deos playing in the next room at the 4am matinee and the phone...that was just noise. I mean noisier than noise should be. Not ear deafening, mind numbing, mentally crushing, membrane sloshing noise. Keithie and his boys walked and talked shit nights but it was always distinct, not chatter.. 'n' jersey girls didn't giggle at the freaks, 'talianos sucking Corona bottles making crashes fill the street, never plugged the void of my nights because the void was silence. Over in Bushwick, the ice cream man pulled his truck over while, shall we say, he got his popsickle sucked. He pulled over his truck but the song kept on, all day, all night. The song means the ice cream guy's gettin' some - it don't even mean ice cream. 'Cause they hear the song and there's no guy selling ice cream from the truck. 'Sides, who got money to be giving kids every time they hear the song woven between the sounds of car horns and latin rhythms. And the ice cream guy gets death threats. Gotta get me a token, make the rumble of the ‘A' my lullaby. Gotta escape to the womb of my room. I never believed in New York nights. I never slept in Manhattan before. 21 years, 16 by the shore. It may have taken a while to get used to the silence, the absence of sound through night at my home but I've never slept in Manhattan before. It hurts. It is hurting my head as I write this. It is making my mind squeeze itself through a tiny doorway onto a massive stage where sound is disconnected from action. Each render themselves tiles in the mosaic. Pretty is the picture from far away. Gotta get me a token, make the rumble of the ‘A' my lullaby. Gotta escape to the womb of my room. I never believed in New York nights. Each tone drifts against the next with nowhere it would rather be. No desire of dominance, no call to signify nothing. Gotta get me a token, make the rumble of the ‘A' my lullaby. Gotta escape to the womb of my room. I never believed i

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trong niggaz in the next room'll cum ...thunder, I make the room rumble ...hen you call me the next day ...of? Didn't you come over here to get fucked?...You ain't come over here for me to be ...You came over here to get fucked

Bring that next-level shit...Chilling next to another chick ly...The next-room's a bed room, you b...ook around, the new room is fancy

I'm starting over like before ...But when I'm lying next to you ...ling at me from the next room ...I'm starting over like before ...But when I'm lying next to you

And over in the next room ...re's comfort in the room you keep hangin' on...need some breathing room

And over in the next room ...re's comfort in the room you keep hangin' on...need some breathing room

And over in the next room ...re's comfort in the room you keep hangin' on...need some breathing room

Listen, positive over negative for the wo...When they reminisce over you, my God ... on the wall in the next room ... unless he's taking over ...When they reminisce over you, for real ...When they reminisce over you, listen

Listen, positive over negative for the wo...When they reminisce over you, my God ... on the wall in the next room ... unless he's taking over ...When they reminisce over you, for real ...When they reminisce over you, listen

Listen, positive over negative for the wo...When they reminisce over you, my God ... on the wall in the next room ... unless he's taking over ...When they reminisce over you, for real ...When they reminisce over you, listen

Listen, positive over negative for the wo...When they reminisce over you, my God ... on the wall in the next room ... unless he's taking over ...When they reminisce over you, for real ...When they reminisce over you, listen

Listen, positive over negative for the wo...When they reminisce over you, my God ... on the wall in the next room ... unless he's taking over ...When they reminisce over you, for real ...When they reminisce over you, listen

Listen, positive over negative for the wo...When they reminisce over you, my God ... on the wall in the next room ... unless he's taking over ...When they reminisce over you, for real ...When they reminisce over you, listen

Listen, positive over negative for the wo...When they reminisce over you, my God ... on the wall in the next room ... unless he's taking over ...When they reminisce over you, for real ...When they reminisce over you, listen