Soul Glo - "Thumbsucker"
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"Thumbsucker" by @soulglophl from the album 'Diaspora Problems', available now
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Performed by
Pierce Jordan - Vocals
Ruben Polo - Guitar
GG - Bass, Vocals, Programming
TJ Stevenson - Drums

Directed by Dan White x $$$NICCA
Assistant Director, Editor - Ricky Christian
Produced by Laris Kreslins
In Association with Floor Eleven Films
Production support provided by All Ages Productions
Starring - Soul Glo, Rob Blackwell, Peter Cleary, Mitch Esparza, Steve Skarlow, PJ Carroll, Evan Bernard, Sadie Flesher, Mary Seykot
Trombone - Dave Heck
Saxophone - Hakim Diran
Director of Photography - Conor O'Mara
Assistant Camera - Monica Mejia
Cam Op - Conor O'Mara, Paul Henon, Nick Henon, Sunny Singh, Peter Cleary
Gaffer - Zach Van Heel
Grip - Devon Voelkel
Costume/Art Department - Hanna Hamilton
Production Assistants - Matthew La Rose, Sharyl Aguilar
Carpenter/Sound Engineer - Kevin Keenan
Location Sound - Steve Skarlow
Post Sound Mixing, Assistant Production, Engineering - Evan Bernard
Production, Engineering - GG
Mixing, Mastering - Will Yip
Post Sound Mastering - Ryan Schwabe
Special Thanks - Expressway Cinema Rentals, Darby Irrgang

Lyrics

I been so down it look like up. So down, and yet, I couldn’t figure what it was. Hit the loud once, world opened up, and still learned none.

“Cookie Monster was a prisoner of war” is the kind of poem I like, the kind only God can write, the kind that spells out my life in the simplest terms that suffice. Before I pass the mic I’d like to share some advice: All you protect yrself from feeling will fuck with yr sense of being and become all you can see. A lor nigga was C-O-P-I-N-G by tryna stay out of sight w a thumb between my teeth. Always under my arm was my best friend, Cookie. But my Grandma, I think, feared that it would turn me sweet.

I been so down it look like up. So down, and yet, I couldn’t figure what it was. Chris woke up dead then I started to really bug. So depressed I was defunct. Asked to see someone, shit a dub. Felt like my folks aint give no fuck. None of us thought about my thumb.

You know what’s funny to me, is this lil idea abt Cookie Monster getting tortured tatted on me. Think of Rambo in his flashbacks when he tied to a tree. Emotional assimilation feels similarly. We were apart most of my life, turns out he got took from me. My Grandma gave him back once I secured my bachelors degree with nothing more than “Well you stopped sucking yr thumb, didn’t ya?”

It went:
Crying
Thumbsucking
Depression
Screaming
Weed
Loud
Depression/Anxiety
420
Therapy
Escitalopram
Bupropion

But yea, I guess I turned out alright in the end, didn’t I?
(I detest all my discussions of I)
I been so down it look like up.
So down, and yet, I couldn’t figure what it was.
I did many drugs but never ever rode the bus.
No instead a nigga de-prioritizes his needs, disarmed by paranoid delusions that bring him to his knees. Growing out of character is how he spends the time in between, and therefore trapped inside a cycle of constant apology.
I been so down it look like up.

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