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An Italian Dinner Part 1
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Rule of 1/3s
You know,
Like that's the one you want,
But she don't want you,
So you take quantity over quality
Like yeah, Ill take two
She shakin her head
In solemn disapprov
And you like, yeah
What's it to you,
Yeah exactly -
On the rocks…
my drinks - on the rocks…
me and my girl - on the rocks…
I'm on the edge of the cliff,
my dreams - on the rocks…
so it's pretty plain to see -
My life gettin rocky,
But no Adri-an - to help me Win,
But I'm feelin like Rocky,
Verse 1:
Just the other day somebody asked me the city
where baddest of the bad girls dwell,
They say - is it NY, nah,
is it A-T-L - nah,
Is it LA - yup that's hell…
#LA shady, a favor for a favor
I'll take you out, buy you drinks, you get me back later,
#LA shady, where the tricks stay lick in lips
find a prick to kick it with that may just drive a stick
La shady, La crazy
Run around clubs havin LA babies,
wouldn't be the first time,
couldn't be the first guy,
to watch somebody lose they self…
kick it with ya girls and these fakin ass mobsters,
creepin on your insta - waiting just a to holler,
seen these girls
use their curls
to get that booze >
to get that dude >
to get that coupe >
to get that du-Plex,
Flex, No stress, don't trip,
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Interlude-ASSumptions
00:35
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Verse 1:
Its lonely on the road an shorty ain’t calling me frequently,
but I'm always on the go so normally it never Botha me,
but a part of me is dialing her phone only to knowingly,
leave a message slowly then the moment will be gone...
but I go back and forth leaving messages and wandering -
the echoes of my mind for an answer to my pondering
that I don't even know but Slowly were growing apart it seems, when we talk it’s awkwardly, if we talk at all...
And am I over us
Or simply over feeling crushed,
And am I overwhelmed
Or underwhelmed by just,
How little that we talk,
that we laugh, that we touch?
And does she know,
And if I told her would she simply shrug?
HOOK
Verse 2:
Now its Colder in the snow, Winter will replace the autumn leaves,
Muting all the colors and replacing them with silent seeds,
of solitude and sorrow so I know I could be Overly,
Contemplating is she Over me, analyzing it like poetry,
but this feeling of the distance got a hold on vulnerabilities and won't let go, it's hard to see we're Leaning on our history
and resting on our laurels, slowly were growing apart it seems, when we talk its awkwardly, if we talk at all...
Say she feeling quite the same
thinking its the blame game,
Thinking I'm pointing fingers
That she doesn't do enough,
When it's really quite the opposite,
And she the only one,
With stuff enough to make me blush
And I'm missing her so much...
To And fro we go squandering these heavy thoughts,
when a simple sentiment of anything would quell the rush,
apologies are common between common folk like us,
who know exactly what it takes for the other to feel loved...
Like if I could just tell your dad
how much he means to you,
And what it would do if you knew
how much he believed in you,
And when he's not himself and mean to you,
how it eats through you and leaves bruises
no one can see but me and you...
But I'm not him, I'm just another man,
and can only account for the pain caused by these hands,
an These stone hands can't grasp
Glass - delicate as you
This neck charm don't clasp
Our Past -is breaking us in two
A noose - hanging us by what we
used to do…
So I'm sorry for all the yelling, Sorry for every curse
Sorry for even helping, All I do is make it worse
Sorry for being scary, Sorry that I'm a jerk
Sorry I should've have buried, The day I had at work
Sorry you should have done the same,
Baby it's okay, Gain - is measured by the things that you learn from the pain,
Sorry that I didn't let you go - No I'm not,
I'm happy I went all out - Sorry you did not,
Or maybe you really did and your feelings simply changed,
Or maybe you started talking to some-body, then again...
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You Always wanna’ know-what you did wrong-
If I can’t Tell you in person-I might as well write a song,
Tell you what level I’m on, how it all went wrong,
Hold On -don’t get that frown on-don’t start
With me till I’m finished an I’m far from done,
My love for you is all but for you ---far from gone,
I’ve had your back since you had one,
Like the boy your dad never had, I was the son,
And you were my sunshine , until it dried,
I was yours and you was mine, until it died,
In the end, in the end ALL I NEEDED WAS A FRIEND,
And you was the one I needed regardless that you was in,
Another RELATIONSHIP,
YOU FORGOT ABOUT DRE-AND YOU LICKETY SPLIT,
I WAS LEFT TO LICK THE WOUNDS AND SIP
WHATEVER WAS PUT IN FRONT OF ME WHILE YOU JUST SKIPPED,
OUT AND OUT AROUND TOWN WITH ANOTHER DICK,
WELL, MAYBE HE WAS COOL, I COULDN’T GIVE A SHIT
ABOUT HIM, AND YOU ABOUT ME, FORGOT,
OR THOUGHT NOT BEST TO INTERRUPT THE PLOT,
OF MY HEALING, YOU SENT ME REELING,
WHO WAS YOU TO TELL ME WHAT I WAS FEELING,
I WAS NEEDIN’ YOU AND I WAS BLEEDING,
YOU WERE HEEDING YOUR MIND, AND MY HEART MISTREATING,
YEAH I WASN’T OVER YOU, BUT I HAD A FRIEND,
AND THAT was gonna BE, BLOOD OUT, BLOOD IN,
You jump, I jump no matter who can't swim,
NO DOUBTS, NO WHIMS, from beginning to end,
IT’S BEEN GRIM BEFORE, BUT IT WAS NEVER THIS DIM,
For a friendship between us, pickins is slim,
If you ask me, I'd probably do it again,
I hope your happy and find a friend in him,
Verse 2
You were so fresh, betta’ than my best breathe, Fresher
Than my morning breathe, after I rinse With plaque,
Brush my teethe and have a breathe mint, You become my template,
Stimulated my mental, I massaged your breasts
And you massaged my temples, Gentle so Gentle,
It was never supposed to Happen, Axi-
Dental, Only lasted a short span
of time, like a rental, Senti-Mental
I was for you, Instra-Mental
It was for two, Funda-mental,
Evidently, Eventual events
Tend to make it messy, let’s see..
Let’s get to the point, the point is running away,
And the point is you runnin’ away from yesterday,
While I was stuck there, left there, Do YOU CARE!
HELLO! I’M STILL HERE! YOU STILL THERE!
Your judgment was not like your Skin: It wasn’t FAIR
And I’m beginning to think what I thought we had wasn’t there,
It wasn’t rare, we just a pair-COINCIDENCES
If it hurts to hear, it hurt worst to write This
Hurt worse to fight for months denying the bites
you took outta my heart,, the strength you took outta my might,
tryin’ to distinguish right, wrong and wrong from right,
Try to extinguish a blaze that still burn bright,
NO I’M NOT ALRIGHT! I wasn’t alright then,
And I’m not tonight, And probably not tomorrow,
And I’m NOT the type, to ask or borrow some Strength,
But the days that followed, left me in a trash bin,
Askin’ Myself- Where the Hell you been,
And all I saw was the white towel that you dropped in.
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An Italian Dinner Part 2
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1. Let me choke in the sadness of 60 tears
2. Let me drown in the solitude of 60 years
3. Let me dive in the abyss of 60 minutes
4. A minute for every thought, I have with us in it
5. Let me feel the heartache of 60 men
6. Because I lost my true love and lost a friend
7. Let me spread my seed thin with 60 chicks
8. So I forget who I am and forget your kiss
9. Give me, undisturbed: 60 years of sleep
10. With 60 dreams of you, where we swiftly creep
11. To 60 beaches on 60 shores
12. And when I wake up, give me 60 more
13. Let my back endure the pain of 60 blows
14. And may 60 arrows strike me cold
15. Make me forget the pain of your 60 No’s
16. Let my pen not fail me and sweetly flow
17. Give me, 60 lines of poetry and 60 prose
18. 60 sonnets and 60 flows
19. 60 of the greatest love songs ever writ
20. 60 of the most poetic verses a man ever spit
21. Where 60 words split the deafening silence
22. 60 verbs to describe your sweet caress
23. 60 arms couldn’t pry off my vice grip
24. 60 lessons of love I learned from our relationship
25. 60 more years to come to grips
26. That I would’ve endured the pain with 60 times the risk
27. Cause every kiss with you was 60 times the kiss
28. With you as my muse, my words were 60 times as crisp
29. Give me 60 enemies to prove my strength
30. That with your love I’m 60 times as great
31. 60 times as strong, can last 60 times as long
32. As 60 men or any earthly creature at all
33. In the blacks of Hell, I could endure 60 falls
34. For 60 milliseconds of your smell, I would put it all aside
35. Give up 60 lives, commit 60 crimes of love
36. And 60 suicides, endure triple 6’s, get shot with 60, 9’s or a .45
37. Cut myself 60 times with 60 knives
38. On 60 of my bodies pressure points, release some sickly cries
39. Or Gather 60 Shakras and murder 59
40. For one lifetime where we put together yours and mine
41. 60 seconds of life, a flashing memory in my mind’s eye
42. 60 blinks of 60 eyes, your b-e-a-u-t-y
43. 60 degrees of freedom, I had them, I didn’t need them
44. I would love to be your Adam and Even if you don’t need him
45. Annihilate 60 of my greatest memories to wake up
46. Next to you heavenly, In a musky sleep I’m losing steadily
47. I’m losing a grip, On this 60 beats per minute
48. I want it, I just can’t get it, what happened? I just don’t get it
49. I’m trying not to let it affect my whole credit
50. And get me all upset, it just don’t matter anymore
51. 60 black crows released from a darkened soul
52. Where a scarecrow of a man lets 60,000 thousand know
53. At a sold out show, that 60% of his whole
54. He can never get back, and don’t it always seem to go
55. That you don’t know what you got till it’s gone
56. In the 60’s they already wrote this song
57. So these 60 recycled lines are a players poem
58. Who lost the only game that mattered, it got shattered
59. With 60 times my imagination, I would’ve never fathomed
60. How much it could’ve mattered
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It ain't a matter of Time, it’s a matter of time,
Before I get signed, baby, it’s a matter of mine,
What’s a matter, we tryin, what’s a matter you tired,
What’s a matter you don’t believe in a dream, well fine,
But when you met me, you thought I was a helluva find,
I ain’t gone lie, I thought you was hella fine,
And when you made that decision to be by my side,
With shady people looking an watchin hopin we die,
And now we find ourselves in a hellofa bind,
I’m doin what I’m best at, with all of my time,
But time tickin and you thinking, I should be doin my 9
To 5, more instead of writing these lines,
But when you finally decided to be by my side,
You was down to ride, like Bonnie and clyde,
Sorry for the cliché, but these days your eyes,
Look pissed and defeated like I sacrificed
Time we could spent together: Hopin we rise
Open your eyes damn it, I need you, ride or die,
Sink or fly, shotgun in the front Or passerby,
Homeboys telling me son, Pass her by…
She don’t get it, she won’t get it, an I see you cry,
An it kills my pride, my princess bride,
Don’t ask me why, I stay up at nights,
Punchin words into this screen, Spitting on this mike,
Clicking away at odd hours till the shit sound tight,
Not tight enough yet, nope, still not right
Still not quite, that sound, still not bright
Momma didn’t understand, an still she like
Your Poppa wouldn’t understand, nope him neither,
An You say you love, but it’s hard to believe ya!
It’s harder to leave ya’, I don’t wanna murder us,
Be left alone to grieve ya’, but baby it's treason
to turn your back on your heart and listen to reason
ya boy ain't pleadin, he statin the facts
an if you leaves now, I ain't plan on on taking you back
I'm takin you back, I'm takin you back
Here's another one, I lost takin a crack
Swinging the bat back till I lie flat on my back
And she gone when I revive, so long, you was a dime
Till I wore you down to a nickel, the change is mine.
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That cupid chick - is a hell of a marksmen
shot me in the ass with a poisoned dart then
ran and played it off nonchalant when
the venom sank in and I was vulnerable an
never gave me the warning to proceed with caution
so I went forth like an idiot charged with awesome
intentions and hopes but batman needs robin,
instead I was robbed when we stopped talkin'
long talks in empty parking lots we parked in,
but I started running when you decided to walk it
but that's just me, endurance was never a problem
in life or in bed - c'mon poet get off it,
alright I'll stop it, but was is a man without his sense humor
That's a man who can't recognize his profits…
You've been the conduit for me to ponder my wrong doin'
and conjure a strength
to foster a change
make me stronger in ways I hope will benefit us,
but strange
that although I'm stronger I gaze
at the distance between us and on this stage
where all the worlds men play character - charades
I can't find your face, although in LA,
every night is a masquerade where fools play
dress up and posture themselves to gain...
But I know, I know you're tired of my postulates
and think to yourself they use to have a Charm to em,
but I guess it's gone and your games - I'm on to em,
always thought our names doubley had a bond to em,
Used to be drawn to it in a way that I could never explain
but Hey…the only promises we ever made,
was if you're over this shit - to move on - don't stay,
appreciate you keeping your end of the bargain,
The only time I discuss yesterday is when
an old friend asks - How are y'all doing?
And I break the bad news to 'em, We ain't doin',
we ain't laughin', we ain't kicking it, we through kid,
we ain't talkin-I went all out but lost it,
she ain't havin it-I ain't persuin-
no more makin love in soft sand by the light of the moon,
I gotta keep it movin', they like who you fooling,
ahhh screw it, laugh it off, play it cool,
play it off, like let's get it then dog,
I order a couple of drinks - they like - who you screwin?
a couple pretty things help take the sting off,
see if a jump off will brush the rust off...
I'm trying tho, I'm trying yo, to find tho,
a balance, between losin my-self and makin her smile tho,
What I'm supposed? Yeah.. I know,
They say if you let it go,
and it never come back - Yeah, Adios,
Is it that simple? do I gotta let it goooo…
Till we got wrinkles --that's where we were headed tho,
You know that foreva eva foreva eva,
Now we on some - It is what it is SHIT,
like yeah -Whatever,
Whateva's Clever - and my endeavor,
But I'm gettin shut down straight clowned and beat down,
For every effort,
Without me it seems - the queen, is doing better,
Check mate the King, I was a Pawn used in the set up,
You need time - you got it?
You take it baby - You on it…
The problems were getting crazy,
You saw it and were a Goner…..
Well get up, Poet, get up, - if she fed up, it's for the better,
Cause better now! than find out how when you not around she LEFT…
It's not that I chose to lose, I chose the truth,
and I was always straight up when it came to you,
backfire on that guy, so I lace the booth,
While you and your chicks in the club and you raise the roof,
why nice guys finish dead last - Here's the proof,
I shoulda painted you a fantasy - drank the juice,
Where’s the Dragon, in the book, in the fairy tale,
The is beast life, two people gotta make it through,
Which two, I guess you know better than I do,
it's not me and you?
Good luck I hope that you find Dude,
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An Italian Dinner Part 3
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From Time - Drake Remix
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You damn right I'm confident, but you know that I had to be,
If I wasn't, how could I land, you stand next to me,
I think I'm afraid of me, and I'm paying the fee,
blind to whatever everyone is telling' me is plain to see,
I got a good girl, fuck it, a dinner is good,
I see what's on my plate baby, My girl is great,
better that great, better then grapes when you wait,
for them to age and we take a sip together, while watching the rain,
but like the raindrops falling - you slipping away,
and now the street is just as wet as the tears of my face,
I couldn't see it, I'm paying for it, it's my mistake,
I thought you were the reason I decided to wait
So forgive me - even if skies are grey,
I'm gonna learn and love you little better with each day,
This ain't a situation, my charm will help me escape,
I had to do some soul searching, and be willing to say,
I messed up…. and I'm asking for grace,
I'm not asking God, I'm asking you to your face,
Cause I hurt you and made you think we weren't in the same place,
We were - it's just you were a little a head of me in the race,
I'm fat, It took me a second to catch up,
I'm sorry men are slow and I ain't felt another embrace,
like the one between us, the feeling insane,
We made it through so many things but they still couldn't break,
hook:
Verse 2:
Everyday that passes raises the stakes,
Not afraid anymore - and you're saying its too late,
You think the good times were good, you only got a taste,
I wanna be a part of your life, your favorite part,
Yeah I'm artist, but quite frankly your laugher is art,
the little things are little things, can't drive us apart,
but the big things are the big things I should've fixed from the start,
Time is nothing to me, You have my heart,
this ain't a movie I'm not role playing the part,
I'm don't wanna chill with you, just to make you happy,
I'm ready to embrace the bullshit, I'm old and sappy,
If I'm at a club, my girl better be there to catch me,
when I'm toe up and the bouncers gotta grab me,
you're supposed to be back stage, the shit starts happening,
and I rip it, and I walk off, you kiss me frantically,
we're supposed to on planes, to go do things,
surprise you with a dress and some cute earrings,
really What am I always in a hurry to go To DO?,
nothing means anything if it doesn't include you -
boo, true, two it takes to tango, but the blues
are
sung by 1, and I'm singing em hon,
I respect you more and more like everyday,
I love the way you talk, even if you cuss at me,
there's not a single thing about you I could ever hate,
and I'm devastated my dumb ass made you feel that way,
I u got more problems at the end of the day,
and the truth is I need you to help me you make it all okay,
Don't go away, not yet, we're just starting things,
We got a long life of creating memories,
At dinner I'll make you laugh, throw away my phone,
And when we argue, I'l be gentle and work on my tone,
fuck it, I'll even get a pedicure and work on my toes,
I wouldn't do this for any girl, that's how I know you gotta be,
the one, cause only the one could make me wanna be
a better me….
Sincerely,
Ali
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Voice Mail - A New Year
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Poet Ali Long Beach, California
Poet Ali is a unique lyricist and songwriter, whose electric stage presence is only matched with the versatility and thirst for songwriting. His influence and style can not be pin-pointed. He has written and performed with Artists from all genres and styles and enjoys producing and arranging as much as performing. ... more
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