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Rivers of Peace

from If You Ask Me, Yes (2013) by Yoshi

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Oh my life! It’s been so long / I got my health back and I still feel young / I wasted so much time on the gold shine / The ego trying, sweating, crying / Now I’m all about rivers and the woods I’m striding / Hiding, seek, with the munchkins sneaky / Kids with the homemade clothes and the smells of flowers / Free on the breeze wherever it goes (wherever it goes) / I got no needs, just to pray with soul / No such thing as a single still goal / No such thing as a rival MC / let my ego upstream, fighting, empty / All the way back to the stinking city / I’m so happy in my greenest field / My future babies feel the scenic wheel / Solar-God-Shine / Allah is yours and mine / Float downstream with the bells and chimes... [Chorus]

Who’s a Afghan? I ain’t a Afghan / I’m a Universal, I’m a Yellow and Black man / My rainbow heart’s now open for business / New creation, the smell of is-ness / The feel of frog-spawn, the fire of my bodily form / I ain’t a body I’m a super soul / Mama come and see me as I turn to gold / Spin around, dust, like Michael Jackson / I’m a cloud, I’m a flower, I’m a water reaction / A pinball pingin’ in the sky of satisfaction / Everybody wanna be where I be / Do you want to sit next to me? / Dance with me? Go to France with me? Ting-a-ling-bells in the hills of Italy / I’ve had a secret all of these years / I’ve been been stroking it and keeping it with all of my tears / I can see it with my eyes and I can hear it with ears / My teeth tell you that it do exist / So when you ask me cynically, “Why are you always smiling?” I say, “Because I am not a dreamer,” my darling.... [Chorus] [...] (Freestyles)

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from If You Ask Me, Yes (2013), released September 14, 2013
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Beat produced by Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq, 2004-2013, Nefisa Studio UK & USA

Additional keyboards, bass guitar, percussion and vocals by Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq, July 2012, Cue Recordings, Falls Church, VA.

Additional river by God, Rio Cangrejal, La Ceiba, Honduras

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MASTAKAI Los Angeles, California

MASTAKAI, (previously Yoshi / Yusuf Misdaq) has lived many lives in many places. He was making beats, writing lyrics, producing music and singing songs long before he was born. He is from Afghanistan. He will die there, and be reborn again there.

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