This song asks what the surprise in a shoebox is; all the memories and pain stored there are what really comprise whatever shapes your current outlook in the world
lyrics
*Raga riffing*
...
Solace, summertime was honest
Walk around the town and shared our local truths
How you grow
I know I'll go anywhere you want at all, at all, Allah?
Don't go wasting time, show your misty eyes
Hotel with the dice, formal not precise
You know
Yeah, yeah
You know
I'm hoping our paved roads
Now I have to go, not alone
Don't worry, don't worry about me
Woooo!
Woooo!
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Wooowooaohh…, heh!
She ask me how you spend your time…
Why don’t you spend the night
Haven’t you not been before?
I take you to a place you can’t ignore
Fuck around you can name the game
Funny that I’m so insane
I don’t want you to leave…please just say my name
I made a thousand…ooooh sang a thousand or maybe more, Ima make sure I make more…keepin these thoughts in
All the time, when you talk…ooohwoahhh it’s what you have to gain…acting like it never happened with you…yuh (yeeuh)
Now you wishin that yo name was bigger
Finna meet’em at the top, ooohwoahhh, remember where you came…mind moving at a thousand…yuh
I don’t wanna be late
You can’t allow me to dance around it, anything I can find…just like before, I been taken back by what made the game
Am I the only one that stayed the same
When I’m in town for me…you better make time this world is mine
supported by 5 fans who also own “Shoebox (Fahim Rahman, Emmett Sola, & Sandeep Kanchiraju)”
saw Thundercat for the first time recently - truly a GOAT of live performers. this album is him in his most honest, focused, and emotional state, and it beautifully intertwines his silly artistic voice with his stories of struggle and loss. the album is short and sweet - BUT, if you want to see him and his friends jam a little longer on these ideas, definitely see him live. the dude literally practices like Coltrane and it shows. zilla
One of the last albums to be recorded at Brooklyn's Silent Barn, a jazz-inflected soul/spoken word EP full of grace and heart. Bandcamp New & Notable May 9, 2018