Cannon Raps (Pt. 1)

[Skit]
We are—hello, y'all
We are George Duke at the piano, Walter booker on Bass
Roy McCurdy on drums, Airto Moreira on percussion
Nat Adderley, cornet, yeah
And um, we um—players of music
Um, I don't know why we arrived at this but somewhere along the way, we decided we would be players individually, you know, we kinda got together through some quirk
The tune we just played is called "The Brakes"
That's capital B-R-A-K-E-S
Thе brakes, you know, a sort of, mechanical devicе utilized to inhibit motion when one wishes to create some inertia of some kind
Depends on the need
I have a friend here who needs to put the brakes on, he's gettin' older
And if he could put the brakes on time, he'd be cool, wouldn't you, Joe?
(Right) Haha, yeah, we can't do nothin' 'bout that, that's funny
Since we are folks who have this mad passion for the observance of the passage of time
Be it clock, calendar, or just rap
Time is gone, the time—"The Brakes"
We're goin' to do somethin' that's a little different from "The Brakes" right now, already
This is a thing, uh, composed by our pianist, George Duke
It's uh, kind of a funny thing because, you know, in this era when
So many people who are relatively hip are makin' references to the stars and uh
Various signs of the zodiac to indicate some kinship
It's nice when somebody can kinda dig it objectively and stand back and say, "Well hell, I don't know nothin' 'bout what's happenin' with my sign
I just know what somebody else is sayin' about it and 'cause I know that I'm not cool"
Now that's the part that's most difficult to achieve, of course
This is a thing that's involved in "Capricorn"