Common Market

Keep Track Lyrics



Aiyo – in Jet City, it’s a whole lot happenin’

River City it’s a whole lot happenin’

Tampa Bay, it’s a whole lot happenin’

Up in Atlanta it’s a whole lot happenin’

In Cincinnati it’s a whole lot happenin’

In Portland it’s a whole lot happenin’

In every spot I’ve ever been I find

Men and women resigned to try and keep track of time…



Consumed by the flow of the flume, I ride rapids

Marooned, the map’s written in Rune – decipher this,

kid

Impugned by the spirits entombed; the didactic of doom

If not for the black balloon I would’ve missed it

Interposed by secular droves demanding answers

Who chose the standards of rogues over the mystics?

Deposed – over the summit rose the grand banner of

those

Who battled fate to escape the throes of physics

Amused by the glow of the fuse, the wick sparks

We choose to call conditions “improved” with no

logistics

Unmoved by the chorus of “oohs” or the barks of the

prudes

I follow the marks of Sioux’s tribal blitzes

Forewarned by the bugler’s horn – the cock crows

And swarms of fowl flock to the warmth of outer limits

Adorned with a diadem of thorns, now the clock’s got

horns

Every last lock shorn – it’s too explicit, but yo



Up in Athena it’s a whole lot happenin’

Iraklio it’s a whole lot happenin’

Even Prassas got a whole lot happenin’

In Abdu it’s a whole lot happenin’

At Capsis it’s a whole lot happenin’

Knossos knows a whole lot’s happenin’

In every spot I’ve ever been I find

Men and women resigned to try and keep track of time…



Allayed by the shadow of shade – light’s oppressive

Afraid the test is only a grade – the sum of digits

Betrayed by the master of slaves; the antiseptic on

blades

Teach ‘em a lesson; the maze – come and get it

Pronounced by the Duke and the Count to be the promise

Announced – I’m assigned to the house – repute’s illest

Surmount the opposition and bounce – a man of modest

accounts

Hierarchy trounced when I shoot to kill it

Bereaved by the acts of thieves – my term’s served

Believe not words – those who grieve will be uplifted

Decreed in the books of the freed – you’d be unnerved

to read

When the lines are blurred, your speed is shifted

Crossed by the albatross, I see the signs

The frost is climbin’ over the moss, I feel timid

I pause to collect my thoughts – how was this time

lost?

Pray that I find the source of the remedy, yo



Up in Lusaka it’s a whole lot happenin’

Luanshya it’s a whole lot happenin’

In Kitwe it’s a whole lot happenin’

Mpongwe it’s a whole lot happenin’

Kulundu, it’s a whole lot happenin’

Lilanda it’s a whole lot happenin’

In every spot I’ve ever been I find

Men and women resigned to try and keep track of time…