Rise Up Music Project

It was really hard to come up with lyrics this week. Even with Quantumn continuously bringing the heat with beautiful tracks, I am feeling uninspired. The Chicago February gloom has got me all Fucked up. So in feeling stuck, I went back to what I know best which is to just sing. Sing melody, harmony, skat, hum, play and noodle. The mood is summer bop, with a mostly wordless vocal; the hook about cinderella is well…random but it comes together. Enjoy this short little dittie!

I try to upstand and not bystand,

But I can’t seem to understand the why.

‘Why’ is just a question, and questions have no ground.

And in that rift, it’s hard to sift and take in what I’ve found.

Now I vow not to react, but interact

Action plans ask how.

‘How’ is just a question and questions have no ground

And in that space it’s hard to place where’s up and where is down.

So, I know kindness and blindness both grow root

when they’re given chance to grow.

Growth, it needs direction from connection to the ground.

Up and out, I scream and shout in silence and in sound.

Here I am, I act as I remain.

It snowed again outside today.