Back to the Roots
Album Notes
Back to the Roots is a recording that encompasses Mosey Beat's original sound. The mix of witty lyrics, soaring guitar, groovin' bass and fat drum beats developed a landscape of earthy sounds for this album.
With hints of Rock, Jazz and Reggae Back to the Roots possesses the feel of a modern jam-band but with structures that resemble classic rock music. This recording puts it all out front for the listener without drawing your ear to one instrument in particular.
Special Thanks to:
Ben Matos - Former Bassist/Co-Founder
Lyrics
BNS
Chillin' like a villain and I'm ready to play
I've got my guitar in my hands
and I just wanna say
That my days always filled with darkness and demons so if I'm a little late
you know where I'll be then
Rollin up a pinner sparking up that tree man, awh yeah
Let's hear it for these east coast stoners
call em' up on a telephone sayin'
what I got is what you need
Just hit me up when your fienin' for the green, I heard Bradley back in 2006 and I thought
man I could play that shit
So I made it my mission to fix my own ambition and now I'm always playing like I was wishing
in my lyrical mission I search for precision keep adding on shit like it was addition-ally
I wanna thank the fellas who without wanna another we would not be who we are
time is only a state of mind, it's just a state of mind and the rhyme is always right on time
it's just too easy to find
All I ask of you is what I need to know
am I gonna do or should I pack my shit and go
a whispers all I need to stay so tell me to go and I'm on my way
Hell I'm on my way
I don't go looking for materialistic things
to fill my world
I just fill it up with the peace and love and you can be the whole damn world
cause one and one and one is you
and if you are one well I am two
then are we all one really really true?
Is it true I'm one with the universe writing down
a sick verse everybody's suffering
from their own curse
I keep on living like a rebirth being a kid acting like a stupid jerk just remember material dies and nature will enter your mind
remember material dies and nature can enter your mind
All I ask of you is what I need to know
am I gonna do or should I pack my shit and go
a whispers all I need to stay so tell me to go and I'm on my way
Hell I'm on my way
Like the words that I feel and the beats that I kill I'm an assassin every style that I pass in
take a little bit store it in my head and then I let it all out nobody notices the words I said
but DJ's and MC's don't mean shit to me
they beg and say please don't battle me but I'm trying to be the best
untouched by all the rest this is your captain speaking and no this ain't a test all broads aboard your bound to get wet
how about that recital make me an idol if you want a brand new star Mosey Beat's gonna make it far.
All I ask of you is what I need to know
am I gonna do or should I pack my shit and go
a whispers all I need to stay so tell me to go and I'm on my way
Hell I'm on my way
Exist
No time is wasted until you
stop to think about it just
two hands on a clock saying tic-toc sit down to examine yourself
you've got two hands to use and legs to walk eyes to see and a mouth to talk
you've got ears to hear all the things that I'm singing and a body to gel with
your nose to smell with
yourself to express to us so go on and do it in the time you're givin' as long as we're still here
we might as well be livin'
All that I'm sayin' no matter what you're doin' gotta be happy with yourself
this world is the only place we really know at all
now that you've heard me
let's sing our own new song
wear our hearts on our sleeves
cause we just want to love
I meet new people all the time
they tell me that their life is fine
but they're hiding I can see it
oh I just can't quite perceive it so if you're open with me I'll be open to you and we can help you to get on through
the one thing you need to know, nothing really happens at all
even when someone's remark makes your skin crawl, just remember words are something small
take the negativity flip to creativity
All that I'm sayin' no matter what your doin' gotta be happy with yourself
this world is the only place we really know at all
now that you've heard me
let's sing our own new song
wear our hearts on our sleeves
cause we just want to love
Cars keep passing people keep
walking nobody's stoppin' nope no talkin' today
all they wanna do is stare at their phone they want to make this escape from home,
but the one thing we don't realize
you're stuck in this vessel with out a doubt
so you might as well just push it then kick it brother
All that I'm sayin' no matter what your doin' gotta be happy with yourself
this world is the only place we really know at all
now that you've heard me
let's sing our own new song
wear our hearts on our sleeves
cause we just want to love
Harmonic Possibility
Everything that I know I learned
from my eyes
at least that's what I'm told to believe
but if all that's true how to explain
I can play this game
with a blindfold and know the road to go
is that fate or destiny
I don't know, so pity me
The way the vision lights up my sky
when I close my eyes it's like
a thousand dancing flames
and which one to chose how to fuel the fire,
take the darkest route,
quickest way to go insane
Vibration combination of this constant
want to feeling
vibration continuation of this constant
want to feel it
where is the love? It's hiding in each and every one of us
I've got the love teach the youth peace love compassion focus
It's a whole new world full of possibility
let's choose the best and we will rebuild it
Stretch for the light because with each darkened choice
it gets you feeling good like you knew you would
but after a while like you shouldn't have
and there's no turning back times stuck on this track like a train
don't get in its way or down you'll go.
Inside Intuition
Kick off your shoes and get real loose
we are the Mosey Beat
and if you're tappin' you're feet
could you get on up out of you're seat and keep movin' to the groove the time you never lose
you never had it before in the first place it keeps on comin' and goin' the same rate
we are all just hear and now,
chillin' in my own hrydiam
Got a little bit of blues and I'll mix it in
quite a bit of truth sing from within
a tiny bit of compassion and you got rhythm
all that's left to do is all above, just add the love
A self proclaimed tamer of the dames
I've loved everyone, just the same
tried relationships I got tired of that shit, played the single life and I'm a god damn hit
all I'm searching for is that old tall tale of love that's real between a boy and a girl
do you think I'll find it? In time I will but for now let's get together I'm ready to chill
Got a little bit of blues and I'll mix it in
quite a bit of truth sing from within
a tiny bit of compassion and you got rhythm
all that's left to do is all above, just add the love
Why is it always about the love?
you ask me that everyday
my answer is very simple its my only way
so keep on going to everything in your head your gonna get out
probably go insane, better listen to
your heart instead.
Got a little bit of blues and I'll mix it in
quite a bit of truth sing from within
a tiny bit of compassion and you got rhythm
all that's left to do is all above, just add the love
Give
The path I walk it winds twisting turning every corner of my mind
I see beauty all the time from a blue jays song to the conversation moving along
let the stresses weigh on me and then I'll take it in and bury it deep
some days it gets too much so I sit down with my breath and I
I wake up to see a flower in it's bud ready to bloom from the change to sun from moon
taking night and day as the same place where your shadow hides true love shows it's face
when the shadow spreads it seed you see the beauty and know love is what it needs
take the promises we make be sincere,
be real clear, we all know
I never thought love could be any more than what this give and take?
When I'm all out I could take it
take it just as I please
and when the lovin' return to me I'll be sure to spread my wings
give it right back,
right back to the love that makes me sing
I wake up to see a flower in it's bud ready to bloom from the change to sun from moon
taking night and day as the same place where your shadow hides true love shows it's face
when the shadow spreads it seed you see the beauty and know love is what it needs
take the promises we make be sincere,
be real clear, we all know
Nighttime Brother
Started back when I was young
7 years old and learning to drum
I had a rhythm flowing through my veins,
all of a sudden it opened up my brain
started up this click track
and I could not reverse that
I learned what I could do with
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4
They keep on plastering
images on TV screens
trying to control your life
but don't take heed to all the lies
where your at is where your soul resides
People always ask what style did I choose
I cannot tell you but I'll tell you what I do
I like to rap and I like to sing
but I like a little bit of everything
and I'll try new things until they're old
and I'll still be hot while your veins are running cold.
They keep on plastering
images on TV screens
trying to control your life
but don't take heed to all the lies
where your at is where your soul resides
Got a lot of things I'm grateful for,
Blair on the drums shaking the floor
I got Dave laying down the licks
so I can give myself a little kick
music is where I'm at what I love is what I do
oh god I've got to go gotta keep on going to
They keep on plastering
images on TV screens
trying to control your life
but don't take heed to all the lies
where your at is where your soul resides
WANNABEYOU
Wrong coast right state of mind I'm chilling east side almost all the time
people wanna always be right, thinking they can tell you how to make the music tight
but I live day to day playing shit my own way, you've gotta be yourself can't rely on no one else
no no no and I'll say
Call me what you like call me what you will
call me wannabe is that what you tell me
if i'm just a wannabe would you
pick up my guitar
show me a style I can groove to,
wanna be moving to a groove
who do you think you are,
calling me a wannabe
I rap circles around your head, then I'll play guitar instead
hop straight to the keys if it's what you need play a beat on the drums
Blair's got it covered for me
to top it all of I'll sing my favorite song a melody about my favorite green, miss mary jane
miss everyone knows her name
Call me what you like call me what you will
call me wannabe is that what you tell me
if i'm just a wannabe would you
pick up my guitar
show me a style I can groove to,
wanna be moving to a groove
who do you think you are,
calling me a wannabe
I like chillin' cruisin' maybe a little boozin' smoking jokin' I hear time is what I'm losing
but we are all just here spending our days getting lost and lost in all that haze
swing back and forth and to and fro I feel my skateboard starting to flow
master of rhythm a poet formed in time I keep coming up with rhymes that seem to be fine
like the women my eyes are drawn to, my name is Taylor how do you do?
Is it a little funky lovin' and out in the morning or do you need a man cause I just need a warning
to run run the other way, I've got no time to stay
Call me what you like call me what you will
call me wannabe is that what you tell me
if i'm just a wannabe would you
pick up my guitar
show me a style I can groove to,
wanna be moving to a groove
who do you think you are,
calling me a wannabe