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Verse 1

I flooded your cities, I loosened the locks behind the gates

you snuck in all viewed it

We were the image of transparency, a wish to beat back a nightmare reality

By being something different we forfeited the carefully measured set of rules

Still we got game, still life made choices, we’d known in school, Cool with that?

I still speak a sentence that no one understands, street jargon, in front of the old guard and

eloquent speech in front of the gang bang, we won’t ever be tamed.

Hook

So I say child, stay, stay wild

I’ll play a maven on the wing tips of Ravens x2

So I say Mom you’ve known me all along

Trying to be an expert, find me in that next bird x2

Verse 2

When did we stop being of a genuine value to our elders

Was it when they were digging fox holes, to fight against helpless, people just like them?

Or was it in that moment’s enticement

For a nation’s own self agrandizement

I saw the way your grandpa’s eyes bent

and tears choke back over hands I lent

Why vent, why complain, why struggle in vain

Because you, because me, we’re the same

I built this fortress to be so plain

brick by brick and day by day

We are both our shared reasons for being

And our look to the outer for a clearer meaning

We are also our deepest fears seething

We’re hands clasped behind back in greeting

Hook

So I say child, stay, stay wild

I’ll play a maven on the wing tips of Ravens x2

So I say Mom you’ve known me all along

Trying to be an expert, find me in that next bird x2

Verse 3

Forefeiture, of a tortured soul

I gave you up, so long ago

Suffer sometimes and have a ways to grow

But I no longer willingly relinquish control

Sit in the hole, or struggle on out of it

My personal revolution my mouth shouts it

Can only be an example, doubt love if

It hurts more than it heals, make no vows to quit

A crow in shroud sits, to watch over us all

Is an incredibly tall order to call

So why would, why would, you choose that at all

When the shoulder of strength will tumble and fall

Learn to crawl, learn to stumble walk on

Forget the socializations you rest upon

This might find me standing next to dawn

but it resonates for you as I’m long, gone.

credits

from A Shapely Sign of Things to Come, released July 3, 2012
Produced by Urine
Recorded and Mixed by Justin Urness
Mastered by Matt Olson at Ghost in My House Studio

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Hyphon Columbus, Ohio

Hyphon is more Henry David Thoreau than Gucci Mane. More likely to aspire to fill the shoes of Eugene V. Debs than Warren Buffet. Using music to deliver an urgent cry for people to wake to the life that is possible for us all. Hyphon’s music thus takes on a uniqueness not found in both mainstream and independent hip hop. Genuine emotion and passionate delivery make him impossible to ignore. ... more

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