Themes: Rest in Peace Narrisa McNeal, Bill Milligan, Deborah Thomas, Jack Guillebeaux, and too many others. This song explores the compromises people make to build ideas about home; the way the stories we tell about home shape our identities; Redistricting’s impact on voting rights; using ancient and new tools/traditions/skills to thrive; embracing rather than fearing the constancy of change; the universal significance of home; tension between home as source of constant change, life, death, growth, shelter for immigrants and strangers and home as source of familiar, protection, tradition.
lyrics
I
Some of the times
All of the times
I I I I I will feel a way
Down
Or maybe too up too
I can’t decide
Which of these lines
To draw between the place you live
Or mine
You don’t need to worry much
All you need you know
Everything we’ve ever touched
Is everything you hold, trembling
Some of the times
Most of the times
Back and forth
around Again
we go
Home to who?
I’m in love with just one
Just one two
Just one two
Just one two
I’m in love with Just one
Just one two
Just one two
Just one two
We gon break out the trap yo
If we make us a map yo
And Use our tools
Use our tools
We gon break out the trap yo
If we make us a map yo
And Use your tools
Use your tools
II
When I was five
I chose a side
My daddy would let me watch him work
In a dark room
He’d make a bath
Drop in the print
then rinse off
The shiny black and white
That dark room is now a light
colors flash and people drive
Secrets buried deep inside
Scenes that grow
scenes that try, then again
Some of the time
Most of the time
We keep moving on
To the next town
Home to who?
We’re in love with just one
Just one two
Just one two
Just one two
We’re in love with Just one
Just one two
Just one two
Just one two
We gon break out the trap yo
If we make us a map yo
And Use our tools
Use our tools
We gon break out the trap yo
If we make us a map yo
And Use your tools
Use your tools
Big broken thankful
Nothing on my ankles
More Black fire than the oil tankers
I pass by while interstating
Me and I-10 so innovative
In remote locations throughout the Gulf Nation
They claim it ain’t space to bring some more Haitians
Ecuadorians, Salvadorians
Far as I can tell we need some more of them
Our little towns ain’t getting no bigger
Bout one citgo maybe 4 dollar generals
In general ain’t it plain to see
It don’t work for you
The math work for me
Now let me vote in peace
Don’t strip me, don’t clip me
Don’t crack me don’t pack me
Don’t flip me
We dry, they wet
It’s tempting
To leave home, dive in, go swimming
Mainstream waters never been that deep
But we can still drown when we on our knees
Stood up, stayed down, when I left
Made home missed home caught a jet
My map in tack, whole county true
North Star of my soul brought my back to who?
You won, you won, nothing new
1&1 make fun, 1&1 make wooooo
I’m in love with just one
Just one two
Just one two
Just one two
I’m in love with Just one
Just one two
Just one two
Just one two
We gon break out the trap yo
If we make us a map yo
And Use our tools
Use our tools
We gon break out the trap yo
If we make us a map yo
And Use your tools
Use your tools
The north side will help you live free
The east side will help you live right
The south side will help you believe
The west side will dance all night
The East side will help you live free
The south side will help you live right
The west side will help you believe
The north side will dance all night
The south side will help you live free
The west side will help you live right
The north side will help you believe
The East side will dance all night
The west side will help you live free
The north side will help you live right
The East side will help you believe
The south side will dance all night
Production
Felt Five Thompson
Bao Pham
Shake the Field
Mastering and Mixing Engineer
Bao Pham, Mixology Studios Online
Recording Engineer
Tyler Atkisson, Robert Shimp, Technical Earth Recorders, Montgomery, AL
Felt Five Thompson, Technical Earth Recorders, Felt House, and The Beacon, Montgomery, AL
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