Timothy Scott Mallard, Esquire

How did This is Surely My Elephant come about?

Let me explain, Disney musical style:

Okay I know what it feel like to be young and single / You know the life when your pockets got a bunch of singles / You know taking double shots, saying fuck a single. 

Oh wait, that's Big Sean. Shoot. Let me try again:

Okay I know what it's like to live in a dingle

Got two beds but you sleeping single

Want to mix your plastic call you commingled

Big bro went off to college it's about time

Got my own space now it's about mine

That was perhaps maybe the last time

That I felt like I was at home, I almost cried

I remember thinking things'll never be the same

How I spent 16 years thinking he was lame

Now I had no limits I could change the game

But "Ben and" left and took the Bandit name

[dope chorus]

Is it clear now? 

Crazier than that cat in Cheshire

Hand me a beer now

Above gentle not quite a knight

My girl and I watch the airplanes flight

Wind in my hair
Oh what a night

Call me coach, cause I ain't in first class

Momma raised me to put my class first

So I pray to the sky

Now when I am fly, I ask her

[dope chorus]

What a momentous occasion

to come home and be still away

It's funny how the most anticipated day

Keeps you from being amazing

I went from

Ripped seams to double ply streams

I went from no latrines

to public health dreams

What can I do?

My boy Dawit's still got exams to get through

Demelash has generations to raise

Somehow I'm the one to be praised

Now what's with that?

A cryptic answer at best.