Get the first book from "Mr. Read a Book". Circumlocution Vol II is a collection of poems, essays and song lyrics compiled from the last 3 years of Bomani's writing. Covering everything from love, fatherhood and the Sandusky scandal to blacks and homophobia and the bible, this book is definitely the circumlocutions of an irreverent mind.
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lyrics
Love is a language of laughter and tears
But the most telling moments are ones of silence
We have built this house
Where love reverberates off walls
And this isn’t sound
The squek of the door
The creaks in the floor
The pitch. The mood
We’ve tuned each other out
every story has been told
once melodic yarn spun across bedroom floors
like sunsets on desert horizons
like red wine on breath
like new velvet yielding to my fingers
now we just drone on
at one time the tenor in my voice held you
Now you wish I would hold my tongue
Sucked Teeth
Tapping fingers
The drum major in a war of words
the frustration is audible, so we change the play
Lost in translation
Not worth the frustration
There are no words for what I’m saying to you
Hush now
Not what but how
In my silence I have no choice but to be true
Your laugh brings color to white noise
Your accent flavors my morning
Your silhouette leaves me dumbstruck
Heart valves as metronome
Our minor disagreements show the beauty in dissonance
Our bedsheets soak in the echo of last nights love making
As you say my name in your own time signature
Struck a major chord
When the cacophony of life perforates ear drums
Leaving sky lines bleak
the air blanketed in rotted dreams
like raw knuckles on granite
the rhythm of your words is the percussion
that gets me back on beat
the perspective that brings my world back to scale
the conflict that resolves into harmony
in this duet, we pluck heart strings
until we hear
nothing
Lost in translation
Not worth the frustration
There are no words for what I’m saying to you
Hush now
Not what but how
In my silence I have no choice but to be true
credits
from Circumlocution Vol II,
released January 27, 2012
Written by Bomani Armah and Lisa Pegram
Produced & Engineered by Bomani Armah
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