#ThursdayFiveList
#TheRecovering

1. Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (1967) : https://youtu.be/Gn6SNbTD0_Q?feature=shared

"Now once I was downhearted
Disappointment was my closest friend
But then you came and it soon departed
And you know he never showed his face again"

2. Jackie Wilson - You brought a change in me (1969) : https://youtu.be/YHokO1AUgSk?feature=shared

"Making promises I never meant
Came the day, you change my look"

3. Denzel Curry - Black Balloons (on his 3rd album TA13OO, 2018) : https://youtu.be/Hr2b5TG54fE?feature=shared

"Two thousand feet, a thousand steps
I let it all sink to one thousand depths
Soon black balloons pop
Let it be the day the pain stop"

4. Denzel Curry - Automatic (on his 4rth album Zuu, 2019) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIqm5-3dkAU

"Used to be on LSD, but now my life is all a trip
Never went to college, at my shows I make a scholarship"

5. Cléoma Breaux - Prends donc courage (1929) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04MNPB1H18o

"L’amour, c’est bien dur d’abandonner, oui
Serait donc autant plus dur pour moi
'Donc courage
Prends donc courage"

#Soul #Rap #Trap #Florida #Louisiana #Cajun #Accordion #JackieWilson #DenzelCurry #CleomaBreaux #JoeFalcon

"A melody drifts through shuddering cicadas and traffic rumbling on 35.

I can’t make it out — it is far but moving closer."

#weather #chickadees #birds #HackberryHop #music #ghosts #poetry #cajun #CleomaBreaux #JoeFalcon

https://madpiratemayday.substack.com/p/distant-music-fading-ghosts