(Prelude)
I'm inspired, I'm creating this reality
Spitting spirals from a world of my imagining
Can't be stopped, I'm committed to my strategy
I've perfected my technique, it happens magically
Check my Departure, this is art so why you mad at me
Everybody's so fly, don't be the gravity...

...The following events are from a vivid dream
As I suffer from #AUGmentia to the tenth degree
And perhaps I am as dope as I pretend to be
...As I suffer from #AUGmentia...

(Verse 1)

She's an artist, so I know she isn't heartless
She impoverished cuz she doesn't want to sell her soul to market
Other girls say she's a martian, I agree; she captures men just like a portrait
...As if she really knows where Mars is

She's the reason I stay on the planet; a man's advantage is her hand 'n'
...man it's soft, she so gentle on demandin', understandin
She makes accurate depictions in her stroke she just says so much
Like Mandarin inscriptions

Her beauty is encrypted, yet her worth is on display
I'm here to see the gallery, but she could be the masterpiece
Graceful as a ballerina; maybe I could balance, we could manage
I believe it, I think I'm up to the challenge

Checking out her abstract, impressive; underneath the tone
I think we all could be aggressive--- the under-lion message, I get it:
She's starving for the flavor like a diabetic
And all her shyness has to offer is a "Hi," pathetic

...Situation, but I take the invitation, cuz I
Was feeling the same but with even less to say, umm...
...At the coffee house across the way from
We can share romantic expressions so you won't have to paint them

(Hook)
Love a girl with a gift, with a passion
Change colors like some others change fashion
...I don't care if she's another man's trash bin
Recognize another brother with some class then

Love a girl with promise, with a passion
Change colors like some others change fashion
...I don't care if she's another man's has-been
Recognize another brother with some class then

(Verse 2)
With the proper tools, you're amazing
To pour your soul into something, so creative---the bravery it takes When the majority can not appreciate something so intricate, so fine,
So I know you must be jaded just a little bit sometimes

And that's fine--- people stopped developing their minds
...A design of the times
But I'm a refugee, and I think that we're the same
Except your colors are so wild where my lyrics are so tame

See you speak a language only few decipher so you... say what you please
I'm no stranger: it's the same when I create my melodies
Dangerous keys and perilous strings--- care to venture?
I never had an inspiration like when I was injured

And seeing you just staggered me;
I'm the cat that curiosity will bring to agony
I'm sure you can imagine vividly--- should we put our heads together? Are you afraid? Ain nothin better; let us endeavor then
My Jazz Friend

(Hook)
Love a girl with a gift, with a passion
Change colors like some others change fashion
...I don't care if she's another man's trash bin
Recognize another brother with some class then

Love a girl with promise, with a passion
Change colors like some others change fashion
...I don't care if she's another man's has-been
Recognize another brother with some class then

(Bridge)
She's my Jazz Friend (She makes me wanna spend money on her art)
She's my Jazz Friend (That part... that part)
She's my Jazz Friend (She makes me wanna spend money on her art)
She's my Jazz Friend (That part... that part)

(Verse 3)
Paint a picture of this melody--- gentle brushes
Underwater lovers, we can't rush this
Whirling with an obvious attraction, drifting freely
Saturated... in satin-silky lavenders of passion

Picture me? Not even worth the mention
My back is to the viewer; you're holding my attention
Cuz honorable mention, is pouring from your lips
I'm lost in your purple gloss, waiting for what slips

A gown upon your waist; like a flower vase it sits
So right upon your hips, like fairy tales exist
Our fingers in a twist so that our palms begin to kiss
Your face behind a curtain slightly parted like the mist

A secret that's so far beneath the surface people miss
An undiscovered species of the ocean's deepest fish
The only way the thrive is by clinging to our kind
But somebody so unique shouldn't have been so hard to find

Erykah Badu you mind? Lisa Lopez, any left?
Miss Aaliyah like a theft, but introduce me to yourself
The way you improvise, see I was feeling how you felt
Standing out just like a soloist from everybody else
My Jazz Friend

(Hook x2)
Love a girl with a gift, with a passion
Change colors like some others change fashion
...I don't care if she's another man's trash bin
Recognize another brother with some class then

Love a girl with promise, with a passion
Change colors like some others change fashion
...I don't care if she's another man's has-been
Recognize another brother with some class then

(Bridge)
She's my Jazz Friend
She's my Jazz Friend
She's my Jazz Friend
She's my Jazz Friend

(Postlude)

(...Living in a world class city... that's just way too modest
Tryna get you some acknowledgement... because it's hard for an artist...)

She makes me wanna spend money on her art
I'm tryna do a study on her heart like... like...
Not the prototype she gotta be the archetype
...Not a photo but a film, she brings the art to life

Arts in the Heart, I came to make a bargain, right
But now I wanna put double on the market price
I'm at the auction for the fresh market
The Fresh Princess, with the Jazz guest-starring

She should be Bankin on the Hill in the Bel-Air Apartments
Chillin off of Walton Way, receivin' million-dollar offers
Fingerprints all up and down the walls of Laney-Walker Boulevard
From the end Broad down to the Pull-A-Part, even the Riverwalk

Even the Mall, even the waterfalls along the wall
She could have me fallin off the banister with an aerosol canister
...I'm a fan of her