Ballad of the DeckHand

On the first hour of work you're alert and worry free
the second hour of work you feel the tension on your knees
but the third hour brings 10 barges load of corn and yellow peas.
You belong to the river now and you'll have to give your sweat and all
the fourth hour seems a bit more worry free
and the fifth hour is a time to cruise the river on your double tow knee
by the sixth hour, ratchets have drained your elbow grease
You belong to the river now and you'll have to give your sweat and all
The seventh hour brings a crowd of empties
rusty and banged up...you'll try to catch a few Zzzz
but the eighth hour beckons for the boats of Missouri and Tennesse
The ninth hour comes creeping, with the wind and nightime freeze
You belong to the river now and you'll have to give your sweat and all
The 10th hour and you're off to see more lines and catch more vines
tick...tock..tick..tock...and your eleventh hour plays hide and seek
You belong to the river now and you'll have to give your sweat and all
and not to sweat it all....you drink the night's last gatorade and eat the last morsel
wishing that your captain would see that you're down to your last muscle
into port you roll ready to sleep as the world awakes.
You belong to the river now and you'll have to give your sweat and all

I'm through....I wash my hands

I'm done with being on the defense and not only that I'm done explaining myself
You knew me.... I know me
Therefore I'm done explaining why the snakes bite at my feet.
Take your life and live it, take your strife and use it
I'm done
I'm mad as hell and theres no backing down
I know me

Igziabeher

A day ago someone contacted me by e-mail asking and pestering...what is Igziabeher you write about it a lot. I replied...it's true words spoken by the Third World Prophet himself and forvever preserved on wax.

Igziabeher

IGZIABEHER
LET JAH BE PRAISED
NEGUSA NEGHAST
LET JAH BE PRAISED
ME DON E-AH LAMB

LET JAH BE PRAISED
LET HIM BE PRAISED(3X)

HE WATERETH THE HILLS
FROM HIS CHAMBERS
AND THE EARTH IS SATISFIED
SO SATISFIED
HE MAKETH THE GRASS TO GROW FOR ANIMALS
JAH MADE THE HERB FOR MAN(3X)

FRET NOT THYSELF
BECAUSE OF EVILDOERS
NEITHER BE THOU ENVIOUS
AGAINST THE WORKERS OF INEQUITY
FOR THEY SHALL SOON BE CUT DOWN
CUT DOWN LIKE GRASS
AND THEY SHALL WITHER LIKE CORN

LET JAH ARISE
AND LET ALL HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED
LET THEM THAT HATE JAH
NOW SCAT UP SHUT UP BUTT UP AND FLAT UP
AS THE SMOKE WAS DRIVEN AWAY
JAH, DRIVE THEM AWAY
AS THE ROCKS MELTED
LET THEM BE MELTED JAH-JAH

IGZIABEHER
LET JAH BE PRAISED
YOU DON E-AH LAMB
LET JAH BE PRAISED
NEGUSA NEGHAST
LET JAH BE PRAISED
LET HIM BE PRAISED(4X)

AHH...LIGHTNING
EARTHQUAKE
BRIMSTONE
FOR THE FIRE

I SAID LIGHTNING
BRIMSTONE AND FIRE
IGZIABEHER

WEAKHEART SCAT UP SHUT UP FLAT UP AND BUTT OUT
I FEEL IT
WEAKHEART FEEL IT
KILL THEM DEAD BEFORE THEM SPREAD...

Walk it off

Today felt like many of those days when I become overwhelmed by the multitude of questions facing me , so I decided to do something I'd never done in a few months...Walk It Off.

As I walked down the road for more than 2 hours listening to the sounds and words of the immortal Peter Tosh on my mp3 player, I felt the tense knots of overthinking slowly unwind from my brain and fall to the wayside.

It's amazing how fast time and distance go when the brain is on a race of its own. Coupled with the sweet sounds of the reggae rythm and the restless abandon with which I walked...I couldn't feel any better.

IGZIBEHER

Bad Photographer or Bad Photoshopper?

After reading a story on CNN.com today about a photographer who altered pictures of the bombing in Beirut to make them look more destructive than they actually were. Anyone whos ever dealt with Photoshop would have told this photographer...get used to the Clone Stamp Tool a bit more if you want make stuff look more like it never appeared ( why would you want to do that in the first place?) Oh wait he was Lebanese, but in my opinion he was a terrible Photoshopper and a sucker for believing that people would buy his explaination.

Make Your own judgements folks...I present my analysis...