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Let the Words Reveal Themselves

from The Ghost of Alexander by Buggy Jive

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Not a hard and fast rule, but generally: if I don't start with a musical foundation, the whole song suffers. Put that cool lyric or concept in a drawer until the right chords and melody come along. Don't force

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Oh no!

Please do not tell me you started writing your song with the words first.
You betta tuck them words away and forget 'em until a proper groove comes.
You betta tuck them words away and forget 'em or I will put you in a world of hurt.

If you don’t start with the music, the song could go to hell.
So put first things first, let's do this.
Let the words reveal themselves.

La la la.

You wouldn't drop a new dance move and come up with the beat last.
You wouldn't choreograph into thin air and just be waitin for the groove to come.
If you're doing it right then writing the words is just like shaking your ass.

If you don’t start with the music, the song could go to hell.
So put first things first, let's do this, baby. Let the words reveal themselves.

La la la.

Choreograph. And dance. And that ass.

If you don’t start with the music, the song could go to hell.
So put first things first, let's do this, baby. Let the words reveal themselves.

Shuck and jiving. Buggy jiving.

The rules I live my life by through the failures and successes
It is rules like this I write by, but baby rules don't sell no records.
As we wallow in our wretchedness we all still dare to dream
I say rules don't sell no records, baby rules don't flow into streams

So I'mma just scream to be free.

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from The Ghost of Alexander, released December 1, 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.
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