Mine the Gap - Mud Sun

Check the lyrical adventure as I’m travel writing with a sense of rhythm

I’m as sensitive as vikings when inviting heads to listen

To this abstract expressionist rap

Like Jackson Pollock

When he spreads the pigment

This is Baba Brinkman on the Underground in London, England

Surrounded by the sound of competition causing constant friction

A lot of guys probably tryin' to strive for the top positions in their offices

And on this ride their eyes are mono vision

Crawling on the bodies of the hottest vixens probably thinkin'

«Ima get my knob licked by all these women, once I’ve got the auspicious job

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Plus the cars and riches for the proper proposition»

And I’m thinking all these bankers and doctors and lawyers in training

Probably have a whole lot to offer you gorgeous

And without the enormous wallet and other resources

All I can offer is locked in my cortex

Like the knowledge that the starving artist can rock your entire corpus

Like wild horses that never let you settle for a child’s portion

But I ain’t sittin' on the train stunned like James Blunt

So I get off at the next stop to go try to record this

Please mine the gap

Please mine the gap

Please don’t disturb this man when he’s trying to rap

Please stand clear of the closing doors

The closing doors determine my chosen course

When I infiltrate the city like a Trojan horse

The next stop is Marble Arch

Please mine the gap

Please mine the gap

Please stand clear of the closing doors

On this public transit labyrinth in London

I’m standing on the subway crammed in

With a bunch of other with a bunch of other average companions

Then someone Islamic steps onto the carriage

Clutching a lumpy package and everybody panics

So we gotta stop the train and wait for the cops to come

And confiscate his Double Club Sandwich

I got my iPod on watching bumping Cut Chemist

As they let him off with a warning

And now he’s got a suspended sentence

And it’s obvious to everybody now that he’s innocent

Like 99% of his religious and ethnic brethren

But that never prevented these British citizens from letting their suspicions

Get the better of their stiff upper lips

And forgetting the principles of liberty and justice just this once

To protect the parents of their kids

And now I just missed my connection

And I was on my way to meet up with this lady

So that I could try to get some

Feminine affection

But instead, I’m directionless

Like the rest of my generation

So instead of wasting my free time chasing a feline

I spend the day at a demonstration at the train station

Waving a Peace sign

Please mine the gap

Please mine the gap

Please don’t disturb this man when he’s trying to rap

Please stand clear of the closing doors

The closing doors determine my chosen course

When I infiltrate the city like a Trojan horse

Please mine the gap

Please mine the gap

Please stand clear of the closing doors

Underfoot, underground cultures cross fertilize

I stand under a dirty sign and watch bodies hurtle by

Behind glass etched with the tags of graf artists

Who see the works work the circuit of the circle line

Bags are snatched

Other bags hang under worker’s eyes

Bags full of blues, coffee and overtime

We stare at each others shoes

'Cause shoes designate a certain pride

We’ve all bought the merchandise

And when the train stops at Totteridge & Whetstone

We all look up and watch a nervous guy get off his bench

And get in line and step in

Let’s call him Kevin

Blushing at the couple showing signs of affection

Kevin sits and tries to hide his erection

Behind a paperback entitled «Pride and Perfection»

Hunched spine like a question, he wants to chat

But people are unreachable across the gap

The gap between the seats which allows passengers to read

The Metro without touching knees with the next bloke

The gap between the dweeb with their legs closed

And the pin striped white collar fiending to get coke

Up in the gap between the office and the strip club

Hopin' it ends in a cocktail and a dick rub

It’s the gap between a man that enters with a pimp strut

And the lady reading «Heat» that wants a nip and tuck

All citizens of the world just different hair-dos

Step across the gap bruv

I dare you

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