Modern Day Folk

We the modern day folk singers, even if

The old folk singers think we're just dope slingers

Ode to the idiom and the flow gideon

My ear a melody net yet there's no singing em

Some are not kidding they're puzzled at how we talk

I tell it's not talk, like cheese and chalk

And we walk without fear in the ground we tread

And it's flawed cos you're hearing all the thoughts goin round my head

Where paradox and respect wed

And I work to my catalogue not my nest egg

And the wordplay is direct and unashamed

Taken in all the frame with a ridiculous name

So many of us made a claim

Some soared so high

Plenty fell off like a shot down plane

The wind blowing your bridge over troubled waters down

But don't worry we'll sort it out

And You've got to be engaged

You're not just listening to your mates

We're trying to save the world

A brave new world, I love that bitter taste

And you've got to be engaged

It's not a grudge match every day

It's just life in all it's phases

Cos no folk song ever saved us

Like A Tribe Called Quest said, it's all expected

Things will get hectic, change is a threat like when Dylan went electric

Cos we all affected, directed, defected

In puffy chested but then out dejected

No massage for every bad back

It isn't Hollywood, it's just Mad Max

It isn't the serum to get rid of your anthrax

No Mother Teresa it's just the beat of a damn track

I don't really care for half of these MCs

But some of them are like the path of a set-piece

All of it and more we can't let you get sleep

No relationship was started on a wet dream

So we knock down doors and we rock our jaws

And we don't turn our back if it's not our cause

Stand and stare upward form the ground floor

Get up, what you down for?

And You've got to be engaged

You're not just listening to your mates

We're trying to save the world

A brave new world, I love that bitter taste

And you've got to be engaged

It's not a grudge match every day

It's just life in all it's phases

Cos no folk song ever saved us

And You've got to be engaged

You're not just listening to your mates

We're trying to save the world

A brave new world, I love that bitter taste

And you've got to be engaged

It's not a grudge match every day

It's just life in all it's phases

Cos no folk song ever saved us

It's really not that profound, the way a phrase

Knocks you down to others it's nothing more than a background

Some are weak at the knees at that sound

I rewind the song and sit down now

Constantly flip between the FM stations

The jocks spruik the next sensations

But I don't care about the next sensations

I'm sorry if I left you waiting