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john thompson
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Social Science
john thompson was released on September 30, 2022 by Relative Pitch Record as a part of the album Moten
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AlbumMoten
Release DateSeptember 30, 2022
LabelRelative Pitch Record
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Fred Moten
Fred Moten
Lead Vocals
Brandon López
Brandon López
Double Bass
Gerald Cleaver
Gerald Cleaver
Drums
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Fred Moten
Fred Moten
Songwriter
Brandon López
Brandon López
Songwriter
Gerald Cleaver
Gerald Cleaver
Songwriter

Lyrics

like a blacksmith
the all blacks are
not any more than
all other things are
the man who wear
his blackness well
over his shoulder
like a towel.
one high fist is press
 essence michael
graham and patrick
back the cold frenzy
up front like ahmad
jamal. jonah lomu's
edge and curve of black
block move like tony
smith (saginaw, michigan)
like dmitri chandler and
played with love like
gene smith like fierce
mourning open to some
one's loss and someone's
gift and all up in smith's
chest (whose name is a
locked set of jonahs
on eakins' contact
sheet like renee gladman
said) like smith was kyle
macy like he was the
new thing the sncc
barrelhouse played fire
soft like sonny murray's
 
moses blown inside and
down the black hand
side of the left hand
sideline. like a gem
hadar tufted booblehead
in a johnny cash black
and off-black onesie and
all black derby like sonny
boy williamson in helena
smuggling harp like trane
like sonny on the bridge
like black night falling
like michael graham
on sonny's time
now like peck curtis like
little brother montgomery
black-blocking art chords
slowly curling out the
blocks of new color like
tony smith singing
broken lines then sleek
burning flying breaking
windows in exile like
piet mondrian at fred
oakley's. keen-toed
angled one high fist and
black-ribbed dress socks
curling straight out the
blocks in bright half-
diamonds like tommie
smith like john thompson's
high blacksmith hands
like nora nicolini
Written by: Brandon López, Fred Moten, Gerald Cleaver
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