How The East Was Lost

by The Speak Easy

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    "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
    -Henry David Thoreau

    "I know only two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't."
    -General Ulysses S. Grant

    "I just feel like marching, always, when that tune is played."
    -President Abraham Lincoln

    "I do not think this army could survive without music."
    -General Robert E. Lee

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"I have always thought 'Dixie' one of the best tunes I have ever heard. That tune is now federal property and it is good to show the rebels that with us in power, they will be free to hear it again."
-President Abraham Lincoln

"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."
-General George Meade

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."
-General William Tecumseh Sherman

"America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
-President Abraham Lincoln

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released 08 December 2010
Album artwork parodies Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones' How The North Won: A Military History of the Civil War

Samples:

"Wu The People"
(FDR) President Franklin Delano Roosevelt- "Peace Light Dedication Speech"
(ODB) Old Dirty Bastard- "Nigga Please"

"Private Hendrix Calls Reveille/(Not Your) Cup of Coffee"
Private James Marshall Hendrix on The Dick Cavett Show

"The Invention of Dynamite"
Lil' Wayne- Foundation Magazine (Chris Malo)

"John Brown"
Folk song- "John Brown's Body"

"Priorities"
President Dwight D. Eisenhower- "Farewell Address"

"Tear It Up/Take No Pay"
Denzel Washington, Donald Faison, and Matthew Broderick- Scene from "Glory"

Folk songs- "Dixie," "Sherman's March," "Coloured Aristocracy"

"How The East Was Lost"
Folk song tease- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"

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Track Name: Wu The People
(Corduroy Phoenix)
If the RZA was President, I wouldn't be hesitant
To hear what he said or meant, to a certain extent
A Kung Fu Constitution could keep 'em content
Confucian ideals and restitution.
The GZA would say "Obama your days are through"
The Pledge of Allegiance would be 7th Chamber Part Two.
Ghostface Killah on Homeland Security,
Handling that shit you know he wouldn't worry me.
Sec. of Defense Raekwon the Chef
Legalizing weed but there'd be none left.
Declaration, Amendment to the Fifth
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' To Fuck Wit!

(Chorus)
If the Wu Tang took the presidency,
There'd be more shaolin monks and forties for free
If you Wu The People there would be no sequel,
With the Clan In Da Front we could make it equal.

(Turbo)
If the Wu ran the world everything would be allowed,
Except for eating cow. I can see now.
The elite sees that I can
beat these treatise with my chess strate-gies.
That's why they can eat these nuts!
Pay for health care by taxing my blunts!
There's no one stopping me,
You can get a lot for free.
John Locke better keep his glock cocked to protect his private property.
That's how they got to me-
telling me how I ought to be right
got to live my life.
Give me liberty!
Until my liver bleeds
Or give me death
Til my last breath.

(Chorus)
If the Wu Tang took the presidency,
There'd be more shaolin monks and forties for free
If you Wu The People there would be no sequel,
With the Clan In Da Front we could make it equal.

(FDR)
"I dedicate this monument in the name of brotherhood and peace!"

(ODB)
"Nominate me for presidential emcee!"

(BRA the Goat Carcass)
It's the art of the Wu Tang
Perfect the craft, perfect the slang.
Ladeeda BANG!

A new course will initiate,
The hip hop gods now hold the fate.
Slaying emcees swift using Tai Chi blades.
These shaolin monks these shaolin ways.

RZA the scientist and GZA the Genius
RIP ODB even if he ain't the cleanest.

RZA the scientist and GZA the Genius
RIP ODB even if he ain't the cleanest.

The Staten Island intellect ignited the WU-S-A project.
The Staten Island intellect ignited the WU-S-A project.
The Staten Island intellect ignited the WU-S-A project.
Track Name: Private Hendrix Calls Reveille
Dick Cavett: Uh the problem of succeeding is a hard one for you if your basis say is in the blues or something like that and you suddenly make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

Jimi Hendrix: Sometimes it gets to be really easy to sing the blues when you're supposed to be making all this much money. Cause like money is getting to be out of hand now. You know, musicians, especially young cats they get the chance to make all this money and they say, you know, “wow this is fantastic.” And like I said before they lose themselves and forget about the music. They forget about their talents, they forget about the other half of them. So therefore you can sing a whole lot of blues. The more money you make, the more blues sometimes you can sing.
Track Name: (Not Your) Cup of Coffee
Hendrix: But the idea is to use all these hang ups as steps in life. Just like drinking coffee, you don't drink it everyday or else you go into a different scene with it. Like an escape.

Cavett: I don't know but it sounds good.

Turbo:
Most people think coffee's a metaphor for sex
But I drink it to stimulate my intellects
It directs me, gets me through the next week.
But the crash comes quick and it wrecks me.
Cause when I wake up, it's no longer natural
like my sister's make up-- I'm not sure I'll
make it through the day.
Is it okay if I stay around?
Begging for caffeine like a stray hound.
Is anything I say profound?
No. So catch another cup of jo and Turbo's on the go.
Filled the coffee machine with so many dreams that I spilled the beans.
Pour some sugar, go easy on the creams.
Life ain't always what it seems
That's means I can't stay addicted to caffeine
Did the surgeon general just forget to mention?
Coffee's hard on the heart, and it gives you hypertension.

She said “get your hands off of me
I'm not your cup of coffee"
She said “get your hands off of me
I'm not your cup of coffee"

BRA The Goat Carcass:
How do I feel about women right now?
They're like sneaky ninjas. Watch out KA-POW!
They fall under the People category
With the same old story and the glory given to the wrong dude
Time to be rude. Atel's mood is straight fucking crude
Cause I'm not a fan of people
I hear a lot noise and actually no one's equal
Like peeps far inferior that go to a steeple
When women act like winners, that shit is lethal.
Ouch. Ka-pow.

Cavett: Do you consider yourself a disciplined guy? Do you get up every day and work?
Hendrix: I try to get up everyday.
Cavett: That in itself is a discipline.
Hendrix: I'm still trying today.

Corduroy Phoenix:
Gotta pick it up now with these ladies
White and I rap but I'm not Slim Shady
Lately the ladies they've been treating me greatly
This one little girl I know of she's beautiful from the floor up
Dirty blonde, green eyes and she loves to get tore up
One minute I'm relaxing, enjoying the breeze
Next minute I'm next to breathless and I'm on my knees
Don't know much about these women but I'm learning them well
They can lead you to love, or send you to hell.

She said “get your hands off of me!
I'm not your cup of coffee"
Track Name: The Invention of Dynamite
This is the chorus and we feel alright.
This is the chorus and we're dynamite.

BRA The Goat Carcass:
When the beat is bumping, the flow just comes.
Like a light in my dome as bright as the sun.
Oh shit. Yes I think it's an idea
Brewing in the head like a fine tasting beer
But wait
If beer tastes swell
This would have to mean that I walk very well
And I don't
And I won't complain
Never end my life like Kurt Cobain
Try to look forward try to be sain
Yo what just happened my flow just came?
Spunk juice, all up in, spunk juice in the face.

This is the chorus and we feel alright.
This is the chorus and we're dynamite.

Turbo:
I jump on beats feet first.
And stomp like a dinosaur
Proposing prehistoric war
Talking treason to tur-brontosaurus
You're running toward us,
Saying “sic semper tyrannosaurus rex.”
Taking things out of context
And you're next.
No more questions, we just signing checks,
While no one protects, and the result is like rough sex
And that's why we in a wreck.
In the land before time
Before people can rhyme.
I'm like "come get me later”
Cause a comet hit the earth
And I became an alligator

This is the chorus and we feel alright.
This is the chorus and we're dynamite.

Corduroy Phoenix:
I'm in your dreams and I'm one of your worst fears.
You're the Cherokees and I'm the Trail of Tears
Cheers. Drink a couple beers. Come on get near.
Let me tell you about a thing I saw the other day
About suburban sprawl and the endless highway.
Why say live in the burbs, away from the city?
The buildings are so beautiful, the girls so pretty.
Cities are the places where culture thrives.
Don't move out and let that shit die!
City's are the epicenter that's for a fact.
Are you really happy in that cul-de-sac?
Track Name: John Brown
Huddle up close, sit down and listen
You don’t even know what you’re missing.
Once many many many years ago,
There once lived a man we all should know,
Two years before the Civil War fights,
A man took a stand for
Slaves and their rights
In Virginia, the whites had it made though,
This was before the Harpers Ferry raid.
Twenty-two men, several whites, a couple blacks
Tried to run the train of slavery off it’s tracks,
They brought guns and took the town,
Obeying every order from Chief John Brown

John Brown sat down and hatched a plan,
He wanted liberation for the black man,
He assembled his crew and set the course,
The best was to win through force,
They attacked in the dark of night,
The arsenal guards didn’t put up much a fight,
Everyone thought that John was a hellion,
Trying to spark a slave rebellion
People started shooting and things got hot,
Two of John Brown’s sons got shot,
The army came on top was Lee,
who later was the traitor in the confederacy,
John Brown got caught and couldn’t break loose
He was sentenced to die by the end of noose

Some say John Brown was rotten to the core,
That he was the cause of the Civil War,
Because of Mr. Brown, history was made,
He was a freedom fighter at the Harpers Ferry raid

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave;
John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave
John Brown's body lies a mouldering the grave
His soul's marching on!

Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on!
Track Name: Priorities
Eisenhower: "The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex."

Chorus:
Priority is
Priority is
Priority is
Speak Easy!

Corduroy Phoenix: Here's a good question. What are priorities?
Just another fork in the road. We cry over these.
Some gotta grow up where their mom smokes crack.
Others scratch a living in a shotgun shack.
These are priorities. Need to change mine.
Stop thinking about getting to the liquor store on time.
Will I end up getting coffee in the morning?
That shit is weaker than an eviction warning.
That's the human nature of self preservation
Fuck the rest! I'm the best in the nation.
Hope we change. More sooner than the later.
Become the revelation then we live greater.

(Chorus)

Turbo: Prior to these days, we'd say why worry me about my priorities?
Already know the end of the story see.
I used to act like I knew where hell is;
Here on earth, where everybody's selfish.
But I could not tell myself this.
The way people say "don't tread on me."
Instead I see they pull shit steadily.
Now my radical sabbatical's got me mad at the whole world.
Had I know better not to twist it while it twirled
I'd watch it spin
like the news bulletin that says
this just in.
Without priorities
you need discipline!

(Chorus)

Eisenhower: "The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists... Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly...

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research."

BRA The Goat Carcass:
People want to be me but they can't
This is my motto this is my chant.
I do what I want in an instant.
Priority is obviously going to be forever and always Speak Easy.
I wish was the truth but it's not
Try to be on point just like a dot.
If life had an artery, I'd be the clot.
I'm a wise man keep my head ahead.
Dreams of getting famous, so fucking dead!

Eisenhower: "Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow...

We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow...

America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Track Name: How The East Was Lost
(Turbo)
We know how the west was won
George Washington learned how to shoot a gun
And Thomas Jefferson declared the right for everyone
To start their own revolution.

So Good Ole Bobby Lee said
"Abe you're not the boss of me"
Then Abraham said
"Wait I got a plan... we'll call them our equal man"
They both said "Damn."
"Damn!"
And off to war they ran.

(Corduroy Phoenix)

Walking the small world when it's at large
Living my life through Pickett's Charge
Ripping and romping
My feet's are stomping
To the beat from New York to Compton
In this nation the problem we're facing
Having to with pride and patience
How many times have we toed the line?
Only to find we're not divine!
A couple of measure have prevailed
In showing us how together we fail!
So be less arrogant things will be peachy.
I will try to be less preachy.

(Turbo)
And though Lincoln's war was won
John Wilkes Booth still got the gun
That led to assassination.

We know How The West Was Won
Well here's How The East Was Lost
"Mortal man with face of clay
Here tomorrow, and gone today."

(BRA The Goat Carcass)
The turn is mine so I started rapping.
Thought for a minute but nothing happened.
It's like my flow was constipated
Older rap music is so overrated
I listen to the album How The West Was Won
Thought for a minute and had to make fun
of the name that is the game
take something great and make it lame.
The name of this jaun is How The East Was Lost
I am fucking awesome sauce.

Speak Easy will get big... NOT!
Speak Easy will get big... NOT!

Do not give a fuck! BOY!