all that colourful jazz
thumb snapping
bohemian poetry fads
beat generation
trance into beatniks
hip generation
dance into hipsters
scream into beatles
romance into hippies
keeping the beat
all that generational heat
one after another
all that cool jazz
rooted but continuing to roll
rocking and all that razzamatazz
brother all that rock and roll
sweltering into helter skelter
one eye opening tangerine dream
drifting into some other hurt
Bo Jangles into other tangles
squares into triangles
circled then skunked by punks
plunking into a carnival ranking
still more circus hanky panky
menage a trois plus a high wire act
one carnal beat after another
facets of jungle being
life's individual facts
one intrepid key into another
blissful harmony and raucous rhythm
tall bridges over the river high
one schism followed by another
hey little sister and big brother
keep that universal beat
a chorus with all those lyrical tunes
cultural attunement
societal atonement
every bitching song we sing
harlequin colours ring a ding ding
measure after measure the spell isn't broken
burning down the house
breaking down the walls
incorporating every musical token
don't let your reverb tears make you sad
import the world from sticks and stones
extract every viral dance
strum simple chords that make you glad
pound wildly on drums and bones
tap tap tap on horns and bells
wah wah followed by strings and spells
what would the world be without that beat
how truly cool and sublimely neat
don't stop moving your feet
raze both heaven and hell
sing ballads and crazy songs
could the unfazed universe tell
trade us for something amazing and swell
be that extraordinarily right or subliminal and wrong
exile us to in there Mercury or out there Pluto
somewhere the human beat has never gone

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