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from One Day by Jesse Abraham

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(v1)
And so I felt that,
I could melt that ice that had sheltered round my little heart
At age ten was dealt some brittle cards
So I looked to women to warm me up
I put a note in her cubby
"i think I like like you, if you like like me check the box next to yes and we could be tight"
she said, "Yes"
Success!
I was quite hyped
it’s the fifth grade
I was Adam, she’s my rib cage
I was an atom, she’s the membrane
I wasn’t that obsessed with slap bracelets
Ok, yes I was, and yes I had braces
I even fronted like I cared about stickers
Fuzzies and oilies, the girls were all about em
At lunch my table was always crowded
“Watch me spin this dreidle,” I shouted

(hook)
if music be the food of love, then play on
x8

(v2)
I got older
Writing this girl’s name on my folder
I told her the same thing I tell you
And that’s everything
Writing poetry so she notice me hopefully
Girls getting bagged like groceries
But to me that ain’t the way that it’s supposed to be
Introduced my best friend to the love of my life
And then they started dating, and it fucked up my life For a minute became a bit of a cynic
Wasn’t in it to win it
And I dressed like Dennis the Menace on the Apprentice if he was playing tennis against a dentist in Venice,
ok now I’m exaggerating a tad
Graduatin from masterbating was rad
The fascination of imagination had passed
But my high school was frightful
the vibe, it was sad
And college?
I think you’ve heard enough about that

(hook)
if music be the food of love, then play on
x8

(v3)
If love is blind then I was Hellen Keller
Or Anne Frank,
a cellar dweller hiding from independence
For years she seemed so heaven sent
But it was evident that merriment was missing
we were each other’s medicine and vision,
I stayed reticent and wishing
That we would be the couple that I knew we could be
She was megan, we grew equally
But we also grew apart
sayin "peace" isn’t easy
but, shit, sometimes it’s gotta happen
This was round the time that I started hitting stages
Now girls approachin me as if I was rich and famous
But the fact is I was still switching phases
An ignoramus, now I’m playin the field
I’m just playin a game, these girls playin for real
Maybe ain’t the way it should be just the way that I feel
it's like

(hook)
if music be the food of love, then play on
x16

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from One Day, released June 14, 2011
Produced by !llMind
Mixed & Mastered by Alejandro "Sosa" Tello Jr.
Recorded at Ampliphonic Studios (Queens, NY)

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Jesse Abraham Brooklyn, New York

UMA Lyricist of the Year Jesse Abraham was born in NYC. His debut LP, One Day, spent weeks on DJBooth’s Top 5 & was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2011 Underground Music Awards. In '12, HipHopDX declared him their “DXNext” artist, right at the start of Abraham’s push towards his next full-length LP, the project entitled I Am Water, scheduled for a 1/29/13 drop via Fat Beats Records. ... more

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