Category Archives: Music

Xavier Rudd – Follow the Sun

[expand title=”Lyrics”]Follow, follow the sun
And which way the wind blows
When this day is done
Breathe, breathe in the air
Set your intentions
Dream with care
Tomorrow’s a new day for everyone
A brand new moon and brand new sun

So follow, follow the sun
The direction of the birds
The direction of love
Breathe, breathe in the air
Cherish this moment
Cherish this breath
Tomorrow’s a new day day for everyone
A brand new moon, brand new sun

When you feel life coming down on you like a heavy weight
When you feel this crazy society adding to the strain
Take a stroll to the nearest water’s edge, remember your place
Many moons have risen and fallen long, long before you came
So which way is the wind blowing
What does your heart say

So follow, follow the sun
And which way the wind blows
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Xavier Rudd – Spirit Bird

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Give it time and we wonder why, do what we can laugh and we cry
And we sleep in your dust because we’ve seen this all before
Culture fades with tears and grace, leaving us stunned hollow with shame
We have seen this all, seen this all before
Many tribes of a modern kind doing brand new work same spirit by side
Joining hearts and hands and ancestral twine, ancestral twine
Many tribes of a modern kind doing brand new work same spirit by side
Joining hearts and hands and ancestral twine, ancestral twine

Slowly it fades
Slowly we fade
Slowly we fade
Slowly we fade

Spirit bird he creaks and groans, she knows she has seen this all before
She has seen this all before, she has
Spirit bird he creaks and groans, she knows she has seen this all before
She has seen this all before, she has

Slowly we fade
Slowly it fades
Slowly we fade
Slowly it fades
Slowly we fade

Soldier on, soldier on my good countrymen
Keep fighting for your culture now, keep fighting for your land
I know it’s been thousands of years and I feel your hurt and
And I know it’s wrong and you feel you’ve been chained and broken and burned
And those beautiful old people, those wise old souls
Have been ground down for far too long
By that spineless man, that greedy man, that heartless man
Deceiving man, that government hand taking blood and land
Taking blood and land and still they can
But your dreaming and your warrior spirit lives on and it is so so so
strong
In the earth, in the trees, in the rocks,
In the water, in your blood and in the air we breathe
Soldier on, soldier on my good countrymen
Keep fighting for your children now, keep fighting for your land

Slowly we fade
Slowly it fades
Slowly it fades
Slowly we fade

Give it time and we wonder why, do what we can, laugh and we cry
And we sleep in your dust because we’ve seen this all before

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How Trauma Is Carried Across Generations

“Transgenerational transmissions take on life in our in dreams, in acting out, in “life lessons” given in turns of phrase and taught us by our family. Discovering transmission means coming to know and tell a larger narrative, one from the preceding generation. It requires close listening to the stories of our parents and grandparents, with special attention to the social and historical milieu in which they lived — especially its military, economic and political turmoil.”

-Psychology Today article, here.

Nigel Stanford – Cymatics: Science VS. Music

“Cymatics, from Greek: κῦμα, meaning “wave”, is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by Hans Jenny (1904-1972), a Swiss follower of the philosophical school known as anthroposophy. Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste or liquid.[1] Different patterns emerge in the excitatory medium depending on the geometry of the plate and the driving frequency.”

Wikipedia

Jay IDK – God Said Trap

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My life been on a better tip ever since i been selling that pack
I wonder how much better it would get if I cooked up crack
I could sell an O of the green in a week and a half
Imagine if that shit was white, hmmm… let me do the math
Ima pull up in an Audi when I push that powdee
Push the button start it up if po po come I’m outty
If a nigga come up shorty on my re up money
Murk em
Don’t you ever doubt me all my niggas rowdy, all my niggas rowdy
All my niggas whip that arm in hammer
All em armed with hammers
Fuck with me they make you disappear
Allah Ka Ka Zam ya
Juggling for my niggas in the jammer
If i hear you tellin
Put some money on my nigga book’s
Leave ya body smelling
Shaq with the free throw I got the bricks
And if the judge try to bargin I plead the fith
N if I win ain’t you stopping DA I’m sorry
I’m flipping work till my Audi turn to a rari

[Pre-Hook]
If you need that coke
It’s right here
If you need that dope it’s right here
If you need that’s weed it’s right here
That PCP
It’s right here
If you need that lean it’s right here
If you need a pound it’s right here
Your connect got a drought I’m right here

[hook]
I could buy a brick for a dollar
On gawd
I’m getting money every time I’m in the streets
My nigga it’s a lituation
On gawd
Everytime I move an OZ in the or a key
Gotta choppa that’ll lay you down
On gawd
N I can show you if you niggas wan see
My nigga it’s a celebration
On Gawd
Every time we beat the case and get released
Yay yay yay yay

Yesterday my homie pulled up in his brand new Honda Accord
He seen a porche that his credit said he couldn’t afford
What is a dream that you see but you ain’t working towards?
Part of the speech that I have him when I fronted him 4 
Kelows of the blow blow
Cut it down
Cook it up
That will make
Ocho triple oh oh
80 racks bring it back buy his own key I ain’t gotta sell shit
Yea that’s the way the game go
See that’s more dough than he started with
That’s enough dough to buy him a new whip
If he stack up he gon be a new crib
Meanwhile I’m sitting here getting so rich
God dammit that’s the shit
Got dammit this life
I ain’t gotta think twice
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My nigga I’m good
And every time I jugg
I eat steak with the rice
Silver spoon off the kids
A dream wedding for the wife
The only thing that I risk is that shit looking like
Neno
New jack
When the hopped out the van
With the strap Blap Blap
I keep saying Ima stop someday
Girlfriend saying Ima get caught one day
I can stop till I get what I want okay
Only problem is my wants never go away
I want more Cars
More close
More hoes
And the requires more dough
N if I stop then is repos
Foreclose
Fuck that I need a mill man so where the coke and the pills at

[pre hook]
If you need that coke
It’s right here
If you need that dope it’s right here
If you need that’s weed it’s right here
That’s pcp
It’s right here
If you an ounce it’s right here
If you need a pound it’s right here
Your connect got a drought I’m right here

[hook]
I could buy a brick for a dollar
On gawd
I’m getting money every time I’m in the streets
My nigga it’s a lituation
On gawd
Everytime I move an OZ in the or a key
Gotta choppa that’ll lay you down
On gawd
N I can show you if you niggas wan see
My nigga it’s a celebration
On Gawd
Every time we beat the case and get released
Yay yay yay yay

[Ash Riser]
South side
West side
North side
All the money comes to me when you get high
East side 3 side world wide
If you hustle on my streets better pay tides
Whip that
Flip that
Get back
When the re up comes we gon spend stacks
South side
West side
North side
When it’s time to take my spot
They gon
(gun shots)

Aye yo check the trunk for the work!
Aight!

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The Lumineers – Angela

When you left this town, with your windows down
And the wilderness inside

Let the exits pass, all the tar and glass
‘Til the road and sky align

The strangers in this town,
They raise you up just to cut you down
Oh Angela it’s a long time coming

And your Volvo lights lit up green and white
With the cities on the signs

But you held your course to some distant war
In the corners of your mind

From the second time around
The only love I ever found
Oh Angela it’s a long time coming

Home at last

Were you safe and warm in your coat of arms
With your fingers in a fist

Did you hear the notes, all those static codes
In the radio abyss?

Strangers in this town,
They raise you up just to cut you down
Oh Angela it’s a long time coming
Oh Angela spent your whole life running away

Home at last
Home at last

Vacancy, hotel room, lost in me, lost in you
Angela, on my knees, I belong, I believe

Home at last
Home at last
Home at last
Home at last

Home at last
Mmm