| The Roots – The Seed (2.0) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't expect anyone to believe me, but I believe I wrote this song, well the core anyway. If you want to derive any coherent message from the original intent of the song, it is important to distinguish between the two speakers. Black Thought authored all the words he speaks and no more, his words add force to the overarching force of the song as they suggest various takes on the possible meaning offered by the core. Cody Chestnut's voice is the main substance of the song (which I have referred to as the core). I don't wish to seem arrogant, if anything Black Thought is much more talented, its just that 'the core' was plainly fully constructed before he devised his parts. Although I am fairly certain about what thoughts I am trying to convey, I keep subjects vague and place poetical force in conceptual relations, because I like the organic wealth of meaning this form embodies. Black Thought's take is in many ways far more beautiful than my own original thoughts for my words, I wont talk much about what his words suggest, except I did not anticipate an interpretation in which 'the lover' was a genre of music, as I had conceived of that aspect being quite literal. Now, this was about the first song I had ever written, I was quite young (15), very interested in politics and philosophy and theology, I was quite radical, and I think I really overreached, there is too much scattered substance. The interpretation: 'I don't ask for much, and I don't whine if I don't get my way'- This denotes the peace an individual has made with society, how one compromises and settles, the resounding point I'm making in mentioning this is that we all do it to some extent, and I want people to question the impact this has on life. 'fertilize another behind my lover's back'- Is perhaps the most profound example of how one could break social conventions in furthering perhaps our highest real interests; this is an example of how simply trying to live a constructed meaning for one's life would lead one to secrecy. 'I'm keeping my secrets mine'- I find secrecy an interesting topic, if our society is going to necessitate it then it must be allowed, i.e. not illegal. Why in our personal lives, perhaps the most important sphere of human interaction, do we permit fraud (lying or secrecy)? Well, the answer is given above: so many constructed life meanings don't mesh with society. The subtle implication is that we require some kind of revolution. "And I don't scream, and kick, when his shit don't fall in my hands, man 'cause I know how to steal"- This is subtle prod (in hindsight much too subtle for Americans) toward class consciousness. 'I lick the opposition cause she don't take no pill'- I don't know if its just a difference in word usage, but "lick" means defeat in this context, not to literally lick. This is referring to the culture of death in the west, the social forces that oppose the production of human life (economic forces i.e. full time employment woman are required to engage in). "I push my seed somewhere deep in her chest I push it naked 'cause I've takin my test"- This is really the weakest part of the song, it means very little, chest rhymes with test... I needed a third stanza (not including the chorus/hook thing). Test is meant to be connotative of how sex and reproduction in this guys constructed meaning is his 'test in life', but you see the format of the song is that I have to give a literal line, forcing my to write "I've" rather than the intended "I'm", I thought it would be okay, because people do relate things like HIV tests to sex (they do a lot more where I'm from (South Africa), anyway you see, tests are done prior to sex, but here I wanted the sex to be seen as the test itself, so not great product, but as I said, this was pretty much the first song I had written. 'Rock'nRoll"- is a metaphor for life and vibrancy. "dropped"- is metaphorical for been given birth to, and with poetical licence, when something living is dropped its motion could resemble rocking and rolling... PS: The lyrics should read "And I don't scream, and kick, when his shit don't fall in my hands, man Cause I know how to steal" |
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