Steve April - Hope info, credits, lyrics, and comments at IndieMusicPeople

Steve AprilHope Alternative Pop Rock

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Lars Lair

~LIFE AFTER LIFE~

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WIZARD X FM

WARRIORS FOR CHANGE

NATURE ENTER ME!

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AFTER THE FLOOD

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Reached #15 in IAC genre "no genre," top 50 for about 6 months. a story song w a spontaneous rap. the refrain's borrowed from an emily dickinson poem...the "rap" finale dedicated to levi, her cd "another jennifer" and additional on cd baby...

steve april

Hope

Your mother's doin' the laundry
with her boyfriend down the block
your brother's down at Rikers
they threw away the lock
when he took out his Glock in a drive by.
Hope is the thing with feathers.

You steal a 12 speed
from a messanger on 7th avenue
you meet truckers and suckers
and "high life" men in blue
who run their numbers on you.
Hope is the thing with feathers yeah yeah.
Negativity is all you got, your lousy anger gets you through...

You're makin' new friends
on your climb to the top.
Your Cd's breakin' new ground
maybe the Boston pops
will offer a chair to an artist rapper.
Hope is the thing with feathers.
Corporate tailors, give me some room
I'm not responsible, not responsible.
Preachers of violence, a moment of silence for the children.
Heart and belly, art kelly, ludicross,
take the tax loss, do you court a girl like that?
We love you Latrell.
Hey Levi how do ya like me now?
Dr. Dre eo, not a bad ceo, jest ok eo...
I o the night.
The girl standin' next to me
sings sings on the radio
we're minstrels on a mission sent by God. x

Song Comments

~LIFE AFTER LIFE~
Nobodies safe from the observation and pointed tongue of the mew 'beat poet'/musician Steve April as he surveys society and even the corporate music industry in this ultra witty satire of all those on 'the sly' and all the hate-breeders who wreak havoc...all done in a Randy Newman style with a crazy Bowie/esque sax fluctuating...is there hope for any of these fallen characters profiled?..."Hope is a thing with feathers" April sings.... one tricky bird to catch and hold onto! in this whacky world we live in

Lars Lair
Amid a violent landscape; a minstrel who may be on a mission from God or maybe not, April is gonna see things the way they are and in a style of The Band/Randy Newman/Dylan, glides thru the 'muck' of society with his saxophone singing...sure that "Hope is a thing with feathers" and hopefully it will land somewhere today...maybe on Steve's shoulders when it hears this creative S.O.S. anthem.

WARRIORS FOR CHANGE
sometimes hope is all there is!

NATURE ENTER ME!
for the wildlife-the endangered species

WIZARD X FM
Steve is a GREAT singer / songwriter and it's an HONOR for me to play his tunes on Wizard X FM....

Bokum Twilight
Steve's got me polishing up my Selmer and buying new reeds. Real sax, real piano, really catchy tune!

AFTER THE FLOOD
Steve gave us hope