I said, 'you are the beautiful, distress of mathematics.' She lips pursed as if her breath was too sweet and full for her mouth to hold. Her eyes sparkled like lights along the new city. Her skinny canvas for ultraviolet brushstrokes

She made my heart beat in a now/now time signature. Like the new moon, like a diamond in the mines, like high noon to a drunkard, sudden. I sat still in hopes that it would help my wings to grow, The sun beat between my shoulders like carnival drums. I stretched my arms towards the sky like blades of tall grass. and.I.could .was.to.beĪnd left to drown in his sunny afternoon,

Our beautiful melody became wildly staccato. Made the coochie easy and the obvious invisible. The mistake was made, love slipped from my lips,ĭripped down my chin and landed in his lap, Wide open, wide, loose like bowels after collard greens. The rain was falling and slowly and sweetly and stinging my eyes,Īnd I could see that he became my voodoo priest, I felt like cayenne pepper, red, hot spicy. We were nice and warm, no jacket, no umbrella, just warm.Īnd he would physically give me each and every one. Sweet on my mind like block parties and penny candy. Talked about Moses and Mumia, reparations, blue colors, memories of shell-topped Adidas. Took me on long walks to places where butterflies rest easy, Otherwise, listeners will need to go into this with an open mind, knowing that the majority of these mixes could not possibly substitute for the originals.Said he wanted to talk about my mission, listen to my past lives. The sleek dance-pop 'B-Sharp Clubin Mix' of 'Come See Me,' the work of Jacques Richmond and Bruce Walker, is surprisingly effective despite its radical departure from Scott's sound.

Ron Trent's atmospheric house mix of 'Spring Summer Feeling' and Jazzy Jeff's casually funky version of 'A Long Walk' (originally released in 2001) are the standouts, and they both do right by Scott's vocals. Unsurprisingly, this first volume in the Crates series is a mixed bag. Scott fans could be forgiven for being skeptical about yet another round of Hidden Beach releases to follow the singer's departure to Warner Bros.

That is, the Hidden Beach label released seven Jill Scott titles that were either compilations or live recordings, while only three studio albums of original material - the Words and Sounds trilogy - were issued. The three-volume Crates: Remix Fundamentals series made the score seven to three.

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