I'm not particularly fond of this video. I can already see the negative influence Kin Kardashian will have on his music; I just hope he takes the advice he preaches and moves forward once he's tired of the bullshit.
What I love about this song is the realness that his lyrics convey in the world that we live in. Let me share and discuss...
What I love about this song is the realness that his lyrics convey in the world that we live in. Let me share and discuss...
I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind
I'm building a sill to slow down the time
I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind
I'm building a sill to slow down the time
'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind
I'm building a sill to slow down the time
[Chorus: x2]
I'm lost in the World, I'm down on my mind
I'm new in the city, and I'm down for the night
Down for the night
Said she's down for the night
[Kanye West:]
Your my Devil, Your my Angel
Your my Heaven, Your my Hell
Your my Now, Your my Forever
Your my Freedom, Your my Jail
Your my Lies, Your my Truth
Your my War, Your my Truce
Your my Questions, Your my Proof
Your my Stress and your my Masseuse
Mama-say mama-say ma-ma-coo-sah
Lost in this Plastic life,
Let's Break out of this fake ass Party
Turn this in to a Classic Night
If we die in each others arms we still get laid in our Afterlife
If we die in each others arms we still get laid
[Chorus: x2]
I'm lost in the World, I'm down on my mind
I'm new in the city, and I'm down for the night
Down for the night
Said she's down for the night
Who will survive in America
Who will survive in America
Who will survive in America
[Chorus: x2]
I'm lost in the World, I'm down on my mind
I'm new in the city, and I'm down for the night
Down for the night
Said she's down for the night
[Gil-Scott Heron:]
Us living as we do upside down.
And the new word to have is revolution.
People don't even want to hear the preacher spill or spiel because God's whole card has been thoroughly piqued.
And America is now blood and tears instead of milk and honey.
The youngsters who were programmed to continue fucking up woke up one night digging Paul Revere and Nat Turner as the good guys.
America stripped for bed and we had not all yet closed our eyes.
The signs of Truth were tattooed across our open ended vagina.
We learned to our amazement untold tale of scandal.
Two long centuries buried in the musty vault, hosed down daily with a gagging perfume.
America was a bastard the illegitimate daughter of the mother country whose legs were then spread around the world and a rapist known as freedom, free doom.
Democracy, liberty, and justice were revolutionary code names that preceded the bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling in the mother country's crotch
What does Webster say about soul?
All I want is a good home and a wife
And a children and some food to feed them every night.
After all is said and done build a new route to China if they'll have you.
Who will survive in America?
Who will survive in America?
Who will survive in America?
Who will survive in America?
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy came out around the same time I returned back to the United States from a two year stint in Honduras and when the love of my life betrayed me in the ultimate way possible. I thought the connection between every song and the way the world was working at the time of its arrival was completely genius and I still do. This song stuck out to me as one his finest because of the lyrics, the urgency of his beats, and the end monologue that sums up what the late 20's early 30's person is feeling right about now: the realization that dreams can also not be realized and the world is far more complicated than what we imagined and what we were led to believe by our elders. I find this song to be my current state of mind. As I attempt to realize my dreams, everyday I feel lost in the world in search of something new and unknown. The life I thought I was meant to live just does not exist anymore and I am no longer on the path everyone follows. Where I am heading, I do not know; I don't think anyone knows at this point, but where the path ends I perceive will be completely different than what my parents experience and envisioned for me.
As for the lyrics, the first part I think refers to life and the people in life. They are both good and bad and this realization is placed in so many different perspectives, but it always leads to the same conclusion. And what is our solution? Find the person who's worth putting up with both faces and just have the best time of your life why you consume this passion until it dies and you move on to the next person. Then, you die PERIOD.
And finally my favorite part of the song. As a History major and a US history buff, I felt a combination of happiness and sadness for the realization that our country, wonderful as it may seem at times, was built on the foundations of taking away and figuratively raping its resources into depletion. "America was a bastard, the illegitimate daughter of the mother country (England) whose legs were spread around the world..." This in itself can be connected not only to America but also to the high prevalence of single mothers taking care of children because the fathers are no longer in the picture or are sent away. It is no longer a taboo to have children out of wedlock, but to connect to the bigger picture, the idea that the US was something wrong has never been brought up in such a "in your face" way to almost reconsider your convictions and beliefs. And that is so powerful, that it hits the very heart and mind of a person, and that is why I love it.
Like Kanye West, you can hate it or love it, but you feel something and you see this man talking straight from his heart and soul. Pure genius, ambition, and talent. Enjoy.
I'm building a sill to slow down the time
I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind
I'm building a sill to slow down the time
'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind
I'm building a sill to slow down the time
[Chorus: x2]
I'm lost in the World, I'm down on my mind
I'm new in the city, and I'm down for the night
Down for the night
Said she's down for the night
[Kanye West:]
Your my Devil, Your my Angel
Your my Heaven, Your my Hell
Your my Now, Your my Forever
Your my Freedom, Your my Jail
Your my Lies, Your my Truth
Your my War, Your my Truce
Your my Questions, Your my Proof
Your my Stress and your my Masseuse
Mama-say mama-say ma-ma-coo-sah
Lost in this Plastic life,
Let's Break out of this fake ass Party
Turn this in to a Classic Night
If we die in each others arms we still get laid in our Afterlife
If we die in each others arms we still get laid
[Chorus: x2]
I'm lost in the World, I'm down on my mind
I'm new in the city, and I'm down for the night
Down for the night
Said she's down for the night
Who will survive in America
Who will survive in America
Who will survive in America
[Chorus: x2]
I'm lost in the World, I'm down on my mind
I'm new in the city, and I'm down for the night
Down for the night
Said she's down for the night
[Gil-Scott Heron:]
Us living as we do upside down.
And the new word to have is revolution.
People don't even want to hear the preacher spill or spiel because God's whole card has been thoroughly piqued.
And America is now blood and tears instead of milk and honey.
The youngsters who were programmed to continue fucking up woke up one night digging Paul Revere and Nat Turner as the good guys.
America stripped for bed and we had not all yet closed our eyes.
The signs of Truth were tattooed across our open ended vagina.
We learned to our amazement untold tale of scandal.
Two long centuries buried in the musty vault, hosed down daily with a gagging perfume.
America was a bastard the illegitimate daughter of the mother country whose legs were then spread around the world and a rapist known as freedom, free doom.
Democracy, liberty, and justice were revolutionary code names that preceded the bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling in the mother country's crotch
What does Webster say about soul?
All I want is a good home and a wife
And a children and some food to feed them every night.
After all is said and done build a new route to China if they'll have you.
Who will survive in America?
Who will survive in America?
Who will survive in America?
Who will survive in America?
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy came out around the same time I returned back to the United States from a two year stint in Honduras and when the love of my life betrayed me in the ultimate way possible. I thought the connection between every song and the way the world was working at the time of its arrival was completely genius and I still do. This song stuck out to me as one his finest because of the lyrics, the urgency of his beats, and the end monologue that sums up what the late 20's early 30's person is feeling right about now: the realization that dreams can also not be realized and the world is far more complicated than what we imagined and what we were led to believe by our elders. I find this song to be my current state of mind. As I attempt to realize my dreams, everyday I feel lost in the world in search of something new and unknown. The life I thought I was meant to live just does not exist anymore and I am no longer on the path everyone follows. Where I am heading, I do not know; I don't think anyone knows at this point, but where the path ends I perceive will be completely different than what my parents experience and envisioned for me.
As for the lyrics, the first part I think refers to life and the people in life. They are both good and bad and this realization is placed in so many different perspectives, but it always leads to the same conclusion. And what is our solution? Find the person who's worth putting up with both faces and just have the best time of your life why you consume this passion until it dies and you move on to the next person. Then, you die PERIOD.
And finally my favorite part of the song. As a History major and a US history buff, I felt a combination of happiness and sadness for the realization that our country, wonderful as it may seem at times, was built on the foundations of taking away and figuratively raping its resources into depletion. "America was a bastard, the illegitimate daughter of the mother country (England) whose legs were spread around the world..." This in itself can be connected not only to America but also to the high prevalence of single mothers taking care of children because the fathers are no longer in the picture or are sent away. It is no longer a taboo to have children out of wedlock, but to connect to the bigger picture, the idea that the US was something wrong has never been brought up in such a "in your face" way to almost reconsider your convictions and beliefs. And that is so powerful, that it hits the very heart and mind of a person, and that is why I love it.
Like Kanye West, you can hate it or love it, but you feel something and you see this man talking straight from his heart and soul. Pure genius, ambition, and talent. Enjoy.
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