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Vocal Kidnaping
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Vocal Kidnaping was released on January 1, 2011 by Comet Records as a part of the album The Great Depression
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Release DateJanuary 1, 2011
LabelComet Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM139

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Doctor L
Doctor L
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Doctor L
Doctor L
Composer
Liam Farrell
Liam Farrell
Composer

Lyrics

I don't wanna live vicariously through a superstar
I wanna listen to Michel and just vibe to my revolution
With tracks 8 and 18 just hanging in the background
Wherever I am, on my way to a village in Africa
Or on a flight to a district in Austria
Or walking or riding the bus anywhere outside of my American Dream
I don't wanna live vicariously through a superstar
And just settle for the way things move around me
I don't wanna live vicariously through a superstar
Okay, vibe to my revolution
American Dream
I don't wanna live vicariously through a superstar
And just settle for the way things move around me
American Dream
We astound me, see the box folding profoundly
And move to accommodate our blue state, drowning the brown
Eternally I was still found as a stranger in the corner of a closet
This time, vibing to the sound of Negroes
Beckoning those to come and service me
While I contemplated the pose of female Moses
The most deserving she of kin to me
Who got jiggy with her past, I heard calling me to just be free
I don't wanna live vicariously through a superstar
That feeling got me feeling like, "Maybe this is who you are"
This got me happy like Sunday morning devotion
When I was hype about church, God
Now I'm just hype about God
Black man, white man
Maybe the universe had me shipped and tagged
Brown face on the cover of Vibe magazine
But I can still feel Africa and imagine her between my fingers
The struggle lingers with me during class time
The sight of my last line was a discussion on romantic poetry
American Dream
'Cause I can't hide the scars that I picked or the ones I inflict
Cupid kicked me 'cause I broke his arrow
But I know slow, real love when I feel it
I don't wanna live vicariously through a superstar
'Cause I got way too much flavor to be content on a new car
Purple Converse with the one star
I gotta learn to read between these lines
So every cop don't find my fist
Tryna re-twist number seven on the list of poets
Just give me the gift
Vibe to my revolution
Lord, just give me the gift to uplift my fist
'Cause if I had been the last one
I'd be my mama's son with the sun staring into me
Like my brother Half Note daring him to be that sixth man
I got a mad quote that I wrote for Hi-C
"Third time's a charm, fool"
Don't let the system defeat you vicariously through that superstar
'Cause there's an instrumental in my ear
Got sounds of creek beds trying to trap a boy called Creek Monster
Between high school hallways in the solace of his own existence
And the judge is gon' sentence him to die
Before he sentence those rocks to cry out against that lie
The ones that sentence his no why from
His no how to be about his right now
I don't wanna live vicariously through a superstar
I wanna be a dope poet on the back of
Somebody, back of somebody's T-shirt
I wanna daydream about Rastafarians
Seated Indian style on European street corners
Singing Natty Dread, Natty Dread for change
Soul playing chorus on the pulse of mourning
What if the sun lived vicariously through the moon
And you never felt the presence of the afternoon blues?
Tell me, which superstar would be your food?
Which superstar would be your food?
Peace
Eyes do I see
Oh, oh, what have you done?
And the bombs bursting in air
Rockets' red glare, racing to the what?
You just racing to the what?
What is the race?
Bombs bursting in air, what is the race?
Eyes do I see
Oh, oh, do you feel the boom of your poetry slam?
Do you feel the bottom of your poetry slam?
Do you feel the eyes racing in your poetry slam?
Do you feel the boom of your poetry slam?
Do you feel the bottom of your poetry slam?
Do you feel the eyes racing?
Written by: Doctor L, Liam Farrell
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