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Hakeem Olajuwon

by The Tomes

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'Hakeem Olajuwon' is a metaphorical journey of how lead singer Jeff Paxton and rapper Kevin Hritz came to call Houston, TX home.

lyrics

San Francisco, California heartbreak
Driving south for that California milkshake
Joni Mitchell, Kerouac, sunshine
State line, they told me, "Right place, wrong time."

I think I'm having an energy crisis, now I'm walking towards the door.

Colorado, Rocky Mountain bunny slope
Plaid shirt, red dirt, stable isotope
Mile high, you've been suited, been tied
Deep fried, you've been deep dark freeze dried

I think I'm having an energy crisis, now I'm walking towards the door

H-town, Clutch City, off the backboard
Hakeem Olajuwon, 1994
Rigoberto, it says it on my nametag
See, I am new here. I'm running from the jetlag.

I think I'm having an energy crisis
I'm a flying candelabra
I am unplugged, sunkissed
I think I'm having an energy crisis
Now I'm walking towards the door

Mic check, metropolis on my back
Y'all can saddle the silhouettes as I slip into the sunset
Lion turtle, body surfing, curled in the current like cursive
Graffiti murals unfurled, memorials to the murdered
Superimposed on my person
But I've been shouldering burdens
Not sipping on lean, this is "lean on me"
We, the unheard and hurting
Grew up a bike ride from the beach
But the insides beat the streets
And Black Star's "Respiration"
Soundtracked the struggle to me
But still a brother can't breathe
So I'm on my knees, on my feet
Civil disobedient sixteens
Since the city of six strings
Microphone in the hand, Land of the Free
The plan of my man D
All black, John Cash in Nash
Run DMC in queens
Scarface in the H, clutch like Hakeem the Dream
I glide like Clyde, with each stride I'm fly
Like breakers slide on the hard court at halftime
And if home is where the heart is
This is definitely mine

credits

released February 27, 2016
Jeff Paxton - Guitar, vocals, bass
Drums - Mike Pena
MC - Kevin Hritz

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"A spicy hash of folk, alt-pop, and rock and roll... wisecracking bite and musical ingenuity." -The Houston Press

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