Music
Love Kamikaze
Love Me Unique
You see I light up the night like fireworks after dark
open the night up at candlestick park
it's time to get down low down on the show down
so we can throw down and get together
The spearhead funk is in the air
throw up your hands like you just don't care
and rub up close to your neighbour
this is the time for you to savour
suck it slow like a life saver
as always the DJ's the saviour
flip the switch because I've missed you
in the darkness I like to kiss you
neck to neck sweat steaming wet
hips rub-a-dub and feel a pounding in my chest
Boom boom feel the heart beat
aah smells so sweet
like a fresh cut citrus mango juicy and delicious
I like to sink into you
lava lamp watch and do your voodoo
wiggle it from side to side
crack your back from the inside
you're my ticket
feel me get wicked
(Chorus)
Boom boom feel the heart beat
smells so sweet
first time love me unique
from tip top and down to my feet
boom boom feel the heart beat
smells so sweet
first time love me unique
boom two me and you
Visualise feel the heat
its too hot to sleep under the sheet
watch the fan circle overhead
blowing air down to your bed
see your like mist on my skin
alcohol burnin' in
openin' my pours up
openin' doors up
open doors up so close up
I can hear your breathin' so revealing
peeling off you tank top sit on top
sit on top find the right spot
soft lips warm tongue
enter me like reefer in my lungs
exhale
touch me like the blind read brail
you liberate this man
but my love ain't for sale
(chorus)
See I remember when we meet
at the Chinese restaurant
eating my pots ? and a plate of egg fo yung
I was sprung by the way that you handled yourself
when I looked at you dumb
no artificial flavours and no artificial fronts
you were smooth like I imagined you to be
I'd be fool to ever let you get away from me
back then we fumbled through the first formalities
now I'm feeling for your neck
don't ever set me free
don't ever set me free
cause it's just you and me
(chorus)
You make my heart beat
you make me feel so free
you make my heart beat
to the disco beat
What Happens Next
All of us are winners and all are beginners
All of us are sinners and head spinners
Some are fatter and some are thinners
Some are thieves some are dentists
And inventors, typesetters, trend setters, translators of lost tongues
Spoken words and beating drums in the head and in the sun
Beating from the chest of the proud
Guerrilla tactics and pick up the crowd
Pick a boom or thunder cloud
Play the bass and play it loud
(Chorus)
Cause you can never tell what happens next
Every minute of your life you better be your best
People like you are above the rest
Never stop just hold your breath
Cause you can never tell what happens next
Every minute of your life you better be your best
People like you are above the rest
Never stop just hold your breath
When the beat sounds great for the big sound through the day
Everything I see is all us for me mentality is this society
I did it my way so that makes it OK
Who gives a ... what the ancestors say
Tomorrow won't be here anyway
Run away life's just a matinee
The world around is in such a disarray
I'm on a holiday so I can't communicate
I'll be chewin a plate on Sandro Pae a rollin' Chevrolet on the milky way
OK OK then doomsday
OK OK OK OK
Some people only want to sample some silly pop songs
I look around me and they're making dough
What's wrong with that if you need to know
Your actions are all you can own
You can only take what you call home
(chorus)
People in the front if you wanna bump say
Don't stop til the Mardi gras
Pople in the back if you wanna clap say
Don't stop til the Mardi gras
People in the middle if you wanna wiggle say
Don't stop til the Mardi gras
People in the side if you wanna glide say
Don't stop til the Mardi gras
Commericalism conservatism has risen to an all time high
You wonder why there is suicide or wonder why they're drivin' by
Have to think back walking bare foot in the grass
now I'm walking with my toes in the glass
Three strikes used to be a baseball class
Now its twenty five years on your ass
But in the spring time a different thing a time
All of a sudden like a push of a button
Stay Human
Starvation is the creation of the devil, a rebel
I'm bringin' food to the people like a widow
bringin' flowers to a grave in the middle
of the city isolation is a riddle
to be surrounded by a million other people
but to feel alone like a tree in a desert
dried up like the skin of a lizard
but full of colour like the spots of a leopard
drum and bass pull me in like a shepherd
scratch my itch like a needle on a record
full of life like a man gone to Mecca
sky high like an eagle up soaring
I speak low but I'm like a lion roaring
baritone like a Robeson recordin'
I'm givin' thanks for bein' human every morning
(chorus)
Because the streets are alive with the sound of Boom Bap
can I hear it once again
Boom Bap tell your neighbour tell afriend
every box gotta right to be bomin'
because the streets are alive with the sound of Boom Bap
can I hear it once again
Boom Bap tell your neighbour tell a friend
Every flower got a right to be boomin'
Be resistant
the negativity we keep it at a distance
call for backup and I'll give you some assistance
like a lifesaver deep in the ocean
stay afloat here upon the funky motion
rock and roll upon the waves of the season
hold your breath and your underwater breathin'
To be rhymin' without a real reason
is to claim but not to practice a religon
if television is the drug of the nation
satellite is immaculate reception
beaming in they can look and they can listen
so you see don't believe in the system
to legalize you or give you your freedom
you want rights ask em', they'll read em'
but every flower got a right to be bloomin'
stay human
(chorus)
All the freaky people make the beauty of the world
You see Y2K ya know is a moment
in time we find that we can open
up a heart that's locked or been broken
by the pain of words not spoken
or shot by guns a still smokin'
Cartwrights out on the Ponderosa
or drive by bang in Testarossa
we need to heed the words of Dalai Lama
or at least the words of yo mama
take a mental trip to the Bahamas
steam your body in a stereo sauna, sauna, comma
(chorus)
I Wish I Could Be You
(Chorus)
I wish that I could be you,
for a moment or two.
And you could be me ,
if you wanted to see,
what it's like in my shoes.
Chillin' on a corner cause I gotta kill an hour.
I see a pretty sister over purchasing some flowers.
She walks into the grocery, so I take a step and follow.
She gives me funny feelings in my throat and so I swallow.
Afraid to approach her, I stand goofy in the isle.
Shopkeeper starring, but he don't give me know smile.
He says,"customers only boy, leave if your not buying."
I turn around to him and say,
(Chorus)
Outside a night club, got know invitation.
A limosine pulls up, ya know it's causing made comotion.
So I move alittle closer, maybe see a superstar.
Just to catch a glimpse of who's coming out the car.
A man steps out, you know he's dress up like Mac the knife.
He had a taste of the plastic things in life.
Mad clothes, fine women, spent the rest on gettig high.
Laughed at other folks along the way just gettig by.
I eased up through the crowd just so I could see his face.
His two security goons come knock me on my ace.
I say," Yo man you ain't gotta do that, I ain't trying to rock your world."
And at that same moment I see that pretty girl.
The one from the grocery, I saw buying flowers.
Steps out the limo and her face looks kind of sour.
Plastic man grabs her arm and walks away.
I sit up, look at him and say'
(Chorus)
That girl looks so ... fine,
I thought I'd never get her off my mind.
So I walk around to the back alley,
Try to sneek into the party.
I zoom in like binoculars on something that did shock me.
That plastic man he had that girl up against the wall.
He was all up in her face, his fist up in a ball.
I said,"Yo man you better leave that nice young girl alone."
And he smacked her one more time and said,"oh what, you want some."
He took a swing at me,
I ducked, hit him with an uppercut,
knocked him on his butt like he got struck by mac the truck.
He grabbed the sisters shoulders
and then he slammed her to the ground.
Crack, a deadly sound, red blood soiled the ground.
Sister wounded, I took in my arms.
I started praying that she would not be gones.
I heard sirens going off in my head,
and I whispered in her ear and said,
(Chorus 2)
I wish I could be you,
for a moment or two,
and you could be me if you wanted to see
just what I think of you.
Every Single Soul
(chorus)
No matter where I roam
whoa-oh I know every single soul is poem
written on the back of God's hand
Ya see Moms and Pops be copulatin'
plantin' seeds and pickin' weeds for another season
another reason for livin' another reason for givin'
another reason for lovin' and tryin' stay out of prison
'cause everything in life can't be nice and
everything you want can't be got
but the lessons on patient be causing the pressure to rise
and make some people suicidal
Oh no! another soul, has lost control
we pull him back into the fold
he got strung out on the material
all the superficial initials upon his clothes
they make me wanna go Sprewell
every time I see my family locked in jail
uh-huh, the economical can be demonical
keep love in your soul
(chorus)
Ya see people are so beautiful in love
that's why I'm reminded of life's precious moments every time
I see lovers walkin' by in the park
close my eyes and I stop reminisce
to see a little baby suckin' on his mama's
milk-ey silky smoothness of a lovin' caress holdin' baby to breast
and blessin' the world with another to test, test, test
oh-yes, oh-yes Bom-bom!
I'd like to sing a little song
dedicated to the people who would like to sing along
'cause every little song has little beats and notes
like every little lake has little trees and boats
all people deserve a safe and warm home
'cause every single soul is a poem
(chorus)
Right from the start in a world torn apart
a baby's love leaves finger prints upon the heart
so many think it, but never say it
"why bring a child to this planet full of hatred?"
they might not make it like the youngest departed
or worst of all they might become a part of it
involved in it, perpetuating violence, violence
and growing up in silence
seein' things they don't know how to deal with
and learnin' ways, to try to cope with it
cope with it, cope with it
and not lose hope
(chorus)
Keepin' It Natura
When we first meet Hollywood couldn't have writ
another script better than this
zoom and close up on the first kiss
this was a feeling in my body you know
ecstasy love scenes on the picture show
with your best foot forward you know
showing all the things that I want you to know
now it seems like them two dreams we can't realise
real life, real real life
showing its head bobbing big real strife
expectations, missed appointments, disappointments, arguments
flares up, feels rough
do it up I know we grow
(chorus)
It ain't logical it ain't even in what you know
It ain't factual
keepin' it natural
lets stop making it difficult
even when its sexual
let it flow gradual
keepin' it natural
At times like this I want to brush away all of confusion
just to let you know that we can find a solution
motion or roller coastin' its hard to keep your heart open
saying things you later regret
through it all I'll never forget
how on the telephone we'll be talking so much
you saying things that would make the operator blush
the way you're whispering I hope nobodies listening
you make my body wet like Lake Michigan
it's never sex that leaves a weight on my chest
every time we're together like the day that we met
oh yes I wait for only you until death
more precious than breath I'll always protect
(chorus)
I don't want to stop being with you
I never stop needing you
or believing in you
I thank you for the things you do
tbd
A Minutes All I Need
A minutes all I need
To say these things to you
I'm here and then I disappear from view
It's true
You don't ever come to me
In the middle of the night no more
You don't ever see my eyes - hold me tight no more
No sleep can bring me solitude
From the pain we put each other through
But I couldn’t stop the way I think and feel for you
A minutes all I need
To say these things to you
I'm here and then I disappear from view
It's true
I love like the desert love the rain
I love you like alcohol loves pain
I love you like the morning loves the sun
I love you like one and one loves making one
I love you like the street life loves the night
I love you like lovers sometimes love to fight
I love you like hot oil loves to burn
I love you like making love loves taking turns
A minutes all I need
To say these things to you
I'm here and then I disappear from view
It's true
Don't forget me when I'm gone
Don't you let me be gone too long?
Don't forget me when I'm gone
Don't you let me be gone too long
Love Me Unique
You see I light up the night like fireworks after dark
open the night up at candlestick park
it's time to get down low down on the show down
so we can throw down and get together
The spearhead funk is in the air
throw up your hands like you just don't care
and rub up close to your neighbour
this is the time for you to savour
suck it slow like a life saver
as always the DJ's the saviour
flip the switch because I've missed you
in the darkness I like to kiss you
neck to neck sweat steaming wet
hips rub-a-dub and feel a pounding in my chest
Boom boom feel the heart beat
aah smells so sweet
like a fresh cut citrus mango juicy and delicious
I like to sink into you
lava lamp watch and do your voodoo
wiggle it from side to side
crack your back from the inside
you're my ticket
feel me get wicked
(Chorus)
Boom boom feel the heart beat
smells so sweet
first time love me unique
from tip top and down to my feet
boom boom feel the heart beat
smells so sweet
first time love me unique
boom two me and you
Visualise feel the heat
its too hot to sleep under the sheet
watch the fan circle overhead
blowing air down to your bed
see your like mist on my skin
alcohol burnin' in
openin' my pours up
openin' doors up
open doors up so close up
I can hear your breathin' so revealing
peeling off you tank top sit on top
sit on top find the right spot
soft lips warm tongue
enter me like reefer in my lungs
exhale
touch me like the blind read brail
you liberate this man
but my love ain't for sale
(chorus)
See I remember when we meet
at the Chinese restaurant
eating my pots ? and a plate of egg fo yung
I was sprung by the way that you handled yourself
when I looked at you dumb
no artificial flavours and no artificial fronts
you were smooth like I imagined you to be
I'd be fool to ever let you get away from me
back then we fumbled through the first formalities
now I'm feeling for your neck
don't ever set me free
don't ever set me free
cause it's just you and me
(chorus)
You make my heart beat
you make me feel so free
you make my heart beat
to the disco beat
5th Release on Boo Boo Wax
Produced By: Michael Franti
Mixed By: Michael Franti, DJ Choco
Mastered By: Eddy Schreyer (Oasis Mastering)
Michael Franti - Vocals, Guitar
Carl Young - Bass, Keyboards
Sandra Manning - Keyboards
Dave Shul - Guitar
Roberto Quintana - Percussion
DJ Choco - Programming, Scratching
Background Vocals - Azeem, Tony Moses, Trinna Simmons, Michelle Weeks
While moving location of his recording studio, the Sugar Shack, Michael Franti stumbled over a box of jewels with various unreleased versions of songs from past Spearhead sessions for Home, Chocolate Supa Highway and Stay Human.
Love Kamikaze: The Lost Sex Singles (and collector re-mixes.) "The songs on the album are not all about sex and love lyrically," Michael says, "some mixes were chosen because of the sensuality of the rhythm and heaviness of the bass." The result is a lush sounding album that is erotic in it's sound, that takes a brave look at love lost and found. "This album is a historic reference point for me. Hearing these songs again brings up a lot of emotion for me, because it was a time of great change in my life."
The Lost Sex Singles is a compilation of songs about love and sex that Franti felt didn't belong or were too different than his politically themed albums. The response toward the live performances of these unreleased songs always garnered massive fan response and requests for recorded versions, so when Franti stumbled upon the box of alternate mixes and unreleased material, it was a sure sign to put out some more love and music into the world.
