Thursday, December 28, 2006

James Brown: It's Time To Go Home

Determined to make it,
His dance a threat,
His voice a power,
Combined,
A Cold Sweat,


It's Time To Go Home

His face was stone,
His hair was whipped,
Jaw line was bold,
His heart,
A warm morning mist,

It's Time To Go Home

Gifted to touch,
He gave so much,
Every show,
Each night,
And never lost his touch,

It's Time To Go Home

The pain of the struggle,
was etched in his face,
but the words from his mouth,
reflected God's grace,

It's Time To Go Home

Please Don't Go,
Master of the show,
Brothers gotta work it out,
We free but won't go

It's Time To Go Home

Say It Loud,
We need a theme,
Brothers killing Brothers,
We still Proud,
but we have no hope,
No dreams,

It's Time To Go Home

Dream young man,
Dream young girl,
Be like The GodFather Of Soul,
And conquer this man's world,

It's Time To Go Home

It's official he was prophetic,
Hardest working man in show business,
proclaimed and vetted,

It's Time To Go Home

Now be still, sleep and rest,
prepare to minister your music,
on the highest level yet,

It's Time To Go Home

The author of melody has required your soul,
God knew when he made you,
Soul Brother Number One
you too cold!

It's Time To Go Home

5 comments:

Unknown said...

This is AWESOME, Hammer!!

I love it, will you be releasing that as a dedication song?

If you weren't thinking about it, maybe you should.

Peace & Blessing,
Anita

North said...

Dear MC... a glorious homage, to a man whom inspired you to aspire to greatness of Self... detach from ego; and BE all that you can be...

So few children under our great gods porch today; dream.

MC.. may 2007, be YOU, to offer them a peace-dream, a hope-dream, a DO, until you do it.. dream.

Via music, the gospels, the written word, designs, or paintings... may it BE.. in 2007--that an opening, be it even small.. spread open, enough for all the troubled youth and adults in the world.. to aspire to peaceful intent, compassionate negotiation, and positive movements.

James Brown, was the voice of his day.. you are the voice of ours... WE hear you, out here!!

Love n'peace, North

BE YOUR BEST said...

A beautiful tribute to the Godfather of Soul!

petielicious said...

Sorry for your loss. Our loss.

All through middle school and high school(early to mid 1990s) I used to get DJ Earl Brown to bring a James Brown CD and a Hammer CD to each dance.

James Brown was an inspiration no matter what color you are. I know you were very fond of him and got to interact with him on a personal level most of us in the general public weren't able to get to.

You're next in line to keep the James Brown song and dance tradition alive in today's music scene.

Go get 'em, Hammer.

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