Mind Notes Pt.97 'Another Day In Paradise'

Is it all a dream

All the bright lights

Fired up

Rolling with the big time

Or Simmer down

Dealing with the small fry

Living in a paradigm

Only get one time

Time time...

Make time

Make it matter

Starlight

Or anti matter

Level head

Or mad hatter

Another round of tea for sanity

Watch the dreams shatter

Hows about a slice of cake

Trying to get them pockets fatter

Chit chatter

What they chatting bout

Do a U turn

Catch you on the roundabout

Backtrack

Tell them what it's all about

Figure what we figured out

Trying to get the message out

Out out...

Get it out

Or get it in

Everybody trying to win

Living in a world of sin

See the box they put us in

We're all trying to climb the sides

Still trying to wear a smile

Another day in paradise

Hovis

I'm a eat the whole loaf

It's utterly butterly

On the brown toast

This my bread and butter

I'm a make the most

Word to my mother

I'm a take the oath

Oath oath...

Take the oath

Or take the fifth

Busy coming out their lips

Busy out here trying to live

Busy out here trying to give

 And go

And make a go of it

Look at show and tell

You can tell

They make a show of it

Getting it

Get involved

In it for the bigger picture

I ain't with the gold

In it for the realest scriptures

I ain't with the trolls

Reprogram the cortex

We can take control

Take control

Or let slide

Six million ways

To do or die

The dude can not abide

We still occupied

Trying to get qualified

Waiting for the next wave

We still down to ride

PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!

Mind Notes Pt.96 'Still'

Still keeping it purple

Third eye still seeing

Through the keyhole

Still need more love

More people

Keeping it family

Keeping it local

Still check my peripheral

Passwords

Logged in

All Digital

Still chasing the art

That's Physical

Eccentric

They call me unusual

But I'll be right by

Stand on occasion

Never been I

Seize the moment

Man I never been shy

Climb the mountains

Reaching up for the sky

An I'll be right there

Always a circle

Neva been square

Always a inkling

Never unaware

The game ain't fair

But I'm still here

Out here living

Still live for the sunshine

Busy bumble bee

Trying to get mine

Still counting the hours

Need more time

Clock never stops

Keep treading that fine line

Still remember the old days

These days

Everybody on a new wave

No old school

Now it's all new ways

Old dogs

New tricks

Looking for the next craze

Still kicking down doors

Up for the challenge

Always want more

Climb through the window

Dance on the floor

Seize the moment

Grab the bull by the horns

Still playing this game

Far from the accolades

Far from the fame

But close to my heart

Still stand by my name

Still stand by my aim

It's Peace Love

And People Power!

PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!

Mind Notes Pt.95 'Freedom'

I want to be free
You want to be free
We want to be free
We need our FREEDOM

We're all human
But the elite
Want to restrict our movements
Monarchs
Claim they own the Earth
Trying to heard us like cattle
Never respect our worth
But we're all made of stardust
And the Earth formed
Just like all of us
And the rich breathe air
Like all of us
But they couldn't care less
About all of us
Bombs overhead
You can hear the kids screaming
War torn countries
Families are leaving
Just to stay breathing
Run for their lives
Sick to the stomach
Because this world isn't right
So it's resentment
And mistrust
Because the ends don't meet
And it's too much
Fighting for scraps
People lying on their backs
So it's really hard to see
Where the love is at


Who said
A boarder's a border
Imaginary lines
Contain the slaughter
Who said
A bad guy's a bad guy
Soldiers taking lives
Never really knowing why
All these agents of the state
But the state is in a state
And the state is on the take
So how much time
Will it take
How many more deaths
How many more mistakes
Because if you're living it
You're living it
And your fellow man
Doesn't seem to give a...
Because we're fooled by illusion
Illusions of other
Illusions that we've got to win
But it isn't really winning
If we're not all winning
Then the winners really sinning
If we could start from beginning
Reset back to zero
Who'd have a clue what to do
Who'd be the next hero?


PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!

Mind Notes Pt.94 'Chaos'

Chaos

I'm trying to duck the chaos

But my mind is like chaos

And the streets are like chaos

And the man is saying pay us

But the pennies ain't stretching

Hand to mouth

Mouth to hand

Put the work in

Listen my bredren

I'll spin you a yarn

I've been around the block

And I know whaa gwaan

From Asia

To Europe

Usa

Caribbean

Black Irish Man

In London England

Chaos

Make sense of the chaos

Turn it into logic

On some organised chaos

Never take a day off

Because the planet won't wait

The cycle spins round

But it's never too late

To create

Innovate

With some conscious debate

Freedom of thought

Let our minds elevate

Never procrastinate

Because the clock ain't got time

12 numbers on the face

They're spinning on your mind

It's chaos

Chaos

I'm seeing too much chaos

Hearing too much chaos

Drowning in this chaos

Looking for the payoff

But the pot of gold's missing

Throwing old pennies in the well

Still wishing 

Wheeling dealing

Big tings' a gwaan

We think and we move

Through the calm and the storm

By any means

People are trying to eat

So we're careful

Where we're stepping

When we're stepping

Through the street

Chaos

Loosing lives to this chaos

Some blind to this chaos

Others wise to this chaos

We can rise from this chaos 

Like a phoenix from the flames

Or fall like Icarus

The lessons are the same

Everybody's got a name

Everybody's got a voice

Everyone should have a chance

Everyone should have a choice

In the middle of this chaos

Can't loose your head

In reality

It's what gets done

Not said

That's chaos

PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!

Mind Notes Pt.93 'Pound Signs'

They say the boy is back
But I been here
Pen and pad
Trying to form a plan
And be a good man
Busy on my runnings
On the low p
I overstand
It's crooked on the cobbles
You could get caught
Bang Bang
Hasta la vista
See you in the ether
Pray rocks move like easter
And rebirth will greet ya'
Agnostic
Believer
Atheist
Or preacher
Death's door's a creeper
Knocking from grim reaper
Self medicating
Pacifying minds
Hard liquor
Hot smoke
White lines
Live the fast life fast
And you could die twice
You'll be dying now
And dying in the afterlife
Answer right
And listen when the power's talking
But the power's all corrupt
So it's kind of awkward
Getting slaughtered
Little lambs on the front line
Stop getting it twisted
We're bigger than these pound signs

Weak meek minds
Getting sucked in daily
Business as usual
Excuse you
Pay me
People real shady
And the tightrope's shaking
Vultures circle
Underneath the snakes waiting
Procrastination
The cruisers loose
I can't deal with sea sickness
So I'm quick in my shoes
Speak slick on these grooves
Certain people say i'm gifted
I say I'm just me
But love is always on my wish list
You could print this
Pass it out in bold type
Let my people know
We only live this one life
You only got this one try
Try Hard
Get it right
But it's murderation
Trying to see it through another night
So I'm giving thanks
For every little drop I get
For all my people getting nothing
I can't forget
Forget last regrets
I put it on the line now
Get up
Stand up
This is our time now

PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!

Mind Notes Pt.92 'Never Expected'

Never expected to say dis

They never expected us 

On their play list

Classical magical

Music makers

Go to town on the beats

Movers an shakers

Doing this since ages

 Dungarees

And bunk beds 

Clocking all the changes

Rug rats

With cassette tapes

Going places

Wonder when it's our day

Laughing at the races

But never got to wear

Those smug faces

And never got to go

To fancy places

Never seen fifty thousand 

When I'm on them stages

But I've been around the world an back

And trust me man 

It's basic

None of that stuff

Don't matter man

It's basic

All of that stuff

Is just fake

Man face it

Trying to make it all about the paper

Make us chase it

But we be sticking to the art

Bring it back to basics

Never needed 

Critics to play this

We cut a demo

And skank

We don't business

We work a job

And pay the rent

Handle our business

So when we jump on the tracks 

Feels like it's Christmas

The industry

Straight missed us

No mansions out in the hills

Mrs an mistress

No fake friends 

Hangers on

Trying use us

It's all air

Until they stuck

Then they need us

NAH!

We never let 

The greed lead us

Never stuck on the thirst

We drink litres 

Never stuck on the spot

Statues & creepers 

JA bloodlines

Tearing up metres

Never out on a hype 

We stay focused

Can't speak our names

They don't know us

Let the music do the talking

You could quote us

Keep them tracks magical

We on that hocus-pocus

voilà

Music always was my calling

I never really had a choice

I was born in

Records spinning late night

Again in morning

I never knew my turn would come

Now I'm all in

I'm not on the payroll 

But it's minor

Doing what I love

Always got my vibe up

Because it's only a few

Making a killing

The rest of us focus on the tracks

Still winning

I can let my mind run freely

Flashbacks to old school

MC Steele

I still remember

 When I wrote my first rhyme 

Properly

Just came naturally

All made sense to me

All of those days

Seem dreams

My history

All of those raps

Were the start

My legacy

Started on the path

With the bars

My journey

And decades later

I'm still RockSteady

I always knew 

I could do this

Never needed to boast

Or try prove it

But now the games illiterate

Straight stupid

But I'm still in love with the music

Thank cupid

Never play 

Follow the leader

I'm my own student

My own teacher

My own mediator 

No in-betweeners

Every word I speak is me

Straight out the speakers

Keep eating the beats

We stay hungry

Basslines obese

Stay pumping

Time is never idle

We're always up to something

Always full of beans 

When the beat drop

Bumping

Never be

The next big thing

But I'm in it for the love of the music

Let me sing

In it for the love of the sport

It my thing

So it's on to the next one

Let the beat ring

Classic!

PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!