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”
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