Tesseract Travelers (A Wrinkle in Rhyme) - I think the inspiration behind this song was me thinking what I would change with my life if I had a time machine and that just makes you depressed. So to make myself happier, I made time-travel track with redvoid and dimension (aka MC Jeff Z). I also wanted to get Gabriel from Nerdcore News on a song. I gave him some vocal direction and he came back BIG with "there is such a thing as a tesseract". Do you love the L'Engel reference in the title? I'm really proud of this track. Too bad ProTools ate the project file. "hurt like pulled suetres, you can't change the past, you know what, you can change the future"
lyrics
A WRINKLE IN RHYME - Redvoid, MC jeffZ, funky49
[[redvoid]]
garage kept primer device growing mold, changing watches
travel back to the era popular with swatches
so hard travel back to whack my gramps
paradox fade out, revel and dance
U Haul storage space for my time machine
failsafe box, my world line clean
last version of events, the one that sticks
Groundhog Day skill works with the chicks
travel back to hack my stock portfolio,
cash stacks phat no lack in Monte Carlo
travel forward bitin' the dopest styles
drop future music stylee til you go buckwild
faster than light, younger than my twin, back to the
future as a child flyin streamers on my Schwinn
parallel universes, where goats can talk
buffalos sing and the clocks can walk
use more Spice than Navigators folding space in Dune
connect blackholes in distant nebulas, pop enemies when I tune
cross event horizon into the wormhole
more alter egos than Beavis as Cornholio
stow away on shuttle missions, I be jackin gear
armed break in and entry of space station Mir
indeterminite probabilities I take in stride
joined the 15 mile high club with Sally Ride
Quantum consciousness my mind, unstuck in time
future, past probabilities, ride and glide
my bio's harder to follow than zero grav gel
I traveled time more than a character by H.G. Wells
HOOK (whispered)
there is such a thing as a tesseract
there is such a thing as a tesseract (whatsis?!)
there is such a thing as a tesseract (Which?!
there is such a thing as a tesseract (Who?!)
JZ VERSE:
Who woulda thunk it, causality we sunk it
if time travel exists theoretically *
then perhaps its a truelife reality *
Traveling thru time as relative as this rhyme
Going anytime no I mean like anytime
just be pulling that ludicrous speed out our hats
100 years into the future in 10 seconds flat
Splitting up s-time like a check among friends
These lyrical implications ill like the bends
time machines flowing as easy as HTML
building reality to order like Dell
time travel for everybody well maybe
set of choices infinite as pre shady
[Be funny bein waiter at my parents first date
Everything I’m doing it’s just my new fate
As you hear this I’m probably cruising right now
So much to do can’t slow down now]
So let me turn over the keys to funky49
So he can drop some more temporal rhymes
HOOK (whispered)
there is such a thing as a tesseract
there is such a thing as a tesseract (whatsis?!)
there is such a thing as a tesseract (Which?!
there is such a thing as a tesseract (Who?!)
[[funky49]]
my words bend time-space like the Tardis
jeff z, redvoid, four nine super artists
we time travel, making shit re-arranged
Biggie Smalls sayin' "Things Done Changed'"
great power come great responsiblity
capabilities of dementisonal mobility
not a theory see, the feasibility
is certainly a viability of ability, believe me (believe me)
sci-fi gave me the information
to stay away from cliche temptations
don't want travels back to bet on sports
no paradoxes blowing things outta sorts
don't want twelve monkeys humpin' me
just want the future the best it can be
still got thoughts that walk a fine line
cause I think about deltas, to my time line
[[funky49]] - verse two
on my brain, timeline changes, rearranges,
possibilities bugging me like taking Jenny
to the prom, no loan shark extortions,
(pause) what if I didn't fund a friend's abortion?
damned dangerous thinking, what-if,
chances missed, girls not kissed, gettin' yourself pissed,
hurt like pulled sutures can't change the past,
ya know what? you can change the future
(outro - whispered)
there is such a thing as a tesseract
there is such a thing as a tesseract (whatsis?!)
there is such a thing as a tesseract (Which?!
there is such a thing as a tesseract (Who?!)
credits
from Starblazer,
released June 22, 2008
additional vocals provided by redvoid and mc jeffZ
funky49 is a rapper and science enthusiast living in Tampa, FL. He has presented at TEDx, Fermilab, and the National Academy
of Sciences. He was named a “Nerdcore Hip-Hop All Star” by Wired magazine. He has performed at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum and geek-friendly concerts such as Nerdapalooza. His album Starblazer is available on iTunes, Amazon and CDBaby....more
