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The Life of Excitement

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

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There’s a sacred text / In my heart / There’s a secret text / Invisible dart / It won’t make it into any bibliography / It won’t make it outside of my mind ‘til eternity / I eat li-chee fruits, I eat raisins, I eat colorful magical things that God has made them, God has raised them / / /

I am a Gypsy Lover, Hu / I walk around modern Earth / I don’t have friends to tweet to / Remain on the edge of the surf / Foam-cliffside-edge of the Universe / Cloud-cover, cloud-dance, disperse / I eat mango fruits, I eat figs if I find them, I look close at all the sparkling specks, I see, God has signed them, He has timed them / / /

I pray many times a day / I drape fabrics over my head / I take mystery steps into another way / I see people who we think that they’re ‘dead’ / I see them smiling and they moving their heads / I see them Yes-ing and they don’t leave me guessing / I take water, I take honey / I take air and it feel kinda funny / / / [...]

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from If You Ask Me, Yes (2013), released September 14, 2013
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Violin by Nistha Raj
Tabla by Ebadullah Ebi Ebadi
Vocals and production by Yusuf Misdaq
July 2012, Cue Recordings, Falls Church, VA

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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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