Bent
Bent
"Baby, I’m just trying to make a dollar. That’s all. I just want to eat some meat now and again. You cain’t play no jazz on beans and rice alone, you got to have meat!"
Life is rough if you’re a musician…...you know? Trying payin’ the bills on musician money. You cain’t do it! What I’m gonna do, though? I cain’t do no 9 to 5. I tried it once. Scared the hell outta me. I got ulcers. A brain tumor. I couldn’t eat. Couldn’t sleep. So I had to quit, and play music instead.
You got to understand, a musicians brain don’t work like a banker’s brain!
A banker count money!
A musician count time!
An actor pretends.
A lawyer pretends to care…..to get yo' money.
A musician feels the world thru music, sound and color, and all of it’s connected together somehow. That’s a musician’s language. The language of sound and feeling. Especially, if you’re a jazz or blues musician, country music, too.
What you got to understand is, not everybody fits. There some crooked muthafuckas out there. I don’t mean criminals. I mean, they like a crooked line in a straight world. They just don’t fit. And when you bent, if you bent far enough, you ain’t never gonna be straight.
You just stay bent.
Bust'a Crab
"Baby, I’m just trying to make a dollar. That’s all. I just want to eat some meat now and again. You cain’t play no jazz on beans and rice alone, you got to have meat!"
Life is rough if you’re a musician…...you know? Trying payin’ the bills on musician money. You cain’t do it! What I’m gonna do, though? I cain’t do no 9 to 5. I tried it once. Scared the hell outta me. I got ulcers. A brain tumor. I couldn’t eat. Couldn’t sleep. So I had to quit, and play music instead.
You got to understand, a musicians brain don’t work like a banker’s brain!
A banker count money!
A musician count time!
An actor pretends.
A lawyer pretends to care…..to get yo' money.
A musician feels the world thru music, sound and color, and all of it’s connected together somehow. That’s a musician’s language. The language of sound and feeling. Especially, if you’re a jazz or blues musician, country music, too.
What you got to understand is, not everybody fits. There some crooked muthafuckas out there. I don’t mean criminals. I mean, they like a crooked line in a straight world. They just don’t fit. And when you bent, if you bent far enough, you ain’t never gonna be straight.
You just stay bent.
Bust'a Crab