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Make Me Water

by Buggy Jive

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They say Jesus walked across the Sea of Galilee. And Matthew and Mark and John Each tell the tale a little differently. But Luke? He skipped it in its entirety. Lord, make me water. Lord, help me to me flow. Maybe Luke was just jealous of Jesus’s abilities. Maybe Luke’s suspicious mind engendered disbelief. Or maybe Luke thought the brotha was Too much showing off His divinity. Lord, make me water. Lord, help me to me flow. So she says: “What you mean, you wanna flow like water? We are all already water.” The Lord, that day, He made the human brain About seventy-five percent water. And the Lord, from the start, He made the human heart About seventy-five percent water. So what I’m saying is: We are all already water. We are all already divine. So open up that bottle. Tonight, let’s just be wine. Lord, make me water. Lord, help me to me flow.
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They say Jesus walked across the Sea of Galilee. And Matthew and Mark and John Each tell the tale a little differently. But Luke? He skipped it in its entirety. Lord, make me water. Lord, help me to me flow. Maybe Luke was just jealous of Jesus’s abilities. Maybe Luke’s suspicious mind engendered disbelief. Or maybe Luke thought the brotha was Too much showing off His divinity. Lord, make me water. Lord, help me to me flow. So she says: “What you mean, you wanna flow like water? We are all already water.” The Lord, that day, He made the human brain About seventy-five percent water. And the Lord, from the start, He made the human heart About seventy-five percent water. So what I’m saying is: We are all already water. We are all already divine. So open up that bottle. Tonight, let’s just be wine. I am falling behind. Y’all got me unstuck in time. Sending me back to the future like I’m some Big black Marty McFly I’m dropping this beat here in the city of my birth The city that lights and hauls the Planet Earth See, we be just around the way from where my family used to went to church At Friendship Baptist, where daddy had his trial sermon and began to serve the Lord Teachers on strike. Momma walkin the picket line. Granddaddy calls this place “Scheneticutt.” Mohawks called it the “Place Beyond the Pines.” And my day care was around the way with Sister Dix at Refreshing Springs. And messing around on Proctor’s stage for graduation Cuz my band picked a song I can’t sing. I am “unstuck in time,” as Vonnegut says. “So it goes.” We chased Sambo’s out this town to catch a Jolly Tiger by the toe. We did it generally and electrically. Like Thomas Alva Edisonally. I see some of y’all rolling your eyes saying: “That’s just being all politically correctically.” But it’s really just about opening yo heart and treating other mother fuckers respectfully So raise your cape! And open your heart like sesame. This town got the best of me Y’all can see how it’s effected me Cuz I will cut you like a vasectomy If your heart ain’t big enough for Schenectady. Lord, make me water. Lord, help me to me flow. Jesus... walking on the water.

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Maxi-single for the new song "Make Me Water."

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released April 22, 2022

All music and stuffs produced and performed by Buggy Jive. Beats courtesy the Loop Loft.

Copyright 2022 by Bryan Paul Thomas and Radical Plastical Music.

The cover art is adapted from the public domain engraving “A Distant View of Schenectady on the Mohawk River” by William Guy Wall, courtesy the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Shout out to a distant Schenectady.

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Buggy Jive Albany, New York

BUGGY JIVE is a soul rock singer-songwriter quietly uploading music from a basement somewhere in Upstate New York.

Equal parts Zeppelin and D’Angelo and Prince and Joni in sound and sensibility, his lyrics often mine the literature of the past to make sense of the present – from Ellison to Morrison to Eliot to Didion.

“Literary Kravitz,” as some say.
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