DISCONNECT THE DOTS
DISCONNECT THE DOTS
Today you sat up half asleep and stared
Into this cluttered empty apartment
and died
What the where the how the why the
hell
You can watch your step and still
you'll never see the mines
CHORUS:
Stay up man don't drown
It's time to go to town
Today is just another yesterday
You're back in the game again
You're going to win it in the end
Disconnect the dots and be on your
way
Every day I see you sinking low
Dragging around like it's the end
of the world
She's gone she's gone she's gone man
let it go
Cause in the end she didn't turn out
to be much of a girl
CHORUS 2:
Stay up man don't sink
Before you have time to blink
Your number one will walk through
the door and want to play
You're back in the game again
You're gonna to win it in the end
Disconnect the dots
Disconnect the dots and be on your
way
RAP:
Thought you had it good so secure
so sure
Looking at the map and didn't see
the detour
D.I.V.O.R.C.E. or something of that
sort
Disconnect the dots my man the ball's
in your court
Get yourself a shave and put on your
best hat (1a)
The world is your aquarium so you
are the cat (1b)
So dive right in and don't forget
to swim
Get back in the game again
CHORUS:
Stay up man don't drown
It's time to go to town
Today is just another yesterday
You're back in the game again
You're gonna to win it in the end
Disconnect the dots
Disconnect the dots
Disconnect the dots and be on your
way
Very interesting how the opening intro sounds like a '70s game show tune--something like “The Dating Game” perhaps? Because of that, it even brings more color in the song as it is about a man telling his friend to just forget his ex-girlfriend and “be back in the game again.” This echoes that theme of “F*** it, let’s rock.” Also, I find it cool that Steve displays his talent at rap: he used to be in a rap group called F.O.S. (Freedom of Speech).
By the way, in my opinion, the greatest
rappers of all time are:
Run DMC-----they're da shit!!!
De La Soul
Young M.C.
N.W.A.
L.L. Cool J
M.C. Hammer
Anyway, I would like to fool around with their imagery of “disconnect the dots”:
When I was studying art, I found out that most creative people would draw a dot when they were asked to draw immediately when they heard the word “death”; they would then draw a straight line when they heard the word “life.”
Look, I’m not gonna insult your intelligence
by explaining what I had inferred from that study and this cool song. You
do see the connection, right? Disconnect, if you don’t... ;)
pawnotes:
(1ab) which hat would suit
me best?
![[The Cat in the Hat]](cathat.gif)
![[Gangsta Heathcliff]](heath.gif)
Oscar-winning scene from THE CATFATHER Part II:
GANGSTA "PADRINO" HEATHCLIFF:
I gotsa do this.
DR. SEUSS: The cat in the hat...
GANGSTA "PADRINO" HEATHCLIFF:
I can't take this anymore!
DR . SEUSS: The cat in the
hat...
GANGSTA "PADRINO" HEATHCLIFF:
You used to be the fattest cat! The cat everyone feared and respected!
But now, look at you...
DR. SEUSS: The cat in the hat.
GANGSTA "PADRINO" HEATHCLIFF:
You have become a blubbering idiot!
DR. SEUSS: The cat in the hat.
GANGSTA "PADRINO" HEATHCLIFF:
Sorry, Catfather, but I have to do this. It's time that this stinking city-litter
gets a new Phat Cat. Madre de Dios, please forgive me.....
DR. SEUSS: (takes out a
long object inside hat)
The cat in the hat
Has a baseball bat
And Heathcliff he whack
Then stuff in a sack...
GANGSTA "PADRINO" HEATHCLIFF:
(melodramatic death speech inside a cat sack) I'm so sorry Catfather.....
DR. SEUSS:
That's what you get my son
When you mess with the Don
To the river we'll go
The fat sack I'll then throw
And hear you go "Eeeeee!"
While I laugh out in glee.....