Sunn M'Cheaux is a multi-talented musician, songwriter, poet and performance artist.
Music as Poetry as Music
"I dedicate this music to all who ever dare to be the lover of an artist. How many songs, paintings, poems, novels… lives would not exist without you as our muse? We can be a moody, selfish, promiscuous and paranoid bunch… to say the very least. For your patience, endurance, love, support (emotional and financial), faith and most of all encouragement… we are forever indebted to you. I am forever indebted to you. Selah...." -- Sunn
U Should Be Here With Me
“Baby, for obvious reasons, I can’t dedicate this song to you by name.
But you know I’m talking to you. Listen.
I’ve been thinking a lot about you, lately.
And I just wanted to talk to you for a second…
If you don’t mind”
_Sweetheart, I’m not a perfect man, but I can be the perfect man for you
And understand the truth is so much more than what meets the eyes
‘Cause even though you never want me to see you cry…
I know you do
_I wanna hush you and kiss ya’ when
You turn to me to discuss him, but we’re just friends
And I don’t wanna jeopardize what we have now
Although, you used to be mine, that just the past now
_I always knew who you would keep if it was him or me
You chose him and now it seems he wasn’t meant to be
I know you had to keep a hold to save your family
And now you gotta let it go to save your sanity
_Sweet memories could never render me your enemy
From the moment that we met until infinity… I’m in too deep
This sinner speaks seeking remedy and inner peace
In your prayers, do you mention me? Remember me?
_I used to kiss on your calves, while squeezing ya thighs and baby
Gripping your ass, while deep inside ya, maybe...
I got a Dirty Mind… but, if you give me a Sign,
I’ll make it worth ya Time… Think about it
_If all he does is make you cry
Turns your love to pain inside
How can you ever have what you need?
_You deserve the finer things
But more than furs and diamonds
Baby girl it’s too plain to see…
You should be here with me
_Listen… some may say that I ain’t right ‘cause I’m
Wishing to have another man’s wife as mine… fine
As long as you know my intentions are pure
It ain’t all about just making love… I’m in it for more
_I’ll never limit you or leave you insecure, home alone
While I’m chillin’ with my friends at the bar
Plus, all the pleasure that you care for, I’ll give to you
To feel your breath against my ear as you’re whispering “Ooo…”
_I understand the way it makes you feel
When you’re living with a man who barely pays the bills
And it don’t make you a gold digger ‘cause you want
To have a husband who can hold you and hold his own.
_I know to ask you for a chance, doesn’t take a song
But, I just wanna see you dance… does that make me wrong?
It’s been so long since I’ve seen on your pretty face
Serenity and the gleam that lit up the place…
I hope this makes you smile
_For everything you’re looking for
Your every single want and more
Lady, this is where you should be
_Even if you need time on your own
You never have to be alone
As long as I’m alive, can’t you see?
You should be here with me
_I love caressing your hair… everywhere… especially there
I love to smell our sex in the air
And wetting your ear with slow hot tongue
A Southern gentleman… you come before I come
_The outcome of your potpourri in my lungs, I’m sprung
From the inside out like Jacks in boxes
We can do it my way like Frank Sinatra’s
Or have it your way like BK’s, either way
_Make a long story short like a synopsis
We ain’t gotta be up in the ‘Lac in fox furs or
Sippin’ on somethin’ in the back that sparkles
I just wanna be sure that you prosper
_But don’t sleep, I ain’t sellin’ you dreams…
We both know it ain’t me to just be beggin’ routinely
Plus… with or without me you deserve the top shelf
Even with somebody else…
I’m still your friend
You should be here with me…
Born in rural South Carolina (the sixth of eleven children) to devout Pentecostal Holiness minister & missionary parents, Sunn M'Cheaux was literally a born soul singer. Forbidden by his father from singing or playing instruments in church, due to his youthful unruliness, Sunn secretly honed his musical skills on borrowed instruments. Within a few years of loitering in pawn shops, music stores and often sneaking his oldest brothers' drums or guitar, Sunn's tenacity paid off. He was self-taught over 20 instruments by the age of 17! It was also at 17 that Sunn left home to seek his place in the musical world.
Now a prolific songwriter, singer, poet, performer & producer, Sunn has traveled the world as an independent artist. "Being independent helped me learn a delicate balance that makes or breaks the career of an artist... how to say what I need to say and what people want to hear, in the same breath. My music fortunately speaks to, with and for so many people who support me unconditionally. Not bad for a preacher's kid who simply had something to say."
Sunn creates and performs from "The City of Lost Angels" along the Pacific Ocean coastline of California.
His music, poetry, personal data, CD info and performance dates are on-line at My Space here and here.
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