All DIY everything.

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