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Dennis

from 3Rhythms by Forefeather

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(Field recorder turning on)
Okay...

(Singing bowl being played)

(Singing bowl salesman chanting in sanskrit)

(Ravi)
...dirty, as well, but the ghats are very nice.
When you sit there,
You know you, like...
It's the river, when you watch the river,
it's like you are looking mirror, you know?
You are understanding yourself much.

(Singing bowl salesman still chanting)

(Forefeather)
Don't trip.
Don't trip, I'm already broken.
I hope this (I hope this) put my soul into motion,
I'm goin' in. (So I'm goin' in)
I'm goin' in.
I'm goin' in,
'Cause if anything can light my way then they say the river can.
(The river can.)
The river can.
(The river can.)
The river can, and I think I'm gonna need everything cleansed,
So I think I- (I'm goin' in)
I'm goin' in.
(I'm goin' in.)
I'm goin' in.

And they say that in just a moment I could wash every sin away, (every sin away)
And I'm a definite sinner, but with the way life's been for me, (with the way life's been for me)
I wonder could it even have happened any differently?
And would I do it again? (And would I do it again?)
Absolutely would, and might even begin again after finishing this purification.
I'm a man.
I'm a human.
I'm a problem.
I'll be doing what we do best, probably embedded in conflict 'til the end,
But if I'm ever going to ascend from this cycle I'm stuck in, the waters of the river Ganges hopefully might help me begin.
(Mama might help me begin, so I'mma swim.)

So I'mma swim,
And don't ask me when I might be coming back up,
'Cause I've been buried by all this domestication,
And I ain't really trynna let all that stuff come.
(So I'mma swim)
So I'mma swim, and if I can't seem to erase this when I scrub,
Then I'm funna just float and see where this thing runs.

Near the mouth of the Ganges River there's a town called Rishikesh where my sister and I met this man selling singing bowls and his name was Dennis.
It was a pretty brief interaction but in the moments that I met this man, I think I maybe learned more about being human than I ever have,
(I'm a human. I'm a shell.)
Because you know it's not so bad,
But we got soul and it's so hard to let it sit there and soften like something's broken.
I'm living, and I'm gonna bring it all with.
So don't trip.
It's all good.
Come swim.

So don't trip.
So don't trip, I'm already broken.
(I hope this-)
I hope that this can put my soul into motion,
(I'm goin' in.)
I'm goin' in
(I'm goin' in.)
I'm goin' in.
(I'm goin' in)
Because if anything can light my way then they say the river can.
The river can.
(The river can.)
The river can.
(The river can.)
-And I'm gonna need everything cleansed.
I'm goin' in.
(I'm goin' in.)
I'm goin' in.
(I'm goin' in.)
I'm goin' in.

Now I already know that there's something inside me. (There's something inside me.)
But don't trip, I'll get down to the bottom of this finally. (Finally... Finally... Finally...)
I just wanna know where the liberty's hiding.
I'm a million miles from everything I know, and I don't want to be alone.
So let's go.
Mama Ganges, carry me home.
I can find my flow in the spiritual.

(So don't trip,)
And I don't really know if you noticed, but there's a lot more broken than what you're hoping to fix,
but if you can recognize that all these shackles are just the components that make a beautiful life what it is then maybe you can see relinquishing the suffering's really possible in literally any given moment.
So know this,
And go ahead and jump in,
But don't forget to listen to your soul, my friend.

(Ravi)
Since my childhood I am here.
So I've met- (coughs) many people, you know?
Several people they are depressed from them life, they are not happy, and, they come to find out themselves.
(Zac)
Here? Huh...
(Ravi)
No, not here, like, you know, India...
There are three kind of people come.
One, they are tourist.
You know?
They just, come, take pictures, you know, with these record devices(?).
Go to hotel(?). Go back. You know?
Second, the are travelor. You know?
They be with locals. They understand the culture.
They try to know, you know, where they are.
And third, is one, like, who is, uh, spiritual.
People, like, who want to be spiritual.
Who want to know about themselves.
So, which one you are?

(Forefeather)
So don't trip, cause I've been broken.
I hope this just put my soul into motion again.
I'm goin' in.
I'm goin' in.
I'm goin' in, 'cause if anything can light my way then they say the river can.
(The river can.)
The river can.
(The river can.)
The river can, and I think I'm gonna need everything cleansed,
So I think I- (I'm goin' in)
I'm goin' in.
(I'm goin' in.)
I'm goin' in.
(I'm goin' in,)
I'm trynna swim.
I'm trynna swim.
I'm goin-
I'm goin in.

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from 3Rhythms, released January 2, 2015

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