Mos Def - U R The One
This is hands down one of the realest songs ever wrote. I mean if he actually even wrote this because it sounds straight from the heart. Love is a beautiful thing but relationships can be a completely different story. I told my friend I was going to do this song, but when she said “I LOVE that song” on im, I already knew she could write something even better right now. So… 10 mins. later here you go.
I am one that loves different sounds IN music. I always try to listen for the hidden harmonica in the bathroom that Johnny was playing to make a melody better than the rest. Or that random triangle that you hear in the chorus that you wait for so that you can pretend you were there when it happened. So when I heard this song for the first time and heard all the weird sounds that made it sound like urban futuristic 70s funk, and actually listened to the lyrics (which is something I don’t do), I played it about 50 times and held up a lighter in respect for an awesome composure of this song.
Mos Def has such a cool swagger anyway, so it was fresh to hear it come out in his lyrics and in the melody. But of course when you have a cool, calm persona, you still get mixed up with fucked up people, and get in fucked up situations. And it seems like how my life ends up, whether in friendships or love (or like). Things seem real good at first, and then BAM, you wonder how you got in this crazy ass situation with a crazy person. Then you look at TV, look at movies, and you wonder if subliminally you have been living your life to live out this dramatic start to finish. You see how that thin line between love and hate can fade and then reappear again. You see it as a dream and then you wonder why you are stuck in a corner somewhere crying with a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label in your hand.
Questions keep coming like 90 mph, you wondering what’s happened, how life turned out this way, why you keep getting in the same situations again, why you keep asking the same questions. And then, why you ended up there again… mmm… regretting everything, the good the bad, the weird, the understandable. That’s why it’s perfect that Mos is so eloquently communicative with his words whether it made sense or was hurtful or what, and build up this climax of emotions, and questions and wanting and needing..
nahh..
Then you realize there is nothing else left to do, mysteries and all of love, loss and laughter, and all this can get summed up into two words:
FUUUUCK YOUUUU!!!
But it gets better, the person is also a fucker.. ha ha.. yeah, it’s classic, and they got you weeping (3 stages past crying). You know you don’t mean to be THAT harsh, but you say whatever you need to, becuase that’s what you meant at the time. And even after all of that you still want the person back, right? How could that be?
You’re right Mos, it IS a dangerous necessity…
Peace.
You are the one
You’re the ooooone!
Other brothers just don’t know
You got to feel me on this one man
So real
I’m so sin-serious about it, you know?
I know, I know more than a few is gonna relate
So much more than a few (fa-really real)
So much more (on the really real!)
When it started I knew it was trouble
But you know me
Them “hard an’ e’rythings” can’t hold me (you love, hardhead)
I need some shit straight out the movies
DRAMA
Warm to the touch, hot mama
You put me all in like launch jeans and scama
You was Mrs. Mine
So fine
Went from “we gonna conquer it all”
To “nigga I’ma see you in court”
I woulda never thought (damn)
I guess I better think again (you know?)
OK, now the shit is really sinking in
We ain’t just divorced
We ain’t even fucking friends
Cause in the end it was all about the ends
But fuck that I know it gotta be more to it
Held up with bitter hate with crosses all through it
And when I looked, what did I see?
You on the other end crying like me
Expression on your face like, “how could this be?”
That’s what I’m asking, “what the fuck happened?”
How could all the magic and passion just vanish (c’mon)
Went from outsanding, to makin’ me shout, “Dammit!”
Can’t explain the changes, behavior’s is outlandish
Now I’m just stuck in the road feeling stranded
I’m in the dark wishing for the answers
On some ol’ “Biggie gimme one more chance” shit
When we met your face so brown
Ya ass so round, of course I’m so down
Wish I knew then what the fuck I know now
Couldn’t read the signs in the road: “SLOW DOWN!”
I’m too deep in the road now
Got me pulling over getting smoked out
Fighting tears that I can’t hold down
Can’t believe it, this fucka’s got me weeping
I keep it a secret so my friends won’t peep it (live man?)
But late in the evening I’m up, my chest heaving
I’m reaching in the dark and I’m looking for the reason
(WHY!)
Did our love have to die?
You and I were so fucking fly
Can’t get it off my mind
The things that made me smile now make me cry
You are the one
You’re the one!
FUCK YOU!!
I wish we never met, I wish we never kissed
I wish we never touched (I swear to God)
I wish I didn’t love you so much
I wish I could forget how feel, how you f—
(Damn) That’s a lie
The shit that made me smile, now make me cry
You are the one
You’re the one!
FUCK YOU!!
Sometime I wish we’d come back
Man, I wish we’d come back
(Memories!)—No lie
For real?
Fuck that
No, for real
It’s a dangerous necessity, it’s a world famous mystery
Love
That’s it
Peace!
