Canvas To The Frame

from Live Recordings by Adeem the Artist

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recorded live on the WDVX Blue Plate Special; unreleased

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I was on a downward spiral for several months of shows
Lashing out at listeners in the catacombs below
And in the vast and present darkness, you were a flickering light
Sending out love like signals from a satellite
 
And I am not a sentimental man these days
I am a mass of blood and passion
I am not a well-designed maze
I am not who I thought I’d be at twenty eight
I am stumbling blindly from the canvas to the frame
 
You were introspective in the letters that you wrote
Didn’t care for America or a promissory note
And out there on the ocean we were both drifting along
On rafts made of our elders as they fled from Babylon
 
And you are not tethered to the earth these days
You are a mass of stars and poetry
Rising from the clay
You are not all of these self-ascribed names
You are art stumbling blindly from the canvas to the frame
 
All these photographs and artifacts watching life behind the glass
It is our task to find the cracks and make our way through
I found life in high definition
Beyond the prison of a timeline I was given
Our life is not a public exhibition
Stripping off the weight of given names,
We are stumbling blindly from the canvas to the frame

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from Live Recordings, released July 11, 2017

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Adeem is a seventh-generation Carolinian, a makeshift poet, singer-songwriter, storyteller, and blue-collar Artist.

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