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Plague: "Breathe Deep" (including memoirs)

1/30/2014

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Artist(s): Jeremiah Dirt, 7Lock
Song:  Breathe Deep 
Word Count: 269
Producer: Fingaz
Recorded: Area 12 
Album: Plague (Rescue rec. 1999) 
Dirts favorite Line(s): ‘why do they wanna steal thunder (take what isn’t theirs), ‘if one cant stand how bout the other man?’ (if your gonna be weak, then we’ll get somebody else)            

Lyrics & Memories: Breathe Deep

 There’s not much behind this track. I just liked the beat initially when Fingaz let me peep it. It’s first impressions were of a dope Bboy type of track that all the crews could get down with on the linoleum. So that is what I eventually wrote with in mind. 

            I will however tell you the interesting story behind the name. It comes from the old ‘Dinotopia’ book. You gotta go back and check it out. It’s a fictional fantasy story about an island where dinosaurs never died out. Humans get shipwrecked on this island through out the ages and have to stay there because the way the currents flow around the isle, no boat is able to get out into the sea. So the main thrust of the story is about how man and dinosaur live on this island together in harmony (some of the dinosaurs can even talk).

            Well the book I read was about a father and two brothers who get washed up on the island. Their boat wrecks and dolphins save them from drowning by swimming them to the land (which is quite normal according to the story). then from there, the 3 are opened up to the exciting world of Dinotopia (go get a library card and check it!) and so and so forth. Find the book and read the story yourself fool!

 On the island people greet eachother by saying ‘breathe deep, and seek peace’. One day the younger son finally asks a native what exactly does that phrase mean and he is told that it is in reference to the dolphins that saved most of the inhabitants lives.

Dolphins are obviously mammals that need oxygen to survive, but yet they have been placed in the ocean surrounded by water. Well instead of complaining about it and being upset, they have chosen rather to learn how to adapt to their envioronment. They taught themselves to take deep breathes (breathe deep) and deal with the cards they have been handed (seek peace instead of being upset).

I just thought that was all cool. So much so that I even have a tattoo on each arm written in Chinese characters, one saying ‘breathe deep’ and the other saying ‘seek peace’. So when writing this track I used the name here again.

This track was remixed, by DJ Theatre over a new beat for the ‘Upsetter Mixtape’, 2009


BREATHE DEEP 

1st  breath 
ANSWER  THE  QUESTION, "WHY  DO  THEY  WANNA  STEAL THUNDER?
I  MAKE  YOU   WONDER  WHAT  KIND  OF  CAT  WANNA  BE  LIKE  THAT
STICK  MY  FEET  TO  LEVEL  PATH (ISA.26:7)
BUILD  MY  HOUSE  HIP-HOP  BECAUSE  THAT'S  MY  HABITAT
MONOTHEISTIC
BRAIN   PATTERNS   NEVER  SIMPLISTIC
OTHERS  PACKIN'  UP PIPES  WHILE  I'M  PACKIN'  UP  MANUSCRIPTS
GROWTH  LIKE  BOTANIC-SATANIC
THOUGHTS  ALL  UP  IN  ME  BUT  I  BLOW  THEM  LIKE  VOLCANIC

 2nd  breath 
SEEK  WISDOM   LIKE  MAGI
HANG  DEVILS  LIKE  HAMAN (Ester7:10), REVEALING  PLOTS   LIKE   MORDECAI (Ester2:19-23)
MISTIFY   LIKE   VAPOR
EMCEE'S  ARE   RUNNIN'  OFF  THEY  MOUTHS  SO  I  GET  THE  MASKING  TAPE
I  DO  NOT  FRET  BECAUSE  OF  WICKED (Psalm37:1)  MEN 
THAT  TRAVEL  SELF MADE  PATHS  AND  ADHERE  TO  THEY  OWN  RELIGION
I  KNOW  THAT  THEY  DRINK  AN  EVIL  GIN
AND  WHEN  THEY  PICK  UP  MICROPHONES  THEY  ONLY  SPIT  OUT  MENTAL  POISON
I'MMA  BURN  IT  UP  LIKE  GOMORRAH
CARRY  MY  SWORD  AT  ALL  TIMES  LIKE  CONAN  THE  DESTROYER
I  AIN'T  DOWN  WITH  SPIRITUAL  SLAVERY
MICROPHONE  IS  BLOWTORCH  TO  BURN  THE  SKIN  OF  ENEMY
AND  LEAVE  'EM  SUBDUED  LIKE  CANAANITE (Joshua)
WHO  TRIED  TO  KILL  ME  WITH  CAR-BOMBS  BUT  IT  WAS  ONLY  MY  PROTOTYPE
I'M  AFFLUENT  IN  THE  WAYS  OF  RHYMIN'
SPIT  SEEDS  FROM  MY  MOUTH  AND  WAIT  FOR  FERTILIZATION
I WREAK  HAVOC  LIKE  THE  4RTH  TABLET
A  MASSIVE  HEADACHE  TO  YOUR  MEMBRANE
GET  RELIEF  FROM  THE  BIG  CHIEF
EXTRACTING  JUICES  FROM  THE  TREE  (TRI)
THE  ANECDOTE-AAAHHH-TO  THE  SIN  THAT  YOUR  IN
THEOLOGICAL  LYRICS  ACTIN'  LIKE  POISON
IF  ONE  CAN'T  STAND  HOW  'BOUT  THE  OTHER  MAN
LET'S  MAKE  PACTS  IN  THE  DARK  AND  SMUGGLE  REAL  STUFF  LIKE  CONTRABAND
PROJECTION  LIKE  GANG  MAN  CARRY  GUN
VIBRATION  FROM  THE  SON  FILLS  UP  MY  LUNG
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