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haha, Radical #6: Don't Hide

by haha, Radical

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they call me weird, never knowin fear is compliment.
I thought it meant beyond the mundance,
But I guess to them it just smells a little strange.
Never speakin with rage, I simply listen to their refrain:

"You must be a creative type", yea that's right.
double time your praise. Double time.
I'm still gonna stand here.
This is my lane.

When you're normal, you spend all your time writin a word that everyone already knows.

When you're weird, you make 'em run to a dictionary to find your meaning.

So they have to hold just a little bit of the unknown
and fold it over in their mind.

Maybe they never keep it, so you know they don't hold much over time.

Maybe they were just tickled by your rhymes,
Maybe they drunk deep from your reason.

Either way I keem em seekin the decent.

And of course they gonna find it,
But only after they prove that they can rewind it,
And when we become masters of time, able to let the world come find a role for all us roley-polis,
Bows of jollies decorate the way.

Bows of jollies decorate the way.

Don't hide what makes you different, etc.

And I exhibit myself,
Never restrain a face for another's pausin.
Jaws are the first thing I dropped.
Then beats came to really make a party hop into the hip with the strangeness I drip.

Never take a tip from someone willing to give it.

That's what the world taught us.

But I was brought up to conjure compassion for everyone I see,
So I keep it hidden, got you thinkin something different durin declarations,
Think!,
is how you need to see the truth.
It's not something transmitted through televisions.

Don't hide yourself in front of a tube.
Don't tie yourself down to an illusion.
Don't hide what makes you different.
Don't become one statistic of many who can report on whether or not they liked somethin.
Don't think your decisions are to watch this or something else.
Don't even think you need to listen to the rest of this song if you think it's shitty.
Don't hide what makes you different.

It ain't money makin them pictures move.
Your mind can do that.
It's called reading.
Be more than an empty room.

credits

released March 7, 2012
me, and Charles Mingus with band for their wonderful recording of "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" for Mingus Mingus Mingus!

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