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The Inevitable Effort

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Title track. Autobiography, mission statement, a paraphrasing of what this album is and why.

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Intentional: I never said this obsession was effortless.
Essential: Intelligence, eloquence and excellence.
Exceptional: That's what I especially expect from this.
Inevitable: For the records kids, that's what this effort is.

I'm a suburban kid, but I feel at home living through different projects/
Following Homer though no "dough" or Simpsons watching/
I mean the Ill-I-Add with the Odd-I-See in scripted concepts/
The studio's a part meant(apartment) for All One Room's letters addressed in complex/
Songs as architecture, our linguistics are tools and building block sets/
I hope to Frank Lloyd Write my way to notable diction conquest/
Consider my decisions pompous, literal descriptive bombast/
but my Shining shouldn't be Overlooked for Thinner prospects/
One day they'll say “a King wrote these words” ...I'm Richard Bachmann/
regardless of lack of incurred profits, I promise I'll always make my “living” off this/
And since I've Great Expectations like I'm Dickens, often/
I get “let down” like locks of hair before women wash it/
bright idea! Lamp rub, I dream the Djinn is tonic, and I'm wishing on this/
I needn't novel ideas in this chapter to serve sentences: Mr. convict/
My penitentiary is the pen is the sword, some sort of Swiss made object/
I'm not a fighter but love is a battlefield and this is the conflict/
King Arthur Conan The Barbarian Doyle, fitted to fight, and fit to solve it/
wheels spinning, pistons jogging, gears turning, I'm driven constantly/
Steering seeking success which could be a given, honest/
if I could give in honor and settle for simplistic garbage/
but since this 80's baby may be plagued with ADHD, system glitching locking/
My brain and I we'll add our all, when putting a riddle in written contents/
so with ease I'll be drawn to canvas distant options/
these gimmick artists want to ink for paper like H.P. with their nonsense/
It's Ironic they don't Love Craft, so they make horrific monstrous/
attempts at art like Pickman's products/
Caught red handed crimson palmist/
in the band-wagon if the radio's flyer in your opinion novice/
These piggish starlets make “success” a joke like a lisping problem/
I'm an energetic rhythmic talking, effervescent vivid pontiff
with invigorating preaching stimulating theses and this isn't calmin'
(no, this isn't “common”)
My lines go up on over heads, like visa-a-vis scribbled topics/
most my performances boast Cheers like they live in Boston/
taverns equipped with rockets, this bar has risen farthest/
put your hands and music standards up and grip it hardest/
listeners: progress begins at long last the strengthening lifting process...

Intentional: I never said this obsession was effortless.
Essential: Intelligence, eloquence and excellence.
Exceptional: That's what I especially expect from this.
Inevitable: For your efforts kids, that's what this record is.

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from The Inevitable Effort, track released June 10, 2012
Lyrics written and performed by Bruce "AllOne" Pandolfo. Production by Charlie Button. Recording, Mixing and Mastering by Michael Korb.

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Left-field rapper, slam poet, singer/songwriter, and author Bruce Pandolfo from Long Island.
Creating to connect. Obsessively exploring and creating art as healing and growing.

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