Testify

So you go to the club and turn the party out
Music real hot and the people jump and shout
Pats on the back and you're feeling really great
But there is something but this thing that starts to aggravate

See you go home at night and sleep all alone
And the feeling from thing gone by the break of dawn
Sure you spit the rhymes and the groove was real fat
But you never told the people where your heart was at

You've got to testify You've got to testify You've got to testify
What the Lord has done for you
You've got to testify You've got to testify You've got to testify
What the Lord has done for you

No you and no me unless Jah say so
No mountain no tree unless Jah say so
No ocean no sea unless Jah say so
No music no poetry unless Jah say so

Ever since I was a child I want to make a CD
But no CD unless Jah say it was for me
Ever since I was a child I want to make a CD
But no CD unless Jah say it was for me

And so I testify You've got to testify You've got to testify
What the Lord has done for you
You've got to testify You've got to testify You've got to testify
What the Lord has done for you

What is happening here?
Dreams of death in the wilderness
Poems of death in a heavenly heart and
Spiders in a pocket of dreams
I go back and forth dreaming dreams of a newness
dreaming of self and of worth and weary hearts in cement
Back and forth its a troublesome sort
Sort of a sport lost and found
Barbecued pheasant and blackjack
court crimson, livesome trials
some frivals and dials
with a Nexcecian rival
Hollow, hollow, hollow men
playing the games of a brother
never, never, never knew
bestial frump in the covers
some sorted limerick its going for days
displays craze amaze and even appraise
the art of an object
persimmon coke and a new-fangled joke
sport a fresh new tasty subject
I'm going to keep writing while this page looks inviting
and barren without all this newness
Abarhee I'm sorry grounded and founded
With a de la haircut
Lock of ness to impress
make a mess of the covers
Spew glue let sunshine on through
and continue this game of a newness
continue inside with the tiger inside and a smile
of gloating and tortness, torture, whole orchard
orchid, spore mid, check heck a speck a trick of
black ink pad, stamp trample, dance vample
trick new strides of the curve-less

Helping the dreamer with star spangled creamer
and coffee no caffeine to go
when ever a feeling of propensish dreaming
ascends or descends above or below me can't of
thinking and drinking and a nausea associated with that
over indulgence that
FUNK is its own reward
Can't be spared for a rhyme for the time
with a bass lick dance quick
drum stick to a rhyme pattern and
beat sense when to beat senseless rhyming
don't know don't care for the timing
haven't made sense since the outset
got a nickel to spare so what so who care
gonna spend it in thirds and fiths and but shit with it
spit spickle spiddle twiddle my thumbs to the music
got a band that will heat up
dance get your feet up
move groove to the sooth saying goof with the wacky whacked
rhyme spinning mal-oder
meloder meloder this rhymes getting bolder and soon will be nothing but nonsense
but it has a nice flow and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes
so go flow and don't throw whack rhymes at me
got a nickel to spare and what do I care if the rest of this shit goes with the music
hoff hoffer and laugh at your madder cadder
toot minute skin flute with you flugle valve oiled to the max
fax faxed facts its the faex with a down under gig and gigs nightly
funny frightening how little how far for Greeley big stars
Playing Bars! Wow jahooey!
ooey gooey sticky hong kong fooey
I remember...
December
the red suited vision of falsehood sold in childhood
good
slighting lightning and sighting
of reindeer in sleigh gear and night wear
see through panties and gowns make reindeer look like clowns
never heard such drivel
swivel chair thinning hair
briefcase with paper and shit
big business can I get a witness?
I ain't with this
enough said
arms dead, can't do my homework or practice
do I lack this?
imuteable dutiful
lifting, uplifting
oh God lifting is so uplifting
Burger King, hey! I'm with this
eqat shit that sticks quick and feel sick, ugh!
But what about drugs and thugs that sell mugs
That say "world's greatest boss"
What's it cost?
$5.95 we'll put candy inside and pass it around at the office
don't, don't know where its going
don't, don't know where to end
Its rhyme slime from my mind to paper
newness thats where it started
newness of a dream revelation
newness, newness if you can get through this then the newness has already started

You've got to testify You've got to testify You've got to testify
What the Lord has done for you
You've got to testify You've got to testify You've got to testify
What the Lord has done for you

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