A Music and Lyrics Journey: Washington Heights, Memory, and the Times Around It
By Vernon Snell
Length39m
About this audiobook
**A Music and Lyrics Journey: Washington Heights, Memory, and the Times Around It**
*By Vernon Snell*
Washington Heights is more than a setting in these pages. It is a place carried through memory—its streets, its changing times, and the lives shaped by them.
In this collection, Vernon Snell brings poems and lyrics together as a journey through neighborhood history, personal reflection, struggle, and change. The pieces move through images and memories like scenes in a film, guided by rhythm, repetition, and the sound of a voice telling its own story.
This is Poetic Cinema: writing meant to be read with an ear for the music in the words and an eye for the pictures they create. These are lyrics and poems on the page—not a collection of finished songs or recordings. Read them as one unfolding journey, or enter wherever a line catches your attention.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, Biography and Memoir
Length39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
201 Untitled lyric — “I walk through the shadow”
302 Untitled lyric — “On the streets where the shadows lie”
403 Untitled lyric — “I’ve walked these streets, blueprint in hand”
504 Untitled lyric — “Caught in the cycle”
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605 Untitled lyric — “I hit the streets of Heights”
706 Untitled lyric — “In my Bergen home”
807 Untitled lyric — “Born a label”
908 Untitled lyric — “Caught in Columbus’ chaos”
1009 Untitled lyric — “In the shadow of the stars”
1110 Untitled lyric — “Broken down”
1211 Untitled lyric — “Called it a war on drugs”
1312 Untitled lyric — “Placed in the North”
1413 Untitled lyric — “Crafted zones”
1514 Untitled lyric — “In the game of survival”
1615 Untitled lyric — “Back in the day, the Heights was different”
1716 Untitled lyric — “Sweet high, a momentary flight”
1817 Untitled lyric — “Came to the land of the free”
1918 Untitled lyric — “Washington Heights, the 80s, alive and untamed”
2019 Through Trow Eyes
2120 Untitled lyric — “2024, November 24th”
2221 Untitled lyric — “Roses are red, violets, complex they may be”
2322 War Zone Chronicles
No Language, No Ladders, Just Guts to GrowVernon Snell1h 58m$4.99
Washington Heights Kids: Growing UpVernon Snell1h 32m$2.99
Stories of Us: Kind Hands, Bright Hearts Vernon Snell52m$2.99
Starry Ink: Nadia’s Cosmic AdventuresVernon Snell47m$2.99
Poetic Cinema HistoryVernon Snell1h 35m$4.99
Poetic Cinema HISTORY: BENEATH OUR FEETVernon Snell1h 43m$2.99
SWEET JUICE: The Black Knight of Washington HeightsVernon Snell8h 56m$4.99
THE FLOWERS WERE NEVER THE PROBLEMVernon “The Black Knight” Snell6h 14m$9.99
Money MachineVernon Snell1h 7m$4.99
Trying to Kill Me: A Testimony from the Invisible WarVernon Snell2h 22m$2.99
TESTIMONY: THE STREETS WERE MY TRAININGVernon Snell3h 51m$4.99
The Mutations of Washington HeightsVernon Snell2h 52m$2.99
Ghettos Around the Globe — Volume Five: The Empire of VillainsVernon Snell1h 34m$4.99
GHETTOS AROUND THE GLOBE RATMAN: BEFORE THE INFLUENCEVernon Snell1h 21m$2.99
Ghettos Around the Globe: The Frequency Dreams of RatmanVernon Snell1h 8m$4.99
Ghettos Around the Globe: Book Two — The Hidden Board — A Poetic Cinema ToonVernon Snell2h 12m$4.99
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Around the Globe: The Machine That ListenedVernon Snell3h 12m$4.99
Around the Globe: The Great Division — How the Flowers Forgot ThemselvesVernon Snell1h 27m$4.99
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