Music

Head phones on..... 

Beat creeping through my thoughts, bringing s**t out- I tried to protect so long/

Music moving through lucidly... until...all the pressure gone/

Possesses me therapeutically...then I feel my intellect grow strong/4

Fingertips dancing-- to a west coast song/

Sentences enhancing ---while I watch words fall where they best belong/

Heart synced with the beat, using concepts as pawns/

Can’t express the freedom-- I clinch ---as I sit so calm/8

Rhythm brings wisdom the tempo spawns/

Envision what I've written is living in a prison with no one in it just bars/

I lightweight believe in God, but I ain’t read no psalms/

Can’t look at scriptures, without picturing them written with deceptive palms/ 12

Luring me on quest questioning how s**t could get so wrong/

Wish I lived on melody, and found a beat to rest my pillow on/

Treble has me on another level, neglecting my phone/

I scroll through images that seem limitless, like my venomous tone/16

My girl think she best on her own, till she laying there depressed and alone/

Toxic love is never set in stone, roller coaster bi polar love ready to roam/

In the twilight zone, going- which direction is home/

Microphone has me lightweight stoned, spitting perfection every second I've shown/ 20

Bass has me wasted, while my soul is controlled by a presence unknown/

my records precious as gold, every sentence dense and so cold/

Its impressive how the music is infested into my flesh and my bones/

I hear the hook; I'm cooking verses, like a professional chef bred in Rome/24

protools, I ain’t the best with I've known, but with vocals I'm next on the throne/

Radio is congested with clones, 

Reflections of a generation with no discrepancy between adolescents and grown/

Reviews

[Marianne Rose]

Hey Rico- this is great- the beat is in the words, hard-hitting and steady, I can almost hear your voice reading it. There are some favorite lines I really loved:
"I lightweight believe in God but I ain't read no psalms"
"Wish I lived on melody, and found a beat to rest my pillow on"
"I hear the hook; I'm cooking verses, like a professional chef bred in Rome"

I resonate with the quest . . . And the angst . . .

It really captures the relationship you have with music too and how connected writing is to listening to music . . . It would be interesting to know what you listen to as you write . . .

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This is off the hook good! Massive flow and hip hop kinda vibe...some real quickness! Kick a*s. Enjoyed this. Starz

[Tony Jordan]

I enjoyed this immensely Rico and totally related with it. Music is such an escape for me too and a buffer between me and the 'real-world' and crazy

So many lines in this made my eyebrows raise in a 'wow!' way.
Top notch writing.