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Heartbeat on the Five

from I Don't Understand How the World Works by Buggy Jive

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"Like Shakespeare this clock drops beats in iambic pentameter."

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Five four
Rule of five five
Until five four
Less alive

Two more
To five four
Don't need to be here
No more

I got 5 on it.
Heartbeat on the 5.

Marking time to hit the rule of five.
Start the clock at the five four on the two four if we still alive.
Tickety tickety rickety rickety tickety tock.
Got me out here marking time with a broke ass clock.
If I start cryin might not be able to stop.
Wasting my time, dropping extra beats.
George say: "It sound like it got a 5 on it to me."
Bad clock got me out here marking time with heart beats instead.
Counting heartbeats and sheep to distract from the dread.
Amateur panderer workin' the system from within the designated parameters.
Not for lack of thinking about it, but I never could be no philanderer.
Don't got no band cuz I never wanted to be no manager.
Polishing turds, eyes and ears of this institution like a Breakfast Club janitor.
High yellow Othello haply still too black to roll with them chamberers.
Like Shakespeare this clock drops beats in iambic pentameter

Hurry up please it's time.

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from I Don't Understand How the World Works, released January 14, 2022

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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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