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(Grasshopper) Goo (Secular Monk B​-​Side)

from Secular Monk (Single) by Forefeather

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INSTRUMENTAL TRACK:
Bollywood - Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra

This beat is not my intellectual property, and I don't permit you to give me any money for the song I made out of it. That said, I hope you enjoy the song.

3Rhythms is an album inspired by and built with sounds from a trip to India, as part of a collaborative multimedia project with Summer HB.

More information on 3Rhythms the album and project: www.forefeather.com/3rhythms.html

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Nope. Don't even-
*Cathart*
So, this is a story... about...
Do you guys remember when I was, umm...
You know, back in the days...
Beforefeathers!?
*Chirp*
They told me that I would have seen tomorrow by today, but all I know now is you can't unlearn listening.
It was perpetual...
Everything they said to set you loose was just a tool to move you to your weapons... to get you juiced... beckon you to the guru just to flex your sense of truth before you're next in line to learn it, just to humble you.
Someone to one-hundred men is only number one-hundred-one.
But two's enough to threaten everything one-hundred men have been trying to do.
Wonder why your preconcieved guru turned up his nose at you?
Fly solo next time, and know no-one will throw fruit at you.

So if it's chieftan of the birds versus grasshopper, I will sleep among your tribe, and use my pencil for their words.
Grasshopper say:
"Yo I'll bring the bread, if you bring the cheesecake.
Why not we make peace beside feeling?"
Guru says:
"We can't remedy bee stings before feeling bliss brung by the suffering. Nah."
He says: "Though I am king I prefer to ride low, so I bite pride now and follow disciples.
Grasshopper, do you know why the rifle's trained only on the whites of the eyeballs?"
He says: "I've got more eyes than the word 'visibility'."
He says: "I've got more eyes than the word 'me'."
He says: "-But what does that matter? Let's talk about what I don't see, 'cause I see pretty much nothing at all, and actually I see it with a whole lot of clarity.
So grasshopper, tell me what you're after.
Anybody with a handful of a dollar, even with no sense could tell me that you're underwater.
On your honorary semblance of solidarity, sir, swear to me, right now, what you'd give to legitimately learn."

And I said: "Yes, guru!
Hit me with that real life, and let it burn!
I'm trynna feel that voodoo!
I want to see truth!
I want to learn to see through this goddamn roof!
Let it catch fire, I'm breaking through!"

Aw.
*Boom*

So he clocked me.
Right in the side of the face.
I was down for the count, but I got back up.
So here I am.
Just, some goo...

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from Secular Monk (Single), released December 6, 2014
Written, arranged, and performed by Forefeather.
Recorded by Forefeather at BVLC studio.
Instrumental: Bollywood - Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra

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Dedicated to infusing hip-hop with the art and practice of skillful living, Forefeather creates conscious rap music that is danceable, mindfulness-oriented, and celebratory of hip-hop’s lush history.

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