Have a Nice Life - Earthmover [mp3]
We would sit together outside of your place, on cement blocks just talking about the past like it was the long forgotten missed opportunity. Smoking cigarettes that were meant for other mouths, trading stories and truth about the nature of our experience, I would feel a warmth rising in my chest and you would too maybe because we’d light up another in a chain of smoking lasting far too long for the cold. Together we were neglected, unappreciated, barely acknowledged enough to be ignored, an invisible class but we could have changed the face of history, you and I we could have made a difference in perceptions. I would sometimes watch you at the podium, giving a speech about whatever, your thought process transparent while discussing the inherent impacts and topical technicalities. You were off thinking otherwise and maybe we were meant to be, our mindsets so similar in distraction, unable to even consider the here and now. We would sit and reminisce out of a dearth of subjects to speak of but then occasionally there would be a spark, a poem recited and I would share with you the words of my ways. And in those moments, I reflect now, an art was born in the each of us, an often indescribable feeling and desire for creation. I think again about seemingly insignificant times spent doing drugs and smoking cigarettes, stooping for a better view, finding our voice together, one realization at a time.
Have a Nice Life are a rhythm and blues band from Connecticut. The featured song is from the album Voids. Purchase the music at Enemieslist Home Recordings.
