take cover: “sure thing” – trails and ways

Alright, you guys – it’s Friday and I feel like it’s time for some baby-making music.  But this might not be the kind of baby-making music you’re used to.

TRAILS AND WAYS – the Oakland-based group that brought you “Mtn Tune” earlier this summer – has a new song, and this one’s a cover of Miguel’s R&B slow-jam “Sure Thing.”

Not intriguing enough?  The band redid the verses with what they’re calling “marxist romance lyrics.”  Yeah, now you wanna click play.

Fair warning: I’ve already played this for a few friends and they were singing it all night.  It’s got a groove that’ll stick with you.

Listen for: how many references you catch without peeking at the cheat sheet below.

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How many did you get?  If you caught the one for James & Grace Lee Boggs, we can be best friends.  Check out the interactive lyrics sheet the band put together and tally up your radical cred:

you can bet that, never gotta sweat that.

If you be the Marx, I’ll be your Engels, babe.
If you be the plot, I can be your ruse, boom.
union baby I could be your dues.
If I’m in prison baby you’re my tunnel loose.

cause you’re the suffragette, and I’m the new vote.
you are the miles, I could be your blue note, true though.
you are the bloc, and I can be the soviet.
you can be the talk, and I can be the walk.

even when the sky comes falling,
even when the sun don’t shine,
I got faith in you and I,
so put your pretty little hand in mine.
even when we’re down to the wire babe,
even when it’s do or die,
we can do it baby simple and plain.
this love is a sure thing.

if you be my jimmy, I’ll be your grace lee.
if you’re the picket baby, I could be your tough feet, line it up.
if you’re benjamin I can be yr quote,
neruda baby, I can be your boat, all aboard

spraypaint, I’m the thinner, jackie o, I’m berliner
and it’s you, what can I do to deserve that
angie davis, I’ll be dissent
ya say that I’m the one, cause boy you are a ten

but nothing normative