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Tiptoes.
I love to see you on your tiptoes.
Tiptoes.
I love to see you on your tiptoes.
You afraid to move?
I love to watch ya try to get your groove.
You afraid to speak?
It turns me on, makes my knees weak.

Now that you're aware
You can never be too careful
You can never be too scared — ha ha ha

This is how it's always been for me.

Tiptoes.
I love to see you on your tiptoes.
Jim Crow.
Look atchya tryna to ‘splain a shit show.
Lemme see ya dance.
Shake that splainin ass in ya hot pants.
Wanna take it higher?
Don't look now but your pants on fire.
You need a polygraph?
Don't look now cuz I'mma hafta laugh.

Let me tell you bout the newly woke noisemakers
Loving all the sounds but they don't know the song
Let me tell you bout the newly woke noisemakers
Loving all the lyrics but they won’t sing along.

Now that you're aware
You can never be too careful
You can never be too scared — ha ha ha

This is how it's always been for me.

THE MAN: Yes, Buggy, so glad I got you on the line. We were having some, difficulty regarding that third paragraph. We can say "Negro," in this instance, right? I mean, it's clearly, clearly being used as a quote. And of course we have the best intentions here: we're quoting MLK, after all, and everyone knows that he's the greatest Negro of all time, so I don't think it should be a problem. So please validate my thinking here; otherwise it will be very uncomfortable and awkward between us going forward, but mostly, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, mostly we just want to get this right, because as you well know… When in the Course of [REDACTED] events, it becomes necessary for [REDACTED] to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to blah blah blah blah the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of [REDACTED] requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Because as you well know… We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [REDACTED] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness blah blah blah whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the [REDACTED] to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Their safety and happiness.

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from You Won't Like the Answer, released May 11, 2021

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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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