Equations

from Sink Or Swim by Justjoey

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lyrics

Conversation lately been a bummer
Every dialogue spawn from automated guzzlers
Sunken eyes darkened by a steady stream of these increasing numbers which would measure time I spent laying awake under the covers

Forty of the same guy fighting for one lover
trotting out of living quarters built by droids and cookie cutters
Such a lovely way to start a summer
I am yawning like Chewbacca
Got a sweat going like wookie butter

Leer like a deified cat from in back of a line
Squinting eyes trying to focus on the mix and match
Looking like they got something to ask
so smiling I’m nodding while I’m stepping to the task

“What’s that?”
Finger limp barely extended to an image of a coffee with some milk in it
Picture perfect silkiness
Dryly I describe word for word how it’s written
Laziness is a proprietor of business

Lovably dumb is why I’m really not a threat
The differences between me and a chimpanzee is found in two percent
I’m not concerned about demanding your respect
I’m here to help a friend
and collect a couple checks

And pave a future
Learn enough to tutor
Keep my brain poetic before it become computer
Learn how much I take before I break
Learn to love myself and the birds and the bees and snakes

I don’t care about appearing most menacing
I’m building ecosystems not just a list of enemies
I’m Justjoey - nothing more and nothing less of me
The people in my toy story always got a friend in me

Mirror the energy that other people send to me
Jerks get kicked to the curb eventually
No person on the earth can escape it:
The universe proceeds
Simply balancing equations

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from Sink Or Swim, released May 8, 2020

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Justjoey San Jose, California

psychedelic bops from a composer/rapper making monuments out of a tiny little life.

also in Lucid Logic w/ ILLOGIC & Modern Language with Museum and formerly known as Lucid Optics.

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