Text Language (Renewable Energy)
By Joy Lynn Clark
9/15/2014
Text Language by Dazee Dizzle
This Saturday past, I attended a performance by Seun Kuti and Egypt 8 at the Pritzker Auditorium outdoors in Chicago. It is part of the World Music festival sponsored by the City of Chicago. Usually, I am somewhere a distance away in the grass however, this day I was lucky enough to get seating in the third row. It was a big band. There must have been 12 people onstage. The rhythms were hypnotic and I got a great view of everything. The background singers were in traditional dress and they were also great dancers. Watching the dancers reminded me of the fine line. Bootyshaking. On southside of Chicago we have all sorts of names for it but, (my mom said her generation called it the dog) seeing them reminded me of why we dance that way. To tell the truth, it is something I am missing. It seems to be very sexualized here in a way that I didn’t get from Egypt 8’s dancers. In fact, I wanted to get up and shake it myself.
Anyhow, they got to a song about Power. To be honest, I did not catch all of the lyrics but I was hearing about the government. That’s not to deny the lyrics but, I was stressed out about why I couldn’t put up the fist.
Where I am from it is called the, “Black Fist”. I looked around and others were unable to do it too. Some did though. As I started to lose grasp of the lyrics for thinking about this too hard, someone put up two fists and I was instantly relieved. I am again able to focus on the song and participate.
I put up my two fists and I too thought about Power. Check out my ISIS Spacejet Terrorist Transmission: Text Language.
Lyrics form the recording of Text Language
By Joy Lynn Clark
Im T X T ing S M S
And you aint getting my messeges
Wanna be connected like the world wide web
Gotta parse whats in my head
Between what’s said
Im missing the point
Cause I’m so sharp
Everytime I think it ends
It just restarts
Lets pick some roles
And play some parts
I don’t get this cipher
And I wanna roll out
Cause I Already told you what I’m all about
You seem to be lost
What you finding out?
Im an open book
Or maybe just a wave
I guess I close it
But it’s truth I gave
Yes Im guessing
I don’t know your question
My math don’t question
Now think on that
It could be a conversation
it could be a rap
it could be in words
or in pictures like a map
This is why
you should buy this
and pass it along
in your messages
In the air
With frequency
Everwhere
like you T X T
Pass it along
Electronically
Pick it up
Sonically
In the air with frequency
Everywhere
Like you T X T
Giving information
I thought we knew
Cause giving information
Is what I do
Throw me a couple problems
Add it up for you
Try to close the door
But I float right through
Better yet appear
Where I want to
I’m new clear
I see-through
Wanna call me naked
Cause I’m taking off
But this is flight
I’m aloft
I’m in the atmosphere
And way beyond
Puncture the membrane
With just a song
I can be nuclear
If you like
And enter the stratosphere
Without a strike
I am active no fallout
I rock heavy metal
There’s no doubt
And there is no waste
Power everywhere
And watch the lames displace
This is why
you should buy this
and pass it along
in your messages
In the air
With frequency
Everwhere
like you T X T
Pass it along
Electronically
Pick it up
Sonically
In the air with frequency
Everywhere
Like you T X T
Derive the answer I’m factoring
Get it you massively
move neither in the aggressive nor passively
I am power I am dynamic
I am fire heat for the planet
Take it for granted
And if you can’t stand it
I’ll give you an upgrade
In the spot that I landed
Invasive species
Go back where they belong
Now everyone is asking
Why I take so long?
This is why
you should buy this
and pass it along
in your messages
In the air
With frequency
Everwhere
like you T X T
Pass it along
Electronically
Pick it up
Sonically
In the air with frequency
Everywhere
Like you T X T
Just so you know I got that dro
In the mountains high
And the valley low
Watch me coast I’m a river
And I lay flat
Dam, you can’t hold me back
Make you move feel the energy
Power the grid electrically
In the tower is where the work be
need a few watts
You should get wit me
Or I can be wind
And I get it in
make you rotate
Gyrate and I send The power to you
Straightaway
or I can switch it up On a sunny day
put it on my plate wont reflect away
send it in a wave so you get what I say
got so many styles how I switch it up
teach you the language now fill your cup
This is why
you should buy this
and pass it along
in your messages
In the air
With frequency
Everwhere
like you T X T
Pass it along
Electronically
Pick it up
Sonically
In the air with frequency
Everywhere
Like you T X T
