Ode to a Cin-ful American tradition
Reading a book the other day about something or other, I was about on the second page and for some reason- may have been an allusion in the book - I was overwhelmed by the memory of one of my favourite North American traditions. Although this amazing creation was established in the US of A...it was in the frosty land of Canada that I was lucky enough to be introduced to it. For all the hostility shown to me by the weather patterns of the Ontario snow belt, two of the most wonderful things I ever found in Canada would have to be -people who give back wallets most times with the money still in it and ...DRUM ROLL PLEASE...... CINNABON! Lets just take a moment - a cinnabon moment......
wooo..
You see I dont remember much about reading that day and why I was triggered but I do remember being overpowered by the memory of the scent and glory of the Cinnabon. Whatever I read must have been like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to a diabetic because all i know is I zoned out, started salivating and that was about it for the reading that day. Am I talking sense, is this true??...please...please..anyone dispute this as a known truth...testify!...Cinnabon is one the most glorious things invented by Americans...and almost ..almost makes me forget anything that may have upset me about that countrys behaviour in the past. It resolves and reparates for many an injustice, because once that cinnamon lusciousness melts on the tongue...warmly trickling caramel succulence on the lip...and bite into the moist yumminess- all is forgotten....That is fourty acres and a mule right there baby!!
Last time I visited the States I resisted and only went to a Cinnabon once to find that they had expanded the menu....wat! I tell you it was like having shopped at the kiosk for Patcos and Tropical mint all your life until your dad decided to take you to Montys! They now had a strawberry chllata, a strawberry banana chillata, a tropical chillata, a chocolate mocha plus the old school cappucino and caramel chillatas...it was madness i tell you...madness!! And although calorific aspects of it gave me a toothache and heart burn all at once I proceeded to the counter and asked for both the Strawberry chillata and a Caramel Pecanbon. Stealing guilty glances to my left and right, I felt like everyone was staring at me and thinking about my impending myocardial infarction but i didnt let it get me down! The mind was prudent but the body was weak and willing - my body was saying 'yes Cinnnabon....yess!! lets go Cinnabon..lets go..." And were you to have entered my head at that time what you'd have heard would have been quite similar to a bunch of Celtel highway billboards - 'yes......yes.....yes...yes..yesyes yes yesyesyes ..yeesss' with each insalubrious bite and sip...
So as we wont meet again anytime soon Cinnabon, Cini, Boni....old buddy old pal...i say goodbye with a few words that people have used to show appreciation ...
'And the drummer boy go pa-rum pa-pum pum
Give ya some some some of this Cinnabon' Missy Elliot
'Girl, you taste like a Cinnabon — so sweet, from the thighs to the feet' Ludacris
'If loving you is wrong , I dont wanna be right' me
we know
love this song..had to post it...
my favourite lines " Got you hopin' for the glorious
Waitin' for that victorious feelin' wanted by all of us
Kneelin' and praying that the Lord in us will help us love ourselves
So much that the confidence attract to someone else"
We Know - Talib Kweli feat Faith Evans
Hey Y'all
I feel good right? (mmm...hmmm...)
Yeah, ok, uhh..
Now what that make me talk about?
Love, love, love, love...(echoes)
Yeah, that's what the world need, ha
Yo, that's what your girl need
All right, we gon' put it down like this
I'll tell you about myself
(1st Verse) [Talib Kweli]
My name is Kweli and I love to spit it homie
I rap about love and life, ladies get to know me
If you feelin' lonely, I can be your one and only
I put it out in the world, so people show me... love (echoes)
Yeah, I always get it back
This ain't no pimp game here, that's a different track
We talkin' this and that, we need to get with this
I keep it realer than most, this is our business
(Chorus) [Faith Evans]
What we gotta do to make them see
We got a good thing going on
Wanna tell the world if they don't know
That what we have is real
Wanna shout it from the mountains baby
That I love you, but if they don't hear me
I know, you know, we know
(2nd Verse) [Talib Kweli]
Heheh, yeah..
Yo, hey baby look like you need a break tonight
Let me make it right, baby won't you stay the night
I got a lot of love as you know you're my favorite right?
Hey my lady, what we gon' make tonight (our love...)
That's the dream, but I never sleep
Across the crowded room, our eyes forever meet
But without doubt and gloom, cuz we can never be
That's why I got to go, cuz you're my impossible love
Your the horizon I can see but never ride off into
I write my lyrics to you, you the perfect instrumental
I sound better than the cat who rappin' to you now
That's between me and you, what happened to us now?
Got you hopin' for the glorious
Waitin' for that victorious feelin' wanted by all of us
Kneelin' and praying that the Lord in us will help us love ourselves
So much that the confidence attract to someone else
(Chorus) [Faith Evans]
What we gotta do to make them see
We got a good thing going on
Wanna tell the world if they don't know
That what we have is real
Wanna shout it from the mountains baby
That I love you, but if they don't hear me
I know, you know, we know
(3rd Verse) [Talib Kweli]
Yo, Rockin' Los Angeles, House of Blues in Sunset
Performin' like an orgasm, my girl ain't even cum yet
Seen her by the side of the stage givin' me energy
Potentially, wife material connectin' mentally
I felt like heaven sent for me, you're meant for me
The doubters and the haters had to acknowledge eventually
You was a non-believer too if memory serves
And a heart that gives shit, tryin' to play your boy for the her
The harder that I run to you, the farther you become
It's like my heart was part of some movie that hadn't yet begun
This woman moves me and I'm a mountain of a man
You pull me in like the waves do the grain of sand (love, love, love...)
Yeah, I love the way you bring it to me
I wrote a song for you, I love to hear you to sing it for me
And let the melody carry me through the jealousy
And we can cruise like Tom and Phenelope
(Chorus) [Faith Evans]
What we gotta do to make them see
We got a good thing going on
Wanna tell the world if they don't know
That what we have is real
Wanna shout it from the mountains baby
That I love you, but if they don't hear me
I know, you know, we know
(Repeat 2x)