20 Aug 2021 | Bologna > stream #19 on Tributaries = «Jordan», 1 of the later additions, a simple song that maybe we recorded in a day > don't think we even wrote down what we were doing > this song + most every stream on Tributaries uses sampled gamelan gongs in a pentatonic scale + the guitar was probly tuned accordingly to DADAAD > that's Peter Markus @ the beginning reading «what the river told us to do» > rest of the lyrics:

Jordan

rivers begin where they end
if 1 considers rain + jet stream winds l
look deeper into grainy sands
the sublimation from the wind-swept lands

ever reaches sea
if u count the sea of Galilee

every night we sleep in the riverbed
the Dead sea is 1000 feet from dead

we’ve shared this bed for ½ our lives
the other ½ we slave 9 to 5

the next 360 starts at 0 degrees
in the nexus ‘tween land + sky + sea
the scrolls are rolled + cloned into our bones
the text embedded in motherboards + phones

who needs vows when the water is crystal clear
just stick your tongue into my ear

just stick your tongue into my ear (x2)

we heard the Okavango never reaches a sea
nor does Colorado cuz of man-made greed
dead as a nude corpse floating prone downstream
supine on a bed of pine needles is more our speed

who needs vows when the water is crystal clear
just stick your tongue into my ear

+ hear's the video :

> Stream #20: «Anacostia»