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The Sound of Alekesam

by Alekesam

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1.
a check that bounces i keep cashing you in clearly your touched but i keep playing to win waste my time but the times keep coming at me faster and faster let them clocks run free they stick to a theme who ever's writing my dreams I'm not tripping on the score, I'm just thinking 'bout things i block all the calls, they keep patching you in you've got the touch, why don't you play me again from my eyes to my brain my heart to my head here comes that sound again it's like we started from the end, again here comes that sound again never mind all the signs that divert me away an eye for design makes it easy to stay you hit rewind while I'm pressing record the picture stays the same and that's hard to ignore from my eyes to my brain my heart to my head here comes that sound again it's like we started from the end, again here comes that sound again from my eyes to my brain my heart to my head bad news couldn't spread so fast seems like too much noise to keep out here comes that sound again, again its like we started from the end, again i've clearly been touched i hope i know if i win i've gone down stranger roads i'm super weirded out, but i'm under control i've gone down stranger roads it's like we started from the end it's like we started at the end i've clearly been touched i hope i know if i win
2.
The Breeze 03:27
trimming the globe from tip to toe, hop on this plane if your ship don't sail, off the coast, time begins, always stay afloat steady traveling, i am the breeze, i can go anywhere, you're the only you, oh yes even there, we can follow the darkest light, breeze (repeat) leave it all behind for the rise of the swell there's a house worth of coins in that well try to hide from them gypsy eyes reflections have a fortune to tell does your shadow see you as one of a kind couldn't get here again if I tried i am the breeze, i can go anywhere, you're the only you, oh yes even there, we can follow the darkest light, breeze (repeat)
3.
you told me you were leaving i can see what that means wake up, no dog no girl and the keys to a brand new world take a look at my pedigree and tell me what you were expecting of me i can fly, why deny i can feel that my heart is free from your spell i tie my shoes to each other and throw myself down the stairs hey, that's one way to get to the bottom of things if you and me ever get ourselves together we'll be right there if you and me ever get ourselves together we'll be right there if you and me ever get ourselves together we'll be right there sunrise, you right next to me where were you in my dreams don't wake up i'm stuck don't wanna know if you'll stay or go open my eyes and you hazel me yo, thats your hand on my thigh lick your lips, kiss your hips with a hello that feels like goodbye i tie my shoes to each other and throw myself down the stairs hey, thats one way to get to the bottom of things if you and me ever get ourselves together we'll be right there if you and me ever get ourselves together we'll be right there if you and me ever get ourselves together we'll be right there
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Summer Jams (free) 04:04
the sun comes out and every bodies everywhere placing bets and chasing thrills the summer jams are leaking thru your window sill across the ocean through the hills it shouldn't come as some revelation it called a week ago and made a reservation all we ever wanted all we ever needed is here right now all we ever wanted all we ever needed is here right now the girls ride by with the booming systems it burns in your eye in case you thought that you missed them its all in the air, it beats in your chest you wear your stress like a sundress it shouldn't come as some revelation light up the phones make a request at the station all we ever wanted all we ever needed is here right now all we ever wanted all we ever needed is here right now all we ever wanted was to be there and feel it all night long all we ever needed was the music to tell us what went wrong you, you need to let go, you need to be fine can't you see we are shoveling sunshine you, you need to let go, you need to be fine can't you see we are shoveling sunshine all we ever wanted all we ever needed is here right now all we ever wanted all we ever needed is here right now all we ever wanted was to be there and feel it all night long all we ever needed was the music to tell us what went wrong
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the touch of your eyes on my entrance the thousand years we wont mention you stifle my world with your presence we spun ourselves around gravity lost and found times clear, we are bound for ascension no more being pulled in directions here here we got each other's attention you send me like a stamp collection finally I can see the dimensions we spun ourselves around gravity, lost and found where did we go right i need your presence in my future where did we go right i find my comfort in your magic the touch of your kiss leads to elation slow down, enjoy the situation switch it up, change the location' momentum, vibe the vibration momentum, vibe the vibration we spun ourselves around wravity, lost and found wide eyed, steady adoration no need to flirt with temptation enough of those trials and tribulations your love, my validation on for ever vacation on for ever vacation we spun ourselves around gravity, lost and found where did we go right i need your presence in my future where did we go right i find my comfort in your magic where did we go right i need your presence in my future where did we go right i find my comfort in your magic in the middle of my life all up in my stride your still by my side you stay by my side gravity, lost and found where did we go right i need your presence in my future where did we go right i find my comfort in your magic where did we go right i need your presence in my future where did we go right i find my comfort in your magic
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as you listen to the records spinning at home far far away somebody's gunning for the thrown bidding for your mind stalling for some time your agenda don't matter wipe that sleep out your eye when it comes knocking at your door close your eyes and pray brace yourself, its too late to be safe brace yourself rising rising rising rising no aisle to reach across just enough respect pinching all the pennies to make sense of your check if all that you need is the best you can get than try and sum it up in a buck forty or less when it comes knocking at your door close your eyes and pray brace yourself, its too late to be safe brace yourself, its too late to be safe brace yourself, its too late to be safe brace yourself rising rising rising rising over population under education incarceration either first or last, ain't no middle in this class used to catch bottles now you've barely got a glass its knockin' at your door close your eyes and pray its knockin' at your door close your eyes and pray brace yourself, its too late to be safe brace yourself, its too late to be safe brace yourself, its too late to be safe why don't you franchise, teach yourself to think brace yourself
7.
there's no corners in my circle, i don't fit in this box, never meant to hurt you, couldn't stand you fallen down on my... watch what I do, try and stay next to you, i know you won't go for the things that could take you where you think you ought a be with your arms wide open you we're hoping' it be my last stop, i don't think its over... it's not you, it's here, in this whole wild world, does singular love mean enough this year, for you my dear, for you my dear, for you, i thought I'd be your savior, but I'm getting by on my bad behavior, for you my dear I try to steer clear but I'm hardly able, i really don't think you can go that far on a diet of broken hearts, i'll be your gentleman, you'll be my sunshine, if we could love like we did at the start, it's not you, it's here, in this whole wild world, does singular love mean enough this year, for you my dear, for you my dear, i try and I try to make things nice, if it cost me my life, it's at a discount price, i try and I try to make things nice if it cost me my life it's at a discount price in this whole wild world it's not you, it's here in this whole wild world it's not you, it's here
8.
You Kick Out 05:24
i turn show ponies into wild horses i'm a black cowboy riding a dolphin when you swim with me you can breathe the sea see the breeze, be... profiling, scuba dive, you feel me, i feel you get up on me, canopy enjoy the beast, like you was climbing trees where you at i'm trying to find you it's a long way to go circle back i'm trying to define you it's the wrong way to know looking good, at the skyline windblown, all shown satellites, postcards spun around, but i get there riding well, we pace ourselves shake those shells rock the bells you come to me from the future how you do them things you do where you at i'm trying to find you it's a long way to go circle back i'm trying to define you it's the wrong way to know morning eyes hi tide uga booga valentine ju ju clean craze new sensual
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Black Cowboy 05:04
i turn show ponies into wild horses i'm a black cowboy riding a dolphin when you swim with me you can breathe the sea see the breeze, be... profiling, scuba dive, you feel me, i feel you get up on me, canopy enjoy the beast, like you was climbing trees where you at i'm trying to find you it's a long way to go circle back i'm trying to define you it's the wrong way to know looking good, at the skyline windblown, all shown satellites, postcards spun around, but i get there riding well, we pace ourselves shake those shells rock the bells you come to me from the future how you do them things you do where you at i'm trying to find you it's a long way to go circle back i'm trying to define you it's the wrong way to know morning eyes hi tide uga booga valentine ju ju clean craze new sensual
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there comes a time when you want to be older there comes a time when you want to be bolder i love you more when it's over i love you more when it's over i love you more when it's over i love you more there comes a time when your helpful there comes a time when your doubtful i love you more when your spiteful i love you more when your spiteful i love you more when your spiteful i love you more there comes a time to wake up to what's happening there comes a time to get out of what's happenin' i love you more than what's happening i love you more there comes a time when your near me there comes a time when your near me a time that captures what we're after a time that captures what we're after a time, a time, a time to capture what we're after there comes a time when you want to be older there comes a time when you want to be bolder i love you more when it's over i love you more when it's over i love you more when it's over i love you more when it's over

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Given the opportunity to press pause on a thirty-nine year existence dedicated to celebrating the creativity of others, and finally look inside at what it is that YOU have to give... What would you do? What would you make? What story would you tell? Selema Masekela decided he'd make his record. He decided that the voices in his head and heart were not crazy and deserved to be heard. Decided to team up with his cousin Sunny Levine and a few trusted musicians in a small studio in Los Angeles and embark on a ten week adventure. Write songs and simply see what happened. The Sound of Alekesam is what happened!

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released May 15, 2012

Performed by Alekesam

Written by Selema Masekela, Sunny Levine, Eamon Ryland, Giuseppe Patane and Zach Cowie

Produced by Sunny Levine

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Alekesam Los Angeles, California

Alekesam is the musical congruence of Sal Masekela and Sunny Levine. Theirs is a second generation musical union as the sons of longtime musical conspirators, Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine. ‘All Is Forgiven’ is the first song off their forthcoming second album, the follow up to their 2012 debut, The Sound Of Alekesam. ... more

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