Softee Boy
Softee Boy
Album By Jim Swim
Eyes closed for the ritual
Light glow for the visual
Iso’d and original
I know I'm formidable
Time flies got grown in it
All parts get shown in it
All heart no stone in it
What’s hard can’t flow in it
I’m no cynic
I know systems and circumstance
They curve the current
I’m workin' to make the circuit dance
I surge when mergin' with persons immersed in service
Determined to show their worth ain't for purchase
I'm still a working man
Takin' laps to get back home
And natural
Take no interest in bad loans
And cast stones
Nothin's lastin' in nature
I feel it tracks with my nature
To trace my past out on paper
And make the path known
I feel the staff of the master
That beats the back of hands
Take my ass kickin's askin'
To read the master plan
I see the masters they're laughin'
With nothin lackin' they have it
My past and habits are active
I’m free as I can stand
And the days have flown yeah
And I’ll make it known yeah
That I’ll make it home yeah
Light glow for the visual
Iso’d and original
I know I'm formidable
Time flies got grown in it
All parts get shown in it
All heart no stone in it
What’s hard can’t flow in it
I’m no cynic
I know systems and circumstance
They curve the current
I’m workin' to make the circuit dance
I surge when mergin' with persons immersed in service
Determined to show their worth ain't for purchase
I'm still a working man
Takin' laps to get back home
And natural
Take no interest in bad loans
And cast stones
Nothin's lastin' in nature
I feel it tracks with my nature
To trace my past out on paper
And make the path known
I feel the staff of the master
That beats the back of hands
Take my ass kickin's askin'
To read the master plan
I see the masters they're laughin'
With nothin lackin' they have it
My past and habits are active
I’m free as I can stand
And the days have flown yeah
And I’ll make it known yeah
That I’ll make it home yeah
01:33
Energy ooh
And it's all new
Set me free and I'll fly
Finally I'm lit
All light
I give my life
All my love
And all my stuff
Is not too much
To come unstuck
And go my way like what
All turned up
It's off the cuff
Think all of us got holes where we can't meet our two halves, it's too bad
Put a yin and yang on my new bag, my shoes match
Won't add what I lack to what I do have
It's new math
I go with it
I know, I know I got one thing
It's flow and flux
Man, I don't live with a halo
Been in touch though
Since mom homemade my playdough
I get a rush then I go rush to show all my friends
That they're all my friends just so that they know
Give em my thoughts intense they say, "Bro if you say so"
We get a laugh then I'm back to my cave to lay low
Live in the lab till I got tracks to show all my friends to show all their friends
It's new cycles
Not spinnin' out
Livin' in cyclones
I begin again
Flip it like vinyl
Been around, I been listenin'
Sounds been hittin' different
My town's small but interestin'
And I know
I'm a citizen, I'm slippin' into my role
It's changin' me, I'm changin' it as I go
Still wild things are whisperin'
Wishin' that it was different
Bigger or more significant
It's mine though
Mine
If it's comin' to me
I let it come and give it time like it's somethin' I need
It'd been a season since the sun had come
I wanted the heat
I know the guru is no one, he's wantin' nothin'
There's nothing that he can't summon
I'm someone
Busy wantin' and runnin' the guru's waitin'
I've run through a hundred phases with hunger in humble places
Been humbled a hundred ways and been given initiations
Been given each inhalation, I take it for inspiration like
Uh
It's not for nothin'
My body knows and it's buzzin'
When Kali goes to her husband
I call in and sit and listen
I listen and get permission
I get it to lift restrictions
Remix it I'm in revision with
Energy, ooh
And it's all new
Set me free, and I'll fly
Finally I'm lit
All light
I give my life
All my love
And it's all new
Set me free and I'll fly
Finally I'm lit
All light
I give my life
All my love
And all my stuff
Is not too much
To come unstuck
And go my way like what
All turned up
It's off the cuff
Think all of us got holes where we can't meet our two halves, it's too bad
Put a yin and yang on my new bag, my shoes match
Won't add what I lack to what I do have
It's new math
I go with it
I know, I know I got one thing
It's flow and flux
Man, I don't live with a halo
Been in touch though
Since mom homemade my playdough
I get a rush then I go rush to show all my friends
That they're all my friends just so that they know
Give em my thoughts intense they say, "Bro if you say so"
We get a laugh then I'm back to my cave to lay low
Live in the lab till I got tracks to show all my friends to show all their friends
It's new cycles
Not spinnin' out
Livin' in cyclones
I begin again
Flip it like vinyl
Been around, I been listenin'
Sounds been hittin' different
My town's small but interestin'
And I know
I'm a citizen, I'm slippin' into my role
It's changin' me, I'm changin' it as I go
Still wild things are whisperin'
Wishin' that it was different
Bigger or more significant
It's mine though
Mine
If it's comin' to me
I let it come and give it time like it's somethin' I need
It'd been a season since the sun had come
I wanted the heat
I know the guru is no one, he's wantin' nothin'
There's nothing that he can't summon
I'm someone
Busy wantin' and runnin' the guru's waitin'
I've run through a hundred phases with hunger in humble places
Been humbled a hundred ways and been given initiations
Been given each inhalation, I take it for inspiration like
Uh
It's not for nothin'
My body knows and it's buzzin'
When Kali goes to her husband
I call in and sit and listen
I listen and get permission
I get it to lift restrictions
Remix it I'm in revision with
Energy, ooh
And it's all new
Set me free, and I'll fly
Finally I'm lit
All light
I give my life
All my love
03:45
Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way
In the halls like a lamb to the slaughter
Underneath the surface softer than a tissue in water
Gotta stay cautious like he stays with his father
Who jokes his only child is his favorite daughter
Awkward
Strength, meek and patient
Meets mean and takes it, teachers see him weak make worried faces
It's a cold hard world, he’s in secret places
So deep it’s hard to speak or to meet their gazes
Child in him just keepin' warm
Seems to wanna keep his body locked in its form
Other boys turn wild men as if reborn
Softee Boy keeps showin' up to be ignored
How long till he learns
How to harden up
And hold his own
When holdin' on is hard enough?
Holin' up in his room, boy's smart enough
To tie himself in a dozen knots
Got him stuck
It's a lot just to sit alone in his zone
His only homie gives him more of what he gets at home
Tells him grow him up some stones, dont b**** and moan
What he’s got nobody seems to wanna get to know
Is it nothin'
If it’s not understandable to some other animal?
Is it nothin'
If it can't find a form and a space to be tangible?
Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way
I'm gunna learn to love the way I am
The way I am
I wish you’d love me the way I am
The way I am
You don't have to understand
The way I am
Could just love me
Love me, love me
Signed the note
Moved out in the thick of summer
Saved enough for just a month, it's got him covered
Got a friend, they got in close, they're almost lovers
Gives him life to go his way and start another
He’ll be runnin' for his livin' in a job or two
It's not freedom, but it's somethin that he got to choose
Got a different set a problems now, they oughta do
He’ll meet the world as he is, like it's somethin new
Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way
Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way
In the halls like a lamb to the slaughter
Underneath the surface softer than a tissue in water
Gotta stay cautious like he stays with his father
Who jokes his only child is his favorite daughter
Awkward
Strength, meek and patient
Meets mean and takes it, teachers see him weak make worried faces
It's a cold hard world, he’s in secret places
So deep it’s hard to speak or to meet their gazes
Child in him just keepin' warm
Seems to wanna keep his body locked in its form
Other boys turn wild men as if reborn
Softee Boy keeps showin' up to be ignored
How long till he learns
How to harden up
And hold his own
When holdin' on is hard enough?
Holin' up in his room, boy's smart enough
To tie himself in a dozen knots
Got him stuck
It's a lot just to sit alone in his zone
His only homie gives him more of what he gets at home
Tells him grow him up some stones, dont b**** and moan
What he’s got nobody seems to wanna get to know
Is it nothin'
If it’s not understandable to some other animal?
Is it nothin'
If it can't find a form and a space to be tangible?
Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way
I'm gunna learn to love the way I am
The way I am
I wish you’d love me the way I am
The way I am
You don't have to understand
The way I am
Could just love me
Love me, love me
Signed the note
Moved out in the thick of summer
Saved enough for just a month, it's got him covered
Got a friend, they got in close, they're almost lovers
Gives him life to go his way and start another
He’ll be runnin' for his livin' in a job or two
It's not freedom, but it's somethin that he got to choose
Got a different set a problems now, they oughta do
He’ll meet the world as he is, like it's somethin new
Softee Boy’s got problems
Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow
Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow
Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way
E
04:33