Intro (Single Version)

from Secular Monk (Single) by Forefeather

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Secular Monk is the second single, as well as the fourth track from the album 3Rhythms, released on December 28th, 2014.

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

This intro has been seperated from the bulk of the song "Secular Monk" for the single version of this release. On the album, the 'intro' plays right into the song, with no break.

lyrics

(Tea stirring)

(People Approaching)

(Madhur)
...Rock over there.

(Summer)
Mhm, oh, the big one, I saw it. Yeah.

(Madhur)
The big one, behind your cottage.
So that was...
When work was starting here, I used to sit there, for hours, and read.
And everybody would be working around me and... (laughs) I would be shamelessly reading. (Laughs)
And um, yeah. That's what I needed. I just needed to be here, that's all.
So, and I was just, brooding on that rock I was sitting on, and I was imagining what I would, you know, I want to do with the place, what I want to do.
I - I... was very very attracted to that one piece of rock, and I wanted to do something. So I was just wondering whether one could sculpt it.
And... by my realizing that there's no need to sculpt it.
It is as sculpted as it should be.
So, this is my ode to that rock.
To Angelo, as in, Michelangelo.

(Voices begin to banter in Hindi in background.)

(Madhur's poem)
Proud and tall, stand I.
Like the chapel towering, inert.
Or the David, breaching the sky.
Cause Him,
Our master, our lord.
The craftsman
Of the highest high.
Him, who crafted thee.
Crafting, for eternity.
From what little of Him, need I.

credits

from Secular Monk (Single), released December 6, 2014

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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.