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Riff: War – “Four Cornered Room”

Sep 11, 2014

As we sit here in my four cornered room/I can feel all y’all’s deepest emotions/I know I can’t talk right/But I’m feeling something in the depths of my soul

from Four Cornered Room lyrics by War

Locked up in a dark room with nothing but your thoughts to keep you company. You can either cave in and destroy yourself or embrace it and ride the wave to the other side. The latter is particularly easy, especially when you have an eight-minute magnum opus of pure, unfettered funk to keep you whole.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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