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A Kind Of Blues

by Joel Van Dijk

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1.
POP Machine 03:17
I'm the bad muthaf(*&^ gon fill up all of your radio waves I'm the big bad monster/single dropper constantly on the stereo fades Said I don't care what you like and I don't care what you need I'm your POP Machine I'm the pusherman fanmaker deal breaker, labels are my family man I'm the dancebeat synthesizer mesmerizer advertisers left and right I take a bad song and make it good I take a bad song and make it last I'm your POP Machine It's the same thing over again It's a pretty girl with a big ol grin And imma make sure that she win And it don't take much, because I'm in and all she gotta do is show that skin and I'll do the rest with my media spin cuz I'm your POP Machine What makes it POP is that you heard it before It's the same chord change I-V-VI-IV It's saw synth and four on the floor It's a POP Hit baby, whatchya looking for? cuz I'm your POP Machine
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Road Again 04:16
Trains Planes and Automobiles Do ya know just how I feel On the road again On the road again I ain't been home in days But I know that I'll get paid On the road again On the road again Do I do it for fame or money? I don't know but I needs my honey Can't wait to see her face when I When I win this race in these Trains Planes and Automobiles Can you hear those spinning wheels? Coming to a city near you This is how we do C'mon world Here we come Cuz All Around the world we go Leaving our friends to roam And every now and then we come home And we're coming on back to you
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I don't have favor but I've got style You can not savor cuz you're chewing on candy all the time I've got flavor that's all my own You might like later But until then imma keep on singing My Song oh My Song It's My Song and this one's all about me My Song oh My Song It's my song and imma keep on singing My Song oh My Song But won't you sing it with me My Song oh My Song And imma keep on singin it This music sets me free so I can share with you My heart and soul inside so imma keep on singing (Chorus) And Imma keep on singing Till the radio keeps on spinning my song Till the radio keeps on spinning it, keeps on spinning it Till the radio keeps on spinning MY SONG Till the radio keeps on spinning then you might like it then You might like it then Wafeek: I done made up my flow And it's my own So it's my glow When I get my shine on Take it back from downloads to vinyl Soundcloud to cyphers Sounds like survival My arrival riding the revival of real rap And it's high time that we did that A disciple is my vocation and my eyes low As Fivel, with bible papers So imma slow it down, they say imma poet how To explain what I feel when I wrote it down, gotta say what I feel cuz I own it now My moment is over again, starting over again I don't where it ends or If it ever does or if it never was in the first place From my death til my birth date It's my song Oh I'm gonna keep on singing it Oh I'm gonna keep on singing it
4.
FreeTrain 03:54
I wanna ride on that Freetrain I see a flag flying over my head I see the news and it's wanting me led I see a man and he's wanting me dead for the actions of a monster that's under my bed I don't want nothing to do with this flag See the news aint nothing but bad I love my brother and it's making me sad Cuz we both want to ride but it's moving too fast I wanna ride on that Freetrain The revolution won't be televised For the man in the screen is telling you lies Burning images deep down into your eyes Putting thoughts where they weren't you've got to realize For the screen is a scene feeding into the dream Writing stories of a fear that you've never seen So get up off your feet and onto the street Feel the rythm of the train going down the street I wanna ride on that Freetrain
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Revolve 03:43
It's all in your head, it's all in your mind It's all in your heart, it's in your behind revolution I see it going down in the east side land Blame the man at the top of the stand revolution let me hear you sing it goes tic tic tic tic see the wheel spin, revolution tic toc tic toc how we gonna win is evolution the greatest gift of all is inside so follow the youth to the other side of evolution let me hear you sing it goes tic toc tic toc see the wheel spin revolution tic toc tic toc how we gonna win is evolution
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WHEREVER I GO Said I miss you Want to hold you in my arms again Said I miss you Want to feel the warmth of your heart again Here I go again Following the wind Wherever I Go Here I go again Missing my best friend Wherever I Go Wherever I Go Said I miss you Want to go back to the start again Said I miss you, everything about you Wish that we could start new, like I never left your side Here I go again Following the wind Wherever I Go Here I go again Missing my best friend Wherever I Go Wherever I Go I'll be missing you
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Be Yourself 03:05
Make it funky, Make it all right Make you feel good do it all night Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Be Yourself Be Yourself Be Yourself Be Your Be Yourself and nobody else cuz No-one's gonna do it for you No right no wrong way to sing this song A doobiedoobiedoobatydoo I do what I do I do what I do I do it for myself and I do it for you Cuz if I can't be happy then I cannot make you too So I'm just gonna dance Be yourself What you got to lose Be yourself What you got to lose Got to be your self
10.
The Tale 01:45
That boy Joel Van Dijk came by one day with a smirk on his face, and a joint in his back pocket. He had his own kind of blues, and it wasn't your daddy's blues no sir. An eclectic brew ripe with knob twists, crafty changes, and his patented shit-chicken-licks with plenty of THAT signature sauce. He landed on this planet to wage a war of his own brand, equipped with an artillery of soul. But it wasn't without some adversity, some severe controversy from the opposing forces. The laws of tradition, if you will, did not bare well in his favor. He wanted a change, and not everyone was ready for what he had to say. He would do anything to get their attention, as he had the voice and answers they desperately wanted to hear (I know I was!). He turned to the blues to spread his gospel, reaching deep in his nostalgic pockets and using it's "bend on modern to ear" to get his message heard by the already, ever assuming public. Once he did, and he really did, he had the whole country dancing to his groove. They wanted the blues, and his kind of blues was the perfect sound. (laugh), thanks for listening, take care now.
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All Blues 04:30
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I can't get outta bed I can't move my legs I'm stuck in my head I got the blues and I don't know what to do I don't wanna sit here crying and looking in the mirror And wasting my time No I want to put on my dancing shoes, I want to go outside and see the sunshine Cuz everybody has the blues Sometimes (it's how you deal with it) It's a kind of blues I'm motivated by nothing Got novocaine in my conscious I rose again from those frozen flames to keep coke in cane in my stomach That soda making me nauseous I wrote the rain that won't plummet My broken slang is one hundred I know the game it's all token fame Got flows to sang, got shows to bang, got O's to slang, got foes to change So I go insane, do the same thing twice And the same thing happen, no this can't be life But it is though, i'mma Huxtable living like a Winslow Uncomfortable, looking out the window Freedom is like, a vegan asking what beefing is like We all starving, struggling to prove So much in the window but nothing in the room But nintendo, and t.v. And websites trynna deceive me It's easy watching the news It leave me with a different kinda blues So you stuck with me out here in suck city Such pity that you might as well flux with me Cuz everybody has the blues Sometimes (it's how you deal with it) It's a kind of blues I gotta ride with the truth on my shoulder Feel the rythm of my heart taking over For the beauty of the soul I'm a soldier But I won't fight for the new world order sometimes I get the blues seeing what my brothers do see what they do to eachother sometimes I watch the news but they don't tell the truth so come on sing the blues to me and I will sing my blues to you It's a kind of blues It's a kind of blues
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This is my bues about nothing Nothing at all Cuz today I ain't got nuthin to sing about So I'm just gonna play my guitar Cuz I ain't got nothin to sing about
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Produced by Joel Van Dijk
Mastered by Adam Berg @ Manifest Music Productions
Artword by Marcus A McDougald & Zoe Van Dijk

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released December 1, 2012

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Joel Van Dijk Los Angeles, California

Artist * Guitarist * Producer based in Los Angeles with new album "Here Now" coming August 13th

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