[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:21.80]I'm in a jazz club, I hear the music play [00:24.43]I feel the saxophone notes but I just stare at his face [00:27.22]And I reflect upon his fluid form of movements [00:29.53]His use of the best band comprised of a couple students, my goodness! [00:32.72]I mean talent wise his skill was incomparable [00:35.05]To anything that I've seen so I just ponder and watch [00:38.02]I just look on and really didn't want it to stop tracks that he laid [00:41.46]paid for the train in my thoughts I patiently wait [00:43.70]thinking bout this man and his past Did he rock a million shows [00:46.87]make a hundred thousand in cash With a few platinum plaques [00:50.05]at his pad outside of reno Or did he fall deep inside of a new casino [00:53.69]These are questions that I pose when I ponder On the chance of me [00:56.59]like 20 years down the road when I am half of me [00:59.52]Will I fall under the same fate or direction? [01:02.05]Lessons that I've learned when I burn through my conceptions [01:04.47]Its just a cold night, im chilling in my city [01:07.41]I got the whole night, nobodies gonna get me [01:10.19]I hear the key notes dancing and I know it [01:12.52]Welcome to the mind of a jazz city poet [01:15.45]Its just a cold night, im chilling in my city [01:18.19]I got the whole night, nobodies gonna get me [01:20.92]I hear the key notes dancing and I know it [01:23.25]Welcome to the mind of a jazz city poet [01:26.22]I was told that if you're blessed with a gift the most selfish [01:29.36]Thing you could do is pretend that it didn't exist [01:31.50]So I take drums that hit, with a jazzy riff when I spit [01:33.87]My moms flipped her script when I told her about my gigs but its cool, [01:37.41]she knew that I was driven at twenty two [01:39.23]now its coming full circle, kicking it back to you [01:41.96]Graduated school with a new point of a vengeance [01:44.70]Farewell to my fears I will stay clear of your venom [01:47.68]Stumbled on the serum, chillin with nothing left [01:50.11]Feelings in my chest like I'm ripping it through a vest [01:52.70]And im taking it to the next step, kill the regret [01:55.28]Any mistakes that I made is now a part of my past [01:57.99]Im taking it home, can't stop, leave it alone [02:00.68]Part of myself yells to keep keeping it going [02:03.36]The lights dim down again the Saxophone starts to play [02:06.04]I start to picture everything, I wish I could say [02:08.81]Its just a cold night, im chilling in my city [02:11.96]I got the whole night, nobodies gonna get me [02:14.63]I hear the key notes dancing and I know it [02:16.91]Welcome to the mind of a jazz city poet [02:19.69]Its just a cold night, im chilling in my city [02:22.63]I got the whole night, nobodies gonna get me [02:25.36]I hear the key notes dancing and I know it [02:27.72]Welcome to the mind of a jazz city poet [02:30.30]I lounge back while I relapse and I might go [02:33.15]The whole track starts to relax and I write slow [02:36.14]Back to the tempo pondering music [02:38.31]When I would think about the future with songs [02:40.63]That'll get me through it I'm good [02:42.36]deal it if I'm misunderstood [02:44.13]Hope my future children see, take it and they achieve [02:47.01]Poppa Followed Christ, poppa was in love [02:49.67]Poppa had dreams but Poppa will never be [02:52.35]A puppet used to poison the passionate plus irrelevant [02:55.03]Portraits on a beat, taking a part of me [02:57.67]I rather take a seat in a room full of my heroes [03:00.40]Their hair turning grey, wearing their cowl and cape [03:03.11]I just listen, taking mental notes within my vision [03:05.64]The longer conversation im pondering my condition [03:08.42]As a writer, the lights start to flicker on its brighter [03:11.10]As passion starts to leave I make a promise to write her [03:14.02]Its just a cold night, im chilling in my city [03:16.81]I got the whole night, nobodies gonna get me [03:19.59]I hear the key notes dancing and I know it [03:22.01]Welcome to the mind of a jazz city poetIts just a cold night, im chilling in my city [03:28.02]I got the whole night, nobodies gonna get me [03:30.55]I hear the key notes dancing and I know it [03:32.78]Welcome to the mind of a jazz city poet