Celebration (2012 Year of the Dragon Version)
Miraculous (Phil Garrison) doing a hip-hop performance at the 2012 Five Branches Chinese New Year Party. 1st song.
Date: 1/20/2012
Venue: Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Video: Chrissy Suits
LYRICS
Verse 1:
Celebration for the Chinese nation
Miraculous, with the incantation
Not a time for moderation, so I’m INXS
Got a New Sensation.
Takin’ you back, to the dawn of creation
From the Wuji: yin and yang separation
Clear rise up like evaporation
Muddy sink down like precipitation.
Life requires their integration
Between two poles lies transformation
Representation of the same situation
Formed by a man and a woman embracin’.
Innovation on the Mic, so amazin’
Much too advanced for the radio station
Illustration of incineration
My exhalation blazin’ like a conflagration.
Rock the whole house: from the attic to the basement
Rock the county: Watsonville to Big Basin
From the ocean floor to the highest elevation
I know you want some more, ’cause it’s a celebration!
Verse 2:
My name’s Philip, people flip when I rip
It’s not Charles Dickens, don’t call me “Pip”
Five Branches, let me give you a tip:
This verbal herbalist always comes well equipped.
Climb aboard my lyrical ship
Take you for a ride, take you on a trip
All right, all engines engage
In this age you can like it on your Facebook page.
Uh-huh. I’m about to do a fly-by
With the rhyme I’m gifted like the Magi
Maybe that’s why you see it in you’re Third Eye
Tell the Daoists I’m the three immortal bird guy.
Up in the sky on the back of a crane
I’m not gettin’ high, man, I’m on another plane.
Yeah, it’s like this and like that
Check the Gleason score ’cause my rhyme’s so fat.
2012 is the Year of the Dragon,
When I say I’m the best, it’s the truth, I’m not braggin’.
Ha! It’s like that and like this
You like the way I rhyme, girl, give me a kiss.
If you feel shy, no problem, you can text me,
You thought I was cute, now you say that I’m sexy.
Verse 3:
It’s hard to believe another year has passed:
Is time moving slow, is time moving fast?
Is time a cycle or a thing we amass?
Just a construct that we try to outlast.
Seconds, minutes, hours, days
Time can be measured in multiple ways
Weeks, months, years, and events
Why’s is so hard livin’ in the present tense?
Dwellin’ in the past on old regret
Or thinkin’ ’bout the future and the stuff you haven’t done yet.
Oh yeah, I got a hot set
(It’s) just a simple fact, like water is wet.
Sometimes writing rhymes is a source of stress
I’m trying to be the best, no more, no less
Need to progress, got me under duress
(But) when I’m on the Mic, never fail to impress.
People wanna know how to rock a good flow
And make the crowd feel it from head to toe
You get a sample of an old drum beat
Cut it into a loop, (and) then hit repeat.
Bounce to the rhythm ’till ya feel the groove
Don’t think about it, just let your mouth move!
Miraculous got nothin’ to prove
My rhyme’s a work of art, they wanna hang it in the Louvre.
Yeah, that’s overseas in Paris
Makin’ MCs take the day off like Ferris.
(Bueller…Bueller)
I subjugate ’em like a ruler.
That’s me: the benevolent sage-king
Versatile on the Mic, never doin’ the same thing
Make the crowd smile, style never a lame thing
Stay for a while, girl, I like how you drain jing.
Verse 4:
Abstract on the track, yeah we’ve reached that junction
Matter fact, Mirac’s raps collapse the wave function.
Whoo! Y’all should think about this:
Before you observed it, it didn’t exist.
It was just a probability
An infinite, potential, possibility
In the Universe, there is no one as ill as me
That’s why y’all be givin’ me the M-I-C.
I wrote this rhyme in another dimension
Brought it back to Earth with the proper intention
Tell your friends, but don’t fail to mention
That I stand out like the solute in a suspension.
*lyrics (c) 2011 Philip G. Garrison
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