Scatman's World

[lavamike]

Well This Is just a very good song and please listen to it and if you don't like music just read the words.  It sends a very good message and me and vince thought we would share it with all of you.  Tell Us What You Think!

About Scatman John:
Born in El Monte, California, he suffered from a severe stutter "since [he] started talking", which led to an emotionally traumatic childhood. Even at the peak of his success in 1995, journalists reported that during interviews he "hardly finishes a sentence without repeating the phrase at least six or seven times". At age 12 he began to learn piano, and was introduced to the art of scat singing at 14 through records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, amongst others. The piano provided him with a means of artistic expression to compensate for his speech difficulties. He remarked in a 1996 interview that "playing piano gave me a way to speak... I hid behind the piano because I was scared of talking."

He became a professional jazz pianist in the 1970s and '80s, playing many gigs in jazz clubs around Los Angeles. In 1986, he released the self-titled album John Larkin on the Transition label, copies of which are now extremely scarce. He claimed to have "hundreds of them lying around in [his] closet at home". Around this time alcoholism and drug addiction were also beginning to take a hold of his life. When fellow musician and friend Joe Farrell, who also had a drug problem, died in 1986, Larkin decided to beat his habits. He eventually did so, largely with the help of his new wife Judy, also a recovering alcoholic. "You have talent", she told him. "I'm going to make something out of you".

"Hi everybody...Scatman John here.
I want to thank all of you for joining me in Scatman's World.
I need to tell you something... We all have a choice.
We can either be part of the problem, or part of the solution.
I invite ALL of you to come and join me, and be part of
Scatman's World, and be part of the solution.
And how do we be part of the solution?
By learning to love and accept ourselves - exactly as we are." - John Paul Larkin (AKA Scatman John)

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Lyrics:
(Scatting by Scatman John)
Scatman's World
(Scatting by Scatman John)
I'm calling out from Scatland
I'm calling out from Scatman's world.
If you wanna break free you better listen to me.
You got to learn how to see in your fantasy. (2x)

Everybody's talkin' something very shockin' just to
Keep on blockin' what they're feelin' inside but
But listen to me brother, you just keep on walkin' 'cause
You and me and sister ain't got nothin' to hide.

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man
Tell me 'bout the colour of your soul.
If part of your solution isn't ending the pollution
Then I don't want to hear your stories told.
I want to welcome you to Scatman's world

(Scatting by Scatman John)

I'm calling out from Scatland
I'm calling out from Scatman's world.
If you wanna break free you better listen to me.
You got to learn how to see in your fantasy.

Everyone's born to compete as he chooses
But how can someone win if winning means that someone loses.
I sit and see and wonder what it's like to be in touch.
No wonder all my brothers and my sisters need a crutch.

I want to be a human being not a human not a human doing.
I couldn't keep that pace up if I tried.
The source of my intention really isn't crime prevention.
My intention is prevention of the lie (yeah)
Welcome to the Scatman's world

(Scatting by Scatman John)
(Course) I'm calling out from Scatland...
(Scatting by Scatman John)
(Course)I'm calling out from Scatland...
Listen to me.
(Course)I'm calling out from Scatland...
(Scatting by Scatman John)

In Your Fantasy
(Scatting by Scatman Jonh)
(Course)I'm calling out from Scatland...
(Scatting by Scatman Jonh)

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man
Tell me 'bout the colour of your soul.
If part of your solution isn't ending the pollution
Then I don't want to hear your stories told.
I want to welcome you to Scatman's world

(Course)I'm calling out from Scatland...
(Course)I'm calling out from Scatland...
(Scatting by Scatman Jonh)
I wanna welcome you to Scatmans World

Favorite/Meaningful Lyric Lines:
Everybody's talkin' something very shockin' just to
Keep on blockin' what they're feelin' inside but
But listen to me brother, you just keep on walkin' 'cause
You and me and sister ain't got nothin' to hide.

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man
Tell me 'bout the colour of your soul.
If part of your solution isn't ending the pollution
Then I don't want to hear your stories told.

If you wanna break free you better listen to me.
You got to learn how to see in your fantasy.

Everyone's born to compete as he chooses
But how can someone win if winning means that someone loses.
I sit and see and wonder what it's like to be in touch.
No wonder all my brothers and my sisters need a crutch.

I want to be a human being not a human not a human doing.
I couldn't keep that pace up if I tried.
The source of my intention really isn't crime prevention.
My intention is prevention of the lie

[Vince]

Great song and person. R.I.P. Scatman 


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[Zun_Callison]

I like songs with more "real" texts

[lavamike]

I like songs with more "real" texts

Same

[Hellrocker]

Interesting song!

[Cane]

Plus a quote from John Paul Larkin himself:

"Hi everybody...Scatman John here.
I want to thank all of you for joining me in Scatman's World.
I need to tell you something... We all have a choice.
We can either be part of the problem, or part of the solution.
I invite ALL of you to come and join me, and be part of
Scatman's World, and be part of the solution.
And how do we be part of the solution?
By learning to love and accept ourselves - exactly as we are." - John Paul Larkin (AKA Scatman John)

And below is 1 of my favorite songs by Scatman John.

[Squeak]

Scatman is pretty cool, I remember hearing him when I was like 8 or 9...I tried putting on a scatman concert today,,
EPIC FAIL

[Goodblue]

Scatman ftw!!! :banana:

[Omri]

One of the best songs ever made, so nice flow in it.

Lyrics:..

Big B.
Raisinhustlas, thieves, and prostitutes.
Young homie think before you shoot
Murderaaaaah.
Where will our children go,
When there no (nowhere, no!) place anywhere they can go?

Bizzy
And trouble may come and some time
You'll get pulled over by one-time
And when in 1999 rewinds didn even make any strides
Murder all around the whole world is nausiating
Everybody hatineverybody over-rated
Why everybody actin' agitated?
I thought we graduated back in the saddle
Waitin' (board) aboard the battle station
Hation is a birth defect, and you know ain't nobody perfect,
And when the curtains close, open up the door, no more, no more.

Big B.
See we抮e losing this world we love.
And it looks like the sinninwon't end.
So I'm reachinhigh up above.
Lord let Your blessings begin.

Bizzy [Big B.]
And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].

Flesh
It got me ready to set off the riot.
Ridinwith my trues
Humbly united gathering souls.
Here we go, roll up some more Phillies.
My nigga let me hit it.
Niggas we thugginimmortalized,
Let's get high.
It's them niggas you most desire.
I could remember from way back in the day
Coming up out of the ghetto was a hell of a struggle.
For selling the fiends llello,
But it was my dream to kick flows to put my people on another level.
Like it'll be for the lust (lust).
Or could it be for the rush (rush)?
My niggas love when they bust (bust).
They steady buck and you duck (duck).
They'll put you deep in the dust (dust).
My niggas creepinon ah come up (come up).
Black nigga killa (killa).
Thuggish ruggish nigga.
Nigga pin it,
Nigga finna desend into a dawn of a new millennium.
Anticipatin,life without Satan.
Hatinand our enemies to hell I'm sendin' em.

Bizzy [Big B.]
And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].

Layzie
Everyday the devil at me.
And I wish the Lord threw a hummer at me,
I ain't happy.
Me and Eazy-E in a B-E-N-Z
With my niggas right next to me.
It's my legacy,
We can't let it stop us,
Unh unh, not now.
The whole world endin' up the buck buck, pow!
Corruption, destruction, disaster,
Everybody tryin' to rap faster than the master.
Oh Lord, could you save my soul?
Nigga tryin' to go platinum around 40 years old.
The Lord knows we can do this shit.
It ain't no stoppin' us now 'cause we can prove this shit.
Nigga me, Stew, D's P.D., Freaky-G.
The whole world wanna be rappin' with me.
I'm in the flesh,
Let's talk about sex.
Babies havin' babies generation X.
With the AIDS epidemic we ain't pure no more.
And I know they got a cure for this shit,
We ain't rich.
First we lost Eazy,
Then we lost Pac,
Biggie got killled,
When this shit gon stop?
Everybody wanna know what's goin' on with the Thuggish Ruggish
Bone-Bone-Bone-Bone.
Tryin' to be prepared for the Y2K.
And if I don't die today,
I'm tryin' to change the world.

Bizzy [Big B.] {Layzie}
And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].

Wish
You need a lesson you can learn from rappin'
But they try to ban it, realize that it ain't gon' happen
We done changed the world
Ghetto voices bein heard and failed
Know its funny, got my guns, better arm yourself
Most dont have a clue, If it goes down what to do
Don't you know this government aint vote for me and you
I have a dream, no, I have a wish
If we can't save ourselves, then let's save the kids
Let the world go, let these babies have somethin
Let the world go, just don't blow this muthafucka up
You kill him, he'll kill you
Some say it stupid but violence really lives where I come from
Hungry little kids where I come from
Judge not me where I come from


Big B.
See we losing this world we love.
And it looks like the sinninwon't end.
So I'm reachinhigh up above.
Lord let Your blessings begin.

Bizzy [Big B.]
And let's change the world,
And let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!],
Let's change the world,
Let's change the world [worrrrld!]
Let's change the world, lets change the world [worrrrld!].

[Call_me_Dad]

Really Good lyrics 

[lavamike]

If you guys have any other songs that you think are meaningful you can post them here with lyrics too!   

[Omri]