Tribal drumbeats pounding
Trumpets and violins sounding
Eruptions of volcanic fountains
Flying over snowcapped mountains
Rain dominates my forest
Thundering down in torrents
Boons to the water courses
And heralds of great importance
Massifs maintain silence
Escarpments met out violence
Esplanades best trod milage
Clouds create Sky Islands
Rivers run and spray off the cateracts
Display the grace of acrobats
We want to return to our habitats
And learn to discern the turns of the avalanche
I look to the Earth to find inspiration
Meditations of high vibration
Positivity a sublime innovation
Unity is my destination
Respect to all living creatures
All of them are humanity's teachers
Elk Buffalo Fox and Beaver
They are our relatives and true believers
So peace to the people who are living in yurts
Relief to the people who have no shirts
Release the hold on gold deep in the dirt
Belief in love will heal the Earth
Feel the energy of the land you're on
What you're standing on and what you're landing on
It's the Metatron jamming through the Gamelon
I give my blessings to the plants of the Amazon
This is our island in the sky
You can live your life and still wonder why
Maintain a smile and keep it nice
Respect the land and comfort the children when they cry
I run through the jungle just to kick up dust
I'm on a gleeful spree and I'm just ripping it up
I reside with the tribes who are vibeing it up
And survive every time when they're sipping their cups
I'm going to fly through the canopy of sanity's lanes
Because we're jamming like Marley is a part of my game
We started the same but part of me is harder to train
And incarnated related to statements tapered with flame
I maintain though change is a universal concept respect the traditions
And I do it with a sonnet I'm on it
Doctors say conditions are chronic
Because I always keep my lyrics so fluent and honest
Bust syntax pin back the pages in the wind
Mariah's desired and I'm inspired to begin
Yet again the Dervish is beginning to spin
I'm on a tortex vortex will all four fins
It's revolving evolving and solving the problems
Rectify the situation though we didn't start it
Cultivating patience in Dubuque and Harlem
In the parliament with Solomon Bailey and Barnum
While the stars in the sky keep rotating in fact
Just to punctuate the centuries like sentries intact
They're sending me back to times of diviners in black
And in the white with the balance of thier talents and their tact
With the luminous voluminous humanist homophones
I'm consuming this like my dog's exhuming the bones
Assuming the phone doesn't ring and ruin my tone
I will return to the essence of my effervescent poems
Bless the microphones bless the crowds
Bless the planet bless it loud
A testament to positivity that makes us proud
And get down to the revolution sound we found.
This is our island in the sky
You can live your life and still wonder why
Maintain a smile and keep it nice
Respect the land and comfort the children when they cry
credits
from Antidote,
track released April 7, 2011
Ryan Ramirez plays drum kit
Sammy Lett plays flute
Matthew Dean plays Djembe
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