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The Uplift

from 102 Magnets by Sankofa

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    As I was getting ready to go to Detroit, I reached for my luggage and found this book bag inside of which were some of these. Instead of an obi strip, I had custom ribbon made and then I had my guy Wrecklords use a laser etcher to make some aluminum stickers which sealed the case shut. Inside are two CDs, $5,000 Flashlights with beats by Agent Orange and artwork from Greg Locke and 102 Magnets featuring artwork and production from J. Dankworth along with a holographic sticker.

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Think of the all things you did to get to where you are
We take for granted all the pieces, paths we wandered far
It’s a given that we find mistakes and magnify them
Isolating ourselves our hell, a saddened island

Don’t those strings pull at your heart man?
Make you want to take on the world with just your own hands
Let the music flood your soul until it takes hold
Overcoming the fear that’s freezing you cold

Evaporating every drop of hope we have held close
Seeking someone else to set it right, nobody else knows
Nobody’s going to help you if you don’t try first
Life can be a struggle tears flooding your eyes hurt

Don’t those strings pull at your heart man?
Make you want to take on the world with just your own hands
Let the music flood your soul until it takes hold
Overcoming the fear that’s freezing you cold

Look, whatever you going to be is who you are
And other answers seem easy cause the truth is hard
We learned to walk, we learned to talk, we learned to interact
Some do better than others, but there’s no stepping back
We’re only here for so long, we’ve got make it count
And when it’s gone we’ll never know we ever touched the ground
No time machine, our children are the bridges made
May you not envision death as sitting at the prison’s gate

Don’t those strings pull at your heart man?
Make you want to take on the world with just your own hands
Let the music flood your soul until it takes hold
Overcoming the fear that’s freezing you cold


Sometimes the hardest thing to speak is the word no
But too many yeses start to lessen your worth, so
Learn to recognize what is going to help you live
Cause that’s what matters, reasons to breathe, and shift

Don’t those strings pull at your heart man?
Make you want to take on the world with just your own hands
Let the music flood your soul until it takes hold
Overcoming the fear that’s freezing you cold

It’s not selfish to take care of yourself first
Look at flight attendants when the oxygen masks drop
Guilt is just an obstacle to drop you a well, hurt
So go ahead...and let that self defeating trash drop

Don’t those strings pull at your heart man?
Make you want to take on the world with just your own hands
Let the music flood your soul until it takes hold
Overcoming the fear that’s freezing you cold

Bad things happen to good people it’s not you
Karma is a trap that only happens after life’s through
Plastering a smile is only going to cause strain
Is there a problem with honesty that got claimed?
Is it fear of being hurt that keeps our wings tucked away
We’d rather shuffle in the gray then live to touch the day
There’s no resuscitating the years that have passed by
And what’s the value of regret replaying all the bad times

Don’t those strings pull at your heart man?
Make you want to take on the world with just your own hands
Let the music flood your soul until it takes hold
Overcoming the fear that’s freezing you cold

Is it weakness that causes me to speak these thoughts aloud?
A reason for feet gliding as my head is lost in clouds
I don’t have time to read between lines so interwoven
I’d rather take a deep breathe inside of winter, frozen

Don’t those strings pull at your heart man?
Make you want to take on the world with just your own hands
Let the music flood your soul until it takes hold
Overcoming the fear that’s freezing you cold

I’ve seen people running around, wearing catcher’s mitts
Hoping feelings rain down from the sky in a blitz
On the other side of the coin are cynics, optimism shrouded
Avoiding the experience of life just like it’s sour

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from 102 Magnets, released June 10, 2019

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