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Black Spaces (For Ava Duvernay)

from The Buggy Jive Mixtape by Buggy Jive

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Black faces in black spaces, in the dailies they reflect no light.
French money man is begging her to show their eyes.
Black faces in black spaces, on the daily, darkness whisperers.
French money asking: “Ou sont les yeux?"

She ain't trying to be that girl.
Don't walk her on with “Glory".
She ain't trying to save the world.
It’s enough to tell a story.

Black faces in white spaces, collect art with your aunt and absorb the light.
Black faces in white spaces, daddy’s little spies.
Black panic, white panic, confessor black, tesseract, daddy’s little girl
Hop from planet to planet, she gonna save the world.

Money talks, so you keep talking.
You still broke but you keep talking.
It’s your masterstroke that you keep talking.
Cuz they think they woke but they sleepwalking.

A black girl is gonna save the world.

Black faces in black spaces
It's a jail, it’s a cell
It's the road to Hell
Paved with good intentions
It’s the hull of a ship
It’s a footstep, it’s a bridge
Will you sink, can you swim
Whozit Whaztit and Which
Fight a might, make a right
Paint with celluloid and light
It’s the promise of life
It's the promise of life
She was raised on the promises of life
It’s the promise of life
In your heart, in your heart
It’s the waters of a march.

Keep on tryin to tell our story
Wild nights are your glory.

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from The Buggy Jive Mixtape, released May 11, 2018

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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. ... more

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