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The Legend of Connie Hawkins

from Break Our Fall by Dispatch

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lyrics

Down on the courts in Bed Stuy
A legend rose from the streets
Just a poor kid with no use for what the others called gravity

People came from all around to see young connie Hawkins do his thing
When the hawk went up against the best at Rucker park
oh how the choir would sing

High flying kid do you know what you just did

Is It just a dream love, is it just a dream love, steady you go
Hey pa I think I’m gonna make it, I’m going away on a one way ticket
Is it just a dream love, is it just a dream love, steady you go
round here those are always sinking, folks will say connie what were you thinking

He lead the team in Highschool he never once got beat two years in a row
Got a scholarship to Iowa and knew that he had to go
he sent a letter home, to his papa, said papa I’m going to the nba
But then out of nowhere his name got dropped into a scandal, always someone got to pay

I got to got to got to get going now pop, there’s a detective here from the DA
He’s telling me they’ll lock me away, if I don’t say what he wants me to saaaaaaaay

So to all the kids on the back home lots, I swear it isn’t like they say
the investigators pushed me around, and then I was black balled by the nba

That playground legend, who could dunk when he was eleven, with super natural abilities, long before MJ before the Doctor.
His Dreams were stolen, stomped on and thrown in, never got his day in the sun
And now here lies High Flying Hawkins the greatest player that never was

So to all the kids on the back home lots, I swear it isn’t like they say
the investigators pushed me around, and I was black balled by the nba
His Dreams were stolen, stomped on and thrown in, never got his day in the sun
And now here lies High Flying Hawkins the greatest player there ever was

credits

from Break Our Fall, released May 28, 2021
Chadwick Stokes - vocals, guitar, piano
Bradley Corrigan - vocals, drums
John Dragonetti - bass, background vocals, keyboard, tambourine
Mike Sawitzke - guitar, background vocals, keyboard, vocoder
Brian Charles - drum programming

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