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Goes to College

by G'Ra

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1.
Cement Sneakers 03:37
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Cement Sneakers Written and composed by G’Ra Asim Additional lyrics by Chris Craver Add it up, count it down And find that I’m nonplussed Maybe this time around Is make or break or bust And in this part of town There’s no one I can trust Because you’re nowhere to be found There’s just the memory of us If this is farewell Then what -pray tell- Did you expect to gain? Because all of your sins Are means to your ends When fair-weather friends Are fair game I won’t sink or swim As according to your whims When this chorus starts to shore us We’ll be beached on bitter ends My friend I guess it all depends If this horoscope’s not for us Hope I never see your face again I know that you thought I wouldn’t let you go this time You’ve had no such luck Steadying your slow decline
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Critical Sass 02:17
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Critical Sass Written and composed by G’Ra Asim When day expires I race home on cold streets My thoughts and tires Keep pace to a dead heat After hours of putting on airs I just need a little room to breathe So tonight My bike and Rockville Pike We’re doing what we like And this moment is the only time that I will feel alive So take me for a ride We’ll take it all in stride The streetlights as our guide My bike and Rockville Pike It’s owed to the road when it all gets easier We know it’s owed to the road when it all gets easier Terrified of putting on airs I just need a little room to breathe So tonight My bike and Rockville Pike We’re doing what we like And this moment is the only time that I will feel alive So take me for a ride We’ll take it all in stride The streetlights as our guide My bike and Rockville Pike
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Femaelstrom 03:18
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Femaelstrom Written and composed by G'Ra Asim I swallow down the hollow sound That covers up your cracks; The severed line from heart to spine To sputtering synapse A shortened fuse that's seldom used For too much more than show I'm worn out like the welcome you've Exhausted when you go If I could be indifferent to you -If that was something I could do- I'd turn it around And try living down All of the things you put me through Oh, if I could strut in your stilettos Alternate rose petals I would test your mettle For taking the abuse that you've given to me When ya gonna play fair, pipe dream? Tell me what you're all about But beware, ice queen: Some day I'm going to thaw you out Baby, we're just different speeds Spare me all the sympathy 'Cause you been running through my mind And at best I jog your memory If it were me, indifferent to you If there was something I could do To turn it around And try living down All of things you put me through...
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Can't Hardly Graduate 02:56
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Can’t Hardly Graduate Written and composed by G’Ra Asim I should’ve known I was headed for Another year of uncertainty That all my musings and metaphors Only hide the absurdity: Caps in air won’t be this year for me I don’t know what you said it for It’s not a state of emergency If the rain comes, let it pour ‘Cause not a thing could burden me What’s it pay that they all say It’s so “do or die” No, don’t ask why I knew I’d never get by If it wasn’t for: At the shows where throwing ‘bows And glancing blows is how it goes I suppose that no one knows Just what should keep us on our toes When the end is near Let’s hear three cheers For graduating If you’ve been waiting Lifetimes for this Sing this chorus Life goes on When you’re withdrawn And I’m sincere: I haven’t been to class all year But I’m not going to sink I’ve decided to think With my own mind On my own time And I’m a credit short But I won’t let it abort My ambition Or my mission
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Greater Than the Sum of My Farts 02:17
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Scatology/Psychology Written and composed by G’Ra Asim Self-deprecation Or defecation? I’m no stranger to this Odd sensation A chamber pot Is what I’m not It’s somewhat awkward. (Somewhat awkwardly) I keep fucking shitting on me I keep fucking shitting on me Ebony and irony know They cover me entirely so If you see through the smile and the smoke Which of us is in on the joke? I never seem to duck these punchlines On the scene on my own self-hate crimes I took it on the chin ‘til I broke And wondered who was in on the joke And it’s hardly worth this song for a cynic ‘Cause beneath the surface it’s wrong, or is it… Self-deprecation or defecation? I’m no stranger to this odd sensation A chamber pot is what I’m not It’s somewhat awkward; (Somewhat awkwardly) I keep fucking shitting on me I keep fucking shitting on me Yeah And it’s hardly worth this song for a cynic ‘Cause beneath the surface it’s wrong…or is it?
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Sleep Cute 02:15
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Sleep Cute Written and composed by G’Ra Asim You got the call On your cellular Began to stall I could tell you were In the midst Of an argument I got the gist I was the target All I gain Is all I forfeit Within the reign Of your orbit We may revolve Around his apathy It won’t absolve Me from your gravity The sun’s starting to show Through the hole in your window And I know you’ll let me go Before he gets back home He gets back home when The sun’s starting to show And it won’t look out below For the strangest bedfellows I know I’m on my own I’m on my own again In the light of day Do you find that sweet nothings from the night before Are the crimes that pay They’re amounting to something that we can’t ignore
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Up the Monks 02:53
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Up the Monks Written and composed by G’Ra Asim Between me and you It’s like a drug Something of a genie Ay, there’s the rub Your lamp and three wishes Is none of my business I was tempted once but it’s better to save my breath And be quick to parry The dull ordinary Future that you want ‘cause I’m better off by myself I had a notion I could dream My way out of this machine But perhaps it’s just me: I see I’m at the mercy Of all of the things that I swore I’d never be It’s easy To covet a perfect fit The clichés Tell you it’s requisite Your halfhearted vouches For lives spent on couches Aptly fit the bill for a fallacy well instilled The show on your marquee That looms ever darkly Soon enough is going to be a prophecy unfulfilled I had a notion I could dream My way out of this machine But perhaps it’s just me: I see I’m at the mercy Of all of the things that I swore I’d never be There’s a lot to lose In your role play Leaving our virtues To the old days We can pick and choose Find our own way Don’t worry We won’t go quietly I’ll keep this notion I could dream My way out of this machine ‘Cause it’s just not me: I see that ordinary Is one thing I don’t think that I could ever be
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Proverbs for the Plastered 04:05
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Proverbs for the Plastered (for Patrick Cronin) Written and composed by G’Ra Asim Morning after vernacular on the tip of my tongue ‘Cause it’s so spectacular to be so well hung And to know I’ll get back to her While the night is still young But the chance I’ll make mistakes Is a chance I’ll have to take Will it change in the end, though? It’s a steady crescendo So be cool, keep pace, make haste This bittersweet acquired taste Is all that’s left of you and me And maybe we’re all better off that way And the older my shoulder gets The colder the chips That I gamble with bolder lips And a holster of quips Fallen soldiers will smolder Ailing relationships And my gift of gab’s a curse But I could have it worse Is it the first sip that loosens these lips Or the dregs of the drink that begs you to think It’s for kicks you’re turning these tricks When the keg’s in the sink you edge to the brink Of reason and back again Will it change in the end, though? It’s a steady crescendo So be cool, keep pace, make haste This bittersweet acquired taste Is all that’s left of you and me And maybe we’re all better off that way When the sun goes down It’s bottoms up Until she’s easy on the eyes But so hard on my luck

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released March 15, 2013

All songs written and composed by G'Ra Asim
Vocals and guitars by G'Ra
Drums by Brendan Bessel
Bass and additional guitars by various former A Spike Lee Joint members: Chris Craver, Rory Raley, Matthew Lyon and Frederick Ashworth
Engineered by Joseph Mitra (mostly) and Chad Richman (tracks 1, 3 and 8)

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G'Ra Boston, Massachusetts

Goes to College is a compilation of songs I wrote, recorded and performed in the Washington, DC area as A Spike Lee Joint, until this happened: goo.gl/MTgdB

Now I play in Back Talk , which you should totally check out! backtalkma.bandcamp ... more

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