The intro of "Ghost Town," ye's sixth track, happens to be Shirley Ann Lee singing the unfinished song "Someday." Some day, some day/Some day I'll, I wanna wear a starry crown. "Just do that and then let the music do something, then do that again, and that'd be enough for a record.you only want two and a half minutes if you can get it, you know, three minutes maximum." The remaining 1:02 is a conversation between her and a man offering advice. One of the fragments, called "Someday," is only 1 minute and 40 seconds, 38 seconds of which is Shirley singing. Lee, a gospel singer from Ohio who was active in the late 1960s, never completed an official album, but an LP of songs and fragments was finally released in 2012. Following that epiphany, we get a song about making no more mistakes, a song about regaining innocence and potential, and a song about being a father and realizing how problematic and limited your previous views on women were.Ĭlosing out Kids See Ghosts's "4th Dimension" is a sample from an unfinished song recording by Shirley Ann Lee. With Wouldn't Leave being the moment West realizes if he continues such behavior he could lose everything dear to him. I Thought About Killing You, Yikes, and All Mine contain the entirety of the album's combative, arrogant, and antagonistic lines. Which is why the album ends with the prayer, Lord shine your light on me, save me, please. With the "ghosts" of the album's title, the things that haunt you, being reduced to nothing more than clouds moving around that pale in comparison to the spirit, God. The remaining songs all concern themselves with renewed faith, redemption, connection, hope. The middle track, "Freeee," is a pivot-point, a transition from the negative to the positive. They have the most aggressive and egotistical moments. The first three tracks explore darker, uglier thoughts. Kids See Ghosts uses a 3-1-3 album structure. That's fair, but this isn't where the parallels end. One could argue that two songs being affiliated doesn't mean their albums are related. 2)." This is the most blatant connection as Kids See Ghosts features the second part of a song introduced on ye.
I may have buried the lede a bit, as the fourth track on Kids See Ghosts is called "Freeee (Ghost Town, Pt. It's a purposeful artistic choice that, in a small way, links the two projects. Define it as foreshadowing, reference, allusion, motif, thematics-whatever you want. Those lines are Cudi basically saying, "You're so far away from me that I can't feel any love." Is it wild coincidence then that "Feel The Love" is the very first song on Kids See Ghosts? Probably not. On "Ghost Town," Cudi sings, I've been trying to make you love me/But everything I try just takes you further from me.
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