THE KONGQUEST

This has been one of my favorite songs for a while now. At first, you may think the song is about love but it’s not the love you would expect. Sam Sparro crytically spins some existential flavor into this catchy song that will keep you playing it on repeat.

Black and Gold - Sam Sparro

If the fish swam out of the ocean
and grew legs and they started walking
and the apes climbed down from the trees
and grew tall and they started talking

and the stars fell out of the sky
and my tears rolled into the ocean.
Now I’m looking for a reason why
you even set my world into motion.

Cause if you’re not really here
then the stars don’t even matter.
Now I’m filled to the top with fear
but it’s all just a bunch of matter.
Cause if you’re not really here
then I don’t want to be either.
I wanna be next to you.

Black and gold
Black and gold
Black and gold

I looked up into the night sky
and see a thousand eyes staring back
and all around these golden beacons
I see nothing but black.

I feel a way of something beyond them
I don’t see what I can feel.
If vision is the only validation
then most of my life isn’t real.

Cause if you’re not really here
then the stars don’t even matter.
Now I’m filled to the top with fear
but it’s all just a bunch of matter.
Cause if you’re not really here
then I don’t want to be either.
I wanna be next to you.

Black and gold
Black and gold
Black and gold

I was driving home yesterday listening to KEXP (91.5FM), which is an awesome independent radio station in the New York Metro Area, and found this amazing gem of a song! It’s go soul and it’s got a good message. I love songs who keep it badass while spewing social commentary that shows how ridiculous human beings are. Thank you Dave Bartholomew for keeping it real.

The Monkey - Dave Bartholomew

The monkey speaks his mind

And three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be
Said one to other now listen, you two
“There’s a certain rumour that just can’t be true
That man descended from our noble race
Why, the very idea is a big disgrace, yea”
No monkey ever deserted his wife
Starved her baby and ruined her life

Yea, the monkey speaks his mind

And you’ve never known a mother monk
To leave her babies with others to bunk
And passed them on from one to another
‘Til they scarcely knew which was their mother
Yea, the monkey speak his mind

And another thing you will never see
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree
And let all the coconuts go to waste
Forbidding other monkeys to come and taste
Why, if I put a fence around this tree
Starvation would force you to steal from me

Yea, the monkey speaks his mind

Here’s another thing a monkey won’t do
Go out on a night and get all in a stew
Or use a gun or a club or a knife
And take another monkey’s life
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum
But, brothers, from us he did not come

Yea, the monkey speaks his mind
Yea, now the monkey speaks his mind