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05 - The Man Who Must Leave

04 - Mind Your Business

A groovy dance project from the MC/Producer Mercury Waters

07 - Big Brothers

06 - Simple

05 - Pearls

04 - Move It Around

03 - Guadalupe

02 - Good Morning

01 - Circular

Overheard in America is a retelling of all the sexist, racist, colorist and ignorant things we hear in America on a daily basis. It speaks to the fatigue of encountering the hatred and bigotry this country is so good at producing.

Lyrics
Overheard in America


Verse

redbone is the skin tone 
you can keep your dark skin in the friend zone
young lady keep your hem low
they raped you cause you dress like a bimbo

i need my money back tenfold 
no cash just PayPal or Venmo
you ain’t free what you in for 
catching bodies on a boom-bapping instro 

old nigger this is Jim crow 
we keep our coppers on lynch mode
plus we redlined the zip code 
YOU can live where they bust out the windows 

keep buying all the lies that have been sold 
it’s your fault you got the post trauma syndrome 
your kind ain’t inclined to drive a benzo 
niggers only good for rap songs or end zones 


Chorus

this is overheard in America
you ain’t said a word in America that ain’t patently false and made for hysteria

this is overheard in America
you ain’t said a word in America that ain’t patently false and made for hysteria


Verse

who’s that peeking in my window
coronavirus creeping in my lymph nodes
the mask is anti-freedom yeah it’s simple
even if it means  killing all my kinfolk

we want trap slow the tempo
where’s your tattoos on your temple
he won’t sell unless he is a sex symbol 
yeah he cheated on his wife but he a pimp though

he got the violence from Nintendo
now he keeps a rifle in his trench coat
i guess nobody saw the signals
that he would snipe a bully through a pinhole

he would never lie he’s presidential
the loss of life is pure coincidental
he pulled this country up out of the limbo    
plus he keeps the Mexicans out of my rentals


Chorus

this is overheard in America
you ain’t said a word in America that ain’t patently false and made for hysteria

this is overheard in America
you ain’t said a word in America that ain’t patently false and made for hysteria

Overheard in America

Overheard In America

One wonderful Fall recounts the feeling of 2020 where we endured a series of falls, failures, and losses.

Lyrics

## Verse

what do you believe in stand for fall for

put a hacksaw to the lock for

scream fight the power at the top of your lungs 

'til your lock jawed for send your first born son off to start war for

what you thought you knew about you and us

and who you choose to trust is wrong

and your life isn't even worth a leg and an arm

much less a spec of dust 

and hatred ain't dead or even gathering rust

it's gathering an army calmly in private

studying, muttering, covered in violence

crafting the action that shatters the silence

to blast mishaps into fiery defiance

standing on the shoulders of a giant

and still can't see peace on the horizon

deaf ears can't hear calls for alliance

but roars from the jaws of a lion

## Chorus

when the world you stood tall for ends up sideways

the ideas you ride for ain't no highway

and every think piece seems to bring on migraines

and nothing looks clearer to you in truth

I had one wonderful fall

Too out of my mind

one wonderful fall

Too out of my mind

one wonderful fall

Too out of my mind

one wonderful fall    

for you

## Verse

what will you lean on when the pillars of society topple the kings throne

pitchforks itch for an answer til the blue blood from the rich pours

through the carpet of the king’s court

the cry from the queens voice sings forth

and everybody's looking for an answer

the same everybody that ignored the diagnosis of the cancer

no less than hopeless romantics

who perpetrate the same underhanded standard

they call their ability to vanish an advantage

but the flood of information's like the Atlantic

all the eyes are watching so you can't panic

as you sink to the brink like the titanic

harlequins are forced to wipe the face off

and stay in submission to the case law

people are the weapons in the race war

cause white privilege always trumps the race card

## Chorus X2

when the world you stood tall for ends up sideways

the ideas you ride for ain't no highway

and every think piece seems to bring on migraines

and nothing looks clearer to you in truth

I had one wonderful fall

Too out of my mind

one wonderful fall

Too out of my mind

one wonderful fall

Too out of my mind

one wonderful fall    

for you

Mercury Waters - One Wonderful Fall

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Mercury Waters is a DMV born and raised hip hop artist who brings thought provoking lyricism with a grown man sensibility to his decades long career. Waters counts creative rap luminaries like The Roots, Common, and Yasiin Bey among his influences. With a style evolved into its own form, he creates moods, soundscapes and visual pictures that seek to engross, educate, and connect with the listener.

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