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This Is Not a Pipe (For René Magritte)

from The Buggy Jive Mixtape by Buggy Jive

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lyrics

"Les enfants qui applaudissent sur l'un ne vont pas au paradis."

This is not a pipe
This is not a pipe
This is not a right
This is not a pipe

This is not right
This is not wrong
This is not a pipe
This is not a song

"This is weird."

This is not a pipe
This is not crack
This is not white
This is not black

This ain't yo ass
This ain't yo face
This is not about class
This is not about race

"Why is it always about race with you people?"

Because it is.
Now try these shoes on.
Big feet.

This ain't no Mardi Gras
Or San Francisco
This ain't no party, y'all
This ain't no disco

This ain't jazz
This ain't the blues
This ain't the network
This ain't the news

"And the moon turns to blood."

This ain't no painting
Ain't no Matisse
Ain't no Picasso
Ain't no Magritte

This is the treachery.
Of images.
Of ideas.
Of sound.

This is the treachery
Of humanity.
Of democracy.
Of mediocrity.

This is the treachery.
Of images.
Of ideas.
Of sound.
Of song.
Of harmony.
Of the P-bass.
Of this phat beat.
Of the guitar.
Of the One.
Of the One.
Of the One.

La la la la la la la la la.

"Don't you dare clap on the one."

"The One is not for clapping, the One is where yo' ass goes."

"Stop clapping on the One! Don't make me stop this song."

La la la la la la la la la.

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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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