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The City is a Golden Forest

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

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It’s a world of a 2 ‘08, I walk softly through the Butterfly Gate / I hate myself when I feel my weight [I’m a] / Carbonic, symphonic electronic man / With a soul like a Celtic Onyx stone / Kate Bush’s brother on the Jig of Life Tonic-Tone: “Can’t you see where memories are kept bright? Trippin’ on the water like a laughing girl,” oh / Sea rhythm, when the sea’s my world / Blue horizon is the secret of civilization / I get civil when I lay under a tree too / Blue horizon is the birth of a seed who / Springs from the water to the bodily city / Wandering in New York, people with the New Talk / People going so fast / Ignoring the overcast / Skies, no eyes, just a drive to fly high / Artists and wannabe’s holding their hearts inside / Never try to be too clever / Allah, allow us to rock this forever! Soul this forever, it’s a free-time-movement / Intellectuals don’t need to wait for the proven / Take your clothes off and shower in the truth and let Turquoise babies run around your head / With little cupid bows and Blue Hearts instead of arrows. Wash your body for reality shows / I walk the streets in my raggedy clothes / I’m like Bruce Springsteen in the Philadelphia video I’m all about Souls, Fast Hearts and Riches / Never dream about ‘hoes, fast cars or ’ / I’m like a six year old girl with my logic connections -This is funny- when I look in your eyes and suddenly sneeze / I say, “congratulations,” and I hand you a flower... / Shower you with flowers, grab ahold of your hand / Press it to my chest so you feel my beat / Smile of gratitude, love and bad teeth / Yellow on the streets where my breath stank, good grief! [...] We’re all peasants in one way or another / Oh, my brother, when the night befalls us / Light the candle if the moon don’t call us / We stay talkin’ underneath the stars / Laughing at the simple things of this life / Listen to the midnight birds

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from If You Ask Me, Yes (2013), released September 14, 2013
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Lyrics written & performed by Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq, Spring 2008, Nefisa Studio, UK.
Beat produced by Victor 'Victrola' Ramos

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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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