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He made me feel lazy, and Im working.

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He wanted people to know the layers and the depth of his potential.

He grew a following and then set about leading the flock out to higher ground.

The mind is never done expanding.

Truth is the most lacerating bar.

True to form, he was already evolving again by the time we heard that one.

It would be a while before the question of what that was leading to would be answered.

Itll be a hard left for some listeners.

Its not a rap album in the traditional sense.

Rap is a brush in its toolkit; so are funk, folk, and psychedelic rock.

The blend is seamless and unpredictably shiftless.Circlesis, by turns, quiet and cozy but also stripped and unnerving.

If life is but a dream, then so are we, Miller muses on I Can See.

Why I gotta build something beautiful just to go set it on fire?

Is my best good enough?

Have I discovered my lifes purpose?

(If you havent already, make haste for the bleak 1967 Summer of Love rejoinderForever Changes.)

Death is a part of the cycle of life but not the point of it.

The point is to love as much as we can in the space between our tombstone dates.

Seek out what youre good at, and who youre good with, and never look back.

And I dont want just sadness either.

I dont want to be depressed.

I want to be able to have good days and bad days.

Much will be made of the stark contrast between the warm, perseverantSwimmingand the wearier, groggierCircles.

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