The original FAWM entry and lyrics follow.

Tim Fatchen

2012-02-11 @ 07:55pm
tags: spoken-word urban folk

Rittmo' sez: After reading my FAWM bio, Annie Mayo Graf (Rhymetime) suggested that I find music for it, so I did :) I found Tim Fatchen's beautiful piece titled "Turnaround"

Tim sez: This just turned out...amazing! I think this collab is the single most moving piece of art I've been involved with this year. Rittmo' has taken his bio, touched my music, and put the two together in such a way that it transcends both. And the music originally was...just a turnaround stocking filler...

Lyrics by and Copyright © 2012 Rittmo' (Richard Blum)
Music by and Copyright © 2012 TJ Fatchen

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Lyrics

For twenty five odd years I drove a graveyard shift taxi
through the worst neighborhoods of NYC.
Through my picture window I've seen angels surrounding
the stars, the devils daughter feet dangling off a crescent moon,
her eyes on fire. I greeted the suits and those in rags
with the same how are you doin' smile,
somehow along the road I logged three million unscratched miles.
I believe I know about as much about footprints in the sand as any man
can I've seen good and evil first hand, drove a hit man to a club
called sin city, he asked if I wanted to stop in for a drink,
I respectfully declined; as I drove away I could hear gunfire,
sometimes in the city, things ain't so pretty,
and so I write lyrics for songs to be,
you would think I'd be more cryptic,
but that just isn't me....:)