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Message Man

Message Man is the second album by Eddy Grant. He plays every instrument and sings every voice on this album. The album is significant for its socio-political stance in songs such as "Race Hate" and "Cockney Black". The track, "Hello Africa", is considered a major highlight of this album with Grant creating a unique genre that remains difficult to categorize to this day. more »

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Winged critters flutter inside my chest
Urging me to seek my rest, I confess
I'm stressed and I've hardly addressed
What's dragging me to my starlit nest

Quivering breathe, these thoughts manifest
With a clique of emotions left unexpressed
Held to my vest,so finely dressed and finessed
In a straightjacket to look at my best

I'm alone, and rarely at my best
Strip down, my jacket, my makeup, guard and disguise
No more impressing faultless eyes
Just uncovered underneath a starlit sky

The sky seems to help temper down thoughts that drown
Till familiar faces and voices of the night come down
To remind me of who I am, and who I am
Nothing more than a sham born matured and damned

I see reflective respective prospectives
And it might seem subjective but I'm not the architect of
This vehicular vessel taking me to and fro
And it bothers me everything moves slow

Impatient, my patience will not show
Look a distraction, I think I glow
But In a moment passing headlights go
And I sit passenger side with no glow you know

3 would load me in, 2 would take me away
Give me reasons to wait and stay
Not many more than 2, the crew with a front row view
Could convince me that there is some beauty that's true

While 5 would lay away, scraping to save a day
There lies 2 more that would tug and battle to which I sway
To one I am the prey, beg me stay away
To the other I should pray but I'm just a passenger known to sway

And in this passenger seat I can see everything
Everything, emotion, fear and aspiration
The driver won't speak to me, moving speedily
So I sit and wait, I hate to wait, wish I could be sleeping

If I could sleep, I might wake with another take
Something less opaque and a lot less ache
For the sake of feeling like I could overtake
I'd like to sleep, but I need to stay awake

Stay awake I can't fight when I'm asleep
I'm just a prisoner afraid to take the leap
I've abused my body, I don't sleep
Out of fear and respect for the monsters that I keep

I heard of other passengers, but don't see another passenger
Do we have a different vernacular?
It would be nice to have a similar traveler
But then again I don't wanna open the door to my massacre

Endless blood shed, close to mentally dead
Dependent on who asks is to the truth that I've said
Not too many pass me by, in the blink of an eye
I stand by myself again in the dead of night

In your ravine, it's distant at times and other times
It's familiar, a pattern I can't discern
How and why did I get here? Nothing is clear
I worry sometimes at times my State is severe

Cause when those things start to flutter
Buffer, catch up, and I lose my color
This sound and this light lose luster
And this night and my fight take all I can muster

Losing love for the cover
Make a sound for a conductor
Maintain a palace for my constructer
Another mind to discover, but too tired to recover

I don't know when these metaphors lose their taste
When symbols and imagery move with too much haste
When rhymes and riddles are exhausted
And stories are just that; haunted

For passengers like me

Passenger: close of the tape
Driver please the loop the record
Cause this sound is so sweet
Doesn't make me feel incomplete

Passenger melody escape
My breath will fog the glass it's blurred
Sing out of tune and slay this beat
In the passage of these streets

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