Standard CD-case, with full colour booklet. Clean, sheen & mainstream.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Hand-stitched cover made of burlap / hessian & wool fibres. 33 stitches on each side /// Comes with CD and 16-page colour booklet, featuring liner notes, complete lyrics, beautiful photographs & paintings /// Highly limited edition. Each one slightly different.
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lyrics
I got chirpy chimes and pinewood forests, and melodies telling me ‘Yoshi is a florist’ / I make flowers, prune ’em and tune ‘em and turn ’em into the prettiest snowflake moons and / Fall on your ears so gentle and soothing, lyrics with love for ya self-improvement / Lick ya heart, Lord, gotta keep on moving / The magic of life is in the flow that you bring / Everybody’s got it like a song that you sing / Who’s in? Who’s on board? It’s choo-choo-ing! / The train of Now won’t wait for later, procrastinate, then it’s too late, you get vapour / Be the news, don’t read them papers, I’d rather be a bird than a staple or a stapler / I surely would / Get good, catapaulted, trampoline into my own scene for a while / Don’t watch CNN, I don’t like to be insulted, don’t watch Al-Jazeera ‘cos I like to smile / Everybody scared to be a non-conformer, and the others non-conform for the sake of non-conforming / They want you so badly plugged in, soul and attention decidedly all in / [They] got a mainstream hole just for you to fall in / Staying informed is now the golden calf, they want a mind that’s full and a empty heart / Fall off the radar, go step in the dark / Go take a walk in the park, talk to that guy who always waters the plants / Step off your self, take a ride to outside, sample the HD clarity of eyes / They were made to see sky, your heart, to feel high / Real human beings are spirit, they don’t die [...]
Don’t talk, more think, wash my feet in the sink / I turn pink, so pretty when my eyes are glistening / I spit love even if you ain’t listening, I don’t care, I’m like air or glycerine / so you no-boys can keep on whispering / You fear what you don’t understand, you so bland, I forgive, ‘cos you don’t mean to hurt me / you corny, calling me ‘artsy’ and ‘quirky,’ small vocab, limited imagination / Small possibilities in a small nation / State of the art is downlow, cagey, everybody gettin’ laid, made and pasty / So titilated and so soon outdated / Come and see the pink flowers on blue boards [I’m] riding on a cloud in a Cadillac Eldorado / White leather seats, sun-kissed softly, white heartbeats, lovely, looping / ... I’m a lover of Truth and I will kiss the starlings, birds land on my hand ‘cos I got soul / Mama come and see me as I rub the coal, dusty dirty, diamond destiny / I won’t rest til you see the best in me / I won’t rest ‘til my forehead smiles, ‘til my soul rises out of my mouth like a sun / Showers on everyone, True-World-Unity / I wrote this song ’cos I love you, are you feeling me?
credits
from If You Ask Me, Yes (2013),
released September 14, 2013
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Beat produced by Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq, 2005, Nefisa Studio (UK)
Lyrics written & performed by Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq, October 2012, Nefisa Studio (USA)
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