Cheap Tension Lyrics

Cheap Tension

New York City streets

Mayoral proclamation posted on birdlands walls

Here

Be it known

Jazz breathes in new york city

Jazz lives and thrives in new york city

It's the soldiers in the clubs

The musicians and the singers

Pumping out the chords

Chirping away

While the kids sip martinis and beer

Looking for a mate

Where do the birds roost

When they come to play

The pretty tunes for

The pretty people

New york city

Is the place

Where jazz lives

But how do the cats

Get their kitties

A place to roost

Money, money, money, money honey

The man at the door wants to know who you are?

How you gonna pay?

You order tea at the bar

The bartender says

Hey, don't you want something a little stronger

I love tea, don't you?

Masters here and gone

Still the tradition carries on

Big bands

Trios quartets

No more heroin

No more speed

No more acid

No more cocaine

Now it's microdosing mushrooms

Where does the inspiration come from?

Good clean living?

Soul searching?

Buddhism

Creating the co-evolvment

Of all sentient beings?

Eating jazz

Dying jazz

Being jazz

Improvising life

Walking between

Creativity

Order

Chaos

Globe walking

Dancing thru the shifting layers

Surviving, blooming, pushing up

Through the concrete

Granite formations

Are you here proclaiming the joys of incarnation?

Using the language of the ancestors

To lift consciousness

Like a whore or a troubadour

The forces of Neptune, Pluto

The realm of jazz

Spiritual lightening

Transformative to those

Whose vibrations

Are aligned

With the molecular structure of jazz

This is not Venus music

This is Saturn Music

Mars Music

Mercury Music

From the Spheres

Electric Etheric

Silhouetting the photon arrangements of particles

Molecules interact unexpectedly organized around music helix

Cross-genetic mutations

Blood mixed sweat

Water from the Mother Spring

Desert drumming

Tunesia water

Aborigine tears

Pygme forest people

Harlem heaven

Hayou shrimping mud

Heroin churches

Ancestor spirit ethers

Tiger umbilical cords

Buddha diamond eyes

Colorado wild horses

Mohawk Nation

Apache breath

Smoky quartz

Rio grande blue sky

We all live in these notes

Living music

Sliver of a silver moon

Through the black spruce trees

On a summer night

Over the California ocean