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Sway (For you, nyc & Brooklyn)

from the Marketplace (mixtape) by Amani O+

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back when i was chasing behind young men and missing myself, wanting so badly to be picked and ended up entangled up in a fun, messy, emotionally laborious situationship with a fella from Albany who moved to the BX ... honey 🍯 i was sprung! September 2014

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Years later I leave your home and hop on the subway with my shades on with my hoe bath with my headphones
Home to a mother
Sore with remembrance in all the right places
Satisfied
Look. Away. from the homeless man
Avoid eye contact
Stare only when there's enough distance
(Thoughts of how prob Lematic
This is
Drowned out by) Hopes he doesn't come back
Pretty blonde girl in the distance
With brown eyes and brown skin
My metaphors remind me that I don't know shit about shit *
I'm just here like everyone else
Broadcasting the revolution LIVE
Is he blind
Is he faking
Why am I not blind?
Am I blind?
What's sight anyway?
Air drum solo in between 86th street and a strangers bed
That it's becoming too easy to wake up in
To dance with
Ice skating on ah ah
Sea of our feelings and all these things I used to want to be for you
What do I mean to you?
Swaying
In between lover and friend
Homies
That sweat and kiss in the dark
Talk to me
Swaying
In between 59th and destiny
And memories that get tangled and left in sheets
Home bound
He's got a cello
Is he niiiice tho?
He's got a uniform
With a badge and flag
Ups and a spurs cap
She's got flip flops on
It's almost October ...
But then again
I'm a tank top and shades
Because they look good
And because he sweat out my twists and now I over compensate
Am I a philosopher ?
Are they?
Are we all?
Do you judge me
With your book?
And your religion ?
In your Luis Vitton
While I bump the Louie Vitton Don
We did like 4 rounds between sundown and noon
I'm nude underneath all this
Swaying in between unwanted and over demanded
I'm sky high
And I can't thank you enough
Assata
She who struggles
I'm loud for the people
Loud
But am I louder than the people?
I can't don't won't hear you
Walk with a switch
Fire in my fist
Coach put me in like *
Dessa
I just wanna be soft sometimes
Tho
And get pretty and put in barrettes
And you sweat out my baby twists
In ways my mother could only imagine
You got my number, hit my phone
And ring me up on some cultural intellectual shit
Shoo hit me up on some ratchet shit if you wanna
Owwww
Just don't think of me as the centerpiece of interesting in your life of monotony
☀️☀️☀️I wanna shine with you
Let your bright out
Don't let this city make you forget how to smile
dance together
Sway
In between Atlantic ave Barclay and the Brooklyn I used to know
Wait
I just got kicked by a baby on the bus
Mmmp
That's the Brooklyn I know :)
Round and round
Go
Round and round

You've made me beautiful again
You listen when I tell you how much I appreciate your essence
And you hear it
You see me
Seeing you
And in this simple act
And I feel affirmed
Because i thirst for validation

Back then it was I've ever wanted since that spring
Under the sycamore tree

Made me a more sicker emcee
With a sickening addiction
Living with this
Living witness to life and her shit list
Would make you leave religion with the quickness
My country capitalistic
Puts babies beneath ballistics
where nice people get pressed into machine cogs
And K/cats that are so poetic spit bars in between subway cars
And everyones too preoccupied pretending not to notice
We're riding a Reading Rainbow
No invite tho?
to dine at life's table of pleasures
I feel guilty
Eat with me

The thirst in this city is outta control sometimes
Considering the high level of I don't give a fuckery

A pair of sibling giggle and tug on childhood to my right and I can't help but to smile

I'd hate to be the person who can

Though people respond to my questions about their happiness aggressively
As if I needed a lesson in all the ways that things are so succinctly screwed up

She's tense
She's their mother
She winces
And grimaces

She asks me to take the baby
I would but I'm getting off the next stop.
I realize she's speaking to her daughter who is shocked that I would cradle a stranger

Not knowing that I waltz horizontally with friends who make themselves into strangers with great walls sealed with emotion

Give me your body
I cradle him too
Give me your boy

I know you intimately
And I don't know the first thing you

I do know I gotta I back downstairs tho
The family dollar got pads cheaper than bus fare
And after last night I'm flowin like a poet with Milky Way kisses along their cheekbone
Alive w/ a hive of a mind buzzing with rythmic words and lyricism
No need to switch the Algorythm*

This is simply the way it is
But not the only the way it needs to be

Sway with me ...

September 2014

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from the Marketplace (mixtape), released September 14, 2021

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Amani O+ Albany, New York

Raptivist, spoken word artist & abolitionist, Amani O+ uplifts love, art & service as necessary rebellions against the sense of disconnection & hopelessness that threaten our collective peace & wellness.

Amani aims 2 inspire all those they come into contact with to remember their magic, trust their vision & share their unique gifts with the world.

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