A Gust Inside the God - Youngblood Brass Band

You have a ball

You set alight

You throw it up

You don’t look…

Like what?

A trophy next to me

An analog, a metaphor, a synecdoche

An argument for a snap vasectomy

A median that means your hands have atrophied

Immediate discourse

I mediate six swords

A media trick horse

In medias res, dorks

«Drop right here when you’re ready to bounce

Fifteen years, Youngblood, get down»

Stay out of sight from the stars and critics

I’ve evaded the shit-hitting, fans are with it

Guard the color well -- yep, flags, get it?

I’m gonna set it off, you go home and shed it

I heard you twice the first time you said it

Keep rhymes embedded

Each guy a veteran pro at murdering shows

Burgers and bros

Your sentences blow

My sentences?

Whoa

A death: one on my bed for breakfast

My best hope: make it hot and forget this

Make good on a promise to rep this

Make fire by sparking a set list

Have a ball, set a light, throw it up, don’t look, do work

Just keep walking

Cause it’s all just a night in a club in a book

Truth hurts

Please stop talking

You have a ball

You set alight

You throw it up

You don’t look…

At the city with the most love for brass bands:

NOLA, the Crescent, where cats are playing

Tambourine like a Mardi Gras Indian

Need a beat?

Uncle Lionel, that’s the man!

Bring the heat on a motherfucking frying pan

Like the world commanded you to hit this here

Hoe blade, cowbell, bottle of beer

All signs of work turned to fire tonight

The kind of symphonies America doesn’t like

Who cares, they got a word no one else can write

And why does all our good work got to come out of strife?

The baddest kid you’ll never hear is in New Orleans for life

So here’s a simile, love:

I’m like a mic with a cord running from Wisconsin to the 6th Ward

Where there’s a drummer in a grave marked «Shavers»

And I bet he’s still wearing a Hot 8 shirt

The earth’s got a funny kind of paydirt

Yo Dinerral, plug me in, I gotta say words

Because I missed the funeral and the parade, sir

And I’m sorry your memorial’s a lame verse, but

Have a ball, set a light, throw it up, don’t look, do work

Just keep walking

Cause it’s all just a night in a club in a book

Truth hurts

Please stop talking

You have a ball

You set alight

You throw it up

You don’t look…

You have a ball

You set alight

You throw it up

You don’t look

You have a ball

You set alight

You throw it up

You don’t look

You have a ball

You set alight

You throw it up

You don’t look

You have a ball

You set alight

You throw it up

You don’t look…

You don’t look…