You need to use vocals To spread a message that is hopeful You need to use vocals To create a point that is focal You need them Like R.E.M.
A message from your heart That goes through your brain It can be called quality art Once it reflects inner pain That runs deep through your voice And your lyrical choice
You don't need scientists with beakers Or super loud speakers You don't need to make a keynote speech Or grab for things that are out of reach You just need a lesson Taught through confession
There are wonderful things done instrumentally But I want to focus on someone instead of me Because thinking through someone else's words Seems more productive Rather than repeating myself so nothing is stirred Which feels somewhat reductive
If you have something to say Speak up If you can't find a way Drink up Music based on emotion instead of thought But be careful to not get mindlessly caught Until you're starving From culturally carving Out anything that is strange Until you have a truncated range Of empathetic understanding That's one way of landing On a lame existence For plain persistence
Art will always reflect life They share the same plight The best way to communicate Is not to ruminate But to speak with your mouth Before your mind goes south End the depressing deflation Through simple human relation
Your gift of pain Becomes my drain My rhythmic refrain From ending this game Please allow me to hear you So I may no longer fear you It doesn't matter if you're not local I'll relate to you through your vocals