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adam mansbach - still life moving lyrics

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adolescent barrio lotharios
memorize & recite

cinematic cadillac advice

holdin summer night summits
on other people’s cars

got romance down to a science like alchemy

& more than happy
to explain
how to get to second base

by feelin up the cleavage
in the virgin/wh0r- dichotomy

girl lean over & unlock yo door hey

don’t unlock it ho

everybody nods & then
my man tris

raises the bar
on that foolishness
like buss this

if a chick doesn’t think
rakim is the illest mc ever

then man i can’t f-ck with her on any serious level

everybody nods i squint
into my brew
& try to strip
the concrete off the streets

imagining harlem
when these hills
were covered with trees
& teemed with dinosaurs

i smile around my straw
replace papi’s cornerstore
with a triceratops

& reflect that cats ain’t got
no less hardheaded
since the mesozoic era
on this block

for evidence you can check
my homey brett

the projects’ best defense
against a t rex on the flex

even the way
he offers you a beer
is like a threat

dudes been known to jet
rather than deal with him & yet
you gotta give the cat respect

the crazy
spic-mick deck you in a sec
blackbelt meathead
lives in a world without regret

now & forever
the unofficial president
of the neighborhood pride -ssociation

meaning the only one old school enough
to scr-p for his block’s reputation

one of those
dudes whose

broma favorita’s p-ssing
right where people chillin
instead of over on the wall

cats pick theyselves up quick

askin what the f-ck’s the matter
with you
as they scatter

only response they ever get is laughter

busybody blockparty mamis
swoop offa stoops
like pterodactyls

if they smell a fight

but nowadays not much jumps off
to get them moving

it’s just cats sittin chillin bullsh-ttin
doin nothin

empty cervezas frias jutting from the pavement

like stalagt-tes

a lack of activity
partly due
to the market’s
relative stability

twelve years ago
in the late
sh-tisf-ckedup period

this block was hyperactive

knee deep delirious
in a crack economy

oldtimers got war stories like iraqis

but today
a little bit of lley
& lotsa weed
is all you see

next to the roti spot
some muneca even opened a boutique

it’s always empty
but then again so is papi’s deli
except for overripe platanos
stale dutchies & brew

the tv repair shop
except for electronic junkheaps
& four mujeres gordas
playin poker in the backroom

& the unis-x salon
except for three bored bellas
watchin telenovelas
& a clownmouthed pink lipstick wearin
anciana from my building
who stops in with her dog to talk

only business on its feet appears to be
the chinese takeout kitchen

which in addition to flippin
sweet n sour chicken
& pork fried rice
has now diversified
in order to embrace a wide
multicultural variety
of sh-t you can fry

let me tell you
you ain eaten
until you had platanos szechuan style

straight out the wok
with a little soy sauce

don’t think that sh-t
won’t hit you off

cats go in there so much
they know everybody’s name address diet

if he notice you ain orderin enough iron
money throw some spinach
in with your kung po shrimp
no extra charge

even got free delivery
for when you too treed up
to walk a half a street up

so it’s no wonder
styrofoam combination plate containers
greased with emptysqueezed
packets of duck sauce
blow across
the sidewalks of the block

as coolbreeze dances
with the merengue
jimmy’s blastin on his box

two a.m. & no
callate silencio
from viejos in windows

no noise reports no cops

plus when they do roll through they strangely cool
all they say is quiet down or move it to the park

i’m telling you
rita got a fat -ss

p-ss the blunt

d-mn it’s still too godd-mn hot

wish mami’d sent me to summer camp like ramon

man f-ck that nasty cold-ss lake & f-ck ramon
tomorrow we gonna take a wrench to that fire hydrant

& go swimmin citystyle

- adam mansbach lyrics

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