Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Richard Hell and the Voidoids were an American punk rock band, formed in New York City in 1976 and fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of the Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers.
History
Kentucky-born Richard Meyers moved to New York City after dropping out of high school in 1966, aspiring to become a poet. He and his best friend from high school, Tom Miller, founded the rock band the Neon Boys which became Television in 1973. The pair adopted stage names; Miller called himself Verlaine after Paul Verlaine, a French poet he admired, and Meyers became Richard Hell because, as he has said, it described his condition.
The group was the first rock band to play the club CBGB, which soon became a breeding ground for the early punk rock scene in New York. Hell had an energetic stage presence and wore torn clothing held together with safety pins and his hair spiked, which was to be influential in punk fashion—in 1973, after a failed management deal with the New York Dolls, impresario Malcolm McLaren brought these ideas back with him to England and eventually incorporated them into the Sex Pistols' image.
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The Dream
by: WudzChorus:
Dream can never run away
It's only you who can take that away
You can be who you wanna be
If you believe in yourself
Verse 1:
Born, fed and raised without a silver spoon
Mama said, son, go to school or be a goon
My ace coon boons
Prayin' hopin' to make it outta the hood soon
So I'm in the kitchen tryna bake that cake
So me and my hungry dawgs can break that bread
Life come at me correct
Or come at me crooked
I'll never die kneelin'
Cos money ain't got no fuckin' feelin' mane
Yo my life is a metaphor
No poet can understand it
My vibe is hot charcoal
No guru can overstand it
For the dough I'm on my toes like a pedicure
Crooked streets growin' up was a detour
The hustle snatched folks I loved the most now
The chalice cloud is my Holy Ghost woah
Makin' it to the top was a nightmare
Now we live the dream
Any nig can make it here
Believe that;
Chorus:
Dream can never run away
It's only you who can take that away
You can be who you wanna be
If you believe in yourself
Bridge:
They say I can't make it
But I'm still here doing it
Coz I like it
And never look back
That's why I never fall down
I never run
I work hard to get this crown
My dream to shine in every city in every town