Own Thang - Throwback (2004)

2010-10-19 73

http://audioimagery.net Probably the earliest-written yet most loved song. Still gives me chills. This song was one of the first musical collaborations of Audio Imagery. We really wanted to break the mold of being your regular rap group and try something different. We push our boundaries with instrumentation - using guitar and bass as the cornerstone of the track. This is also a track we used the lovely voice of Crissy, Baby Val and Jillian. Thank you to you lovely ladies - miss working with you. This song brings back so many good memories! Much props to A.N.T.I for laying down the guitar work and thanks to Cos for another sick verse and his assistance with the production. This song really is the quintessential Throwback Audio Imagery song. I still agree with every word in this song. I remember recording part of this in my dorm room back in south halls at Penn State. Dang... good times... Enough reminiscing and just enjoy the music. Lyrics: Chorus Try to tell me what to do I just want to do my own thang They want me to live that life I just want to live my own dreams Verse 1: There some days that the sky looks as dark as soot I peek through the blinds, as my apartment shook or maybe it was I, i can't tell the difference as remnant dreams flash intermittently the harder I look but i feels ideals of Harvard afoot The path in the road splits, so in the middle the harder I book, I got caught by reason each day grows sharper the hook Being torn leaves me beatin' like pearl harbor did look Dreams fall to formalities, I try to dodge practicalities But this life eating me, the bites larger they took I'm sailin' on a sea where money's on the left I'm moving forward, but my dreams in heaven, so Startboard I look I map out my plans in life like chess moves but only stress grew I was told to tackle math so I wrestled my expected future while all the rest knew that my soul nestled in a completely different vessel so this song's my confessional, and i don't speak alone many enroll to learn from teachers on, ...

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