Collaborator: Bil Wright
Associated Artists: NaTasha Yvette Williams, Adriane Lenox
THE QUESTIONS AND THE CHATTER, ALL THE QUESTIONS, ALWAYS QUESTIONS THERE’S NOT ONE TONIGHT THE GIGGLING, AND THE TATTLING, AND THE GOSSIP EV’RY DETAIL OF SOME SCHOOLYARD FIGHT WHERE ARE THE SOUNDS TONIGHT? THE SOUNDS THAT TELL ME MY LIZAN’S AROUND. SOUNDS, A THOUSAND SOUNDS ALL YOUR SOUNDS MY BABY’S SOUNDS. THE WHISP’RING AND THE WHINING AND THE TEASING I SAY ‘STOP YOUR TEASING, I’M NOT PLAYING, GIRL." WHAT YOU LIKE, WHAT YOU DON’T, WHAT YOU WISH WHAT YOU’D DO IF YOU COULD CHANGE THE WORLD WHERE ARE THE SOUNDS TONIGHT? THE SOUNDS THAT TELL ME MY LIZAN’S AROUND THE SOUNDS I TOOK FOR GRANTED I THOUGHT I’D NEVER MISS THE NOISE I CALLED A NUISANCE YET, SUDDENLY I’M LISTENING FOR YOUR SOUNDS WHERE ARE YOUR SOUNDS?
GO ON, NOW, ASK ME A QUESTION. TELL ME WHAT THE TEACHER WORE. SPEAK UP LOUDER, I CAN'T HEAR YOU. SWEET BABY, TELL ME MORE. WHERE ARE THOSE SOUNDS TONIGHT? THE SOUNDS THAT TELL ME MY LIZAN’S AROUND. TONIGHT I NEED TO HEAR ONE QUESTION. ANY QUESTION. ASK MOTHER I’M LIST’NING CAN YOU HEAR ME? ALRIGHT THEN, I’LL WAIT THEN, I’LL BE HERE.