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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Arat Kilo
Arat Kilo
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Michaël Havard
Michaël Havard
Composer
Fabien Girard
Fabien Girard
Composer
Samuel Hirsch
Samuel Hirsch
Composer
Gérald Bonnegrace
Gérald Bonnegrace
Composer
Aristide Gonçalves
Aristide Gonçalves
Composer
Florent Berteau
Florent Berteau
Composer
Mamani Keïta
Mamani Keïta
Songwriter
Mike Ladd
Mike Ladd
Songwriter

Lyrics

There’s a garden
There’s a gown
Hold that gown
In the time of Duke & Satch
The whole band would roll
Out the bus to buy new white
Shirts every morning if lucky
The night before soaked through after 3 sets minimum
They came out of pocket
The price of dignity
Or self tolerance
It’s not lost on me that this is
Another afrobeat band with two and half black people in it
Oh but what about the gowns
Far too precious to think of throwing
Poets are always talking to dead
Talking to trees
Entire countries
The Gods
A universe
But how often
Do we say-
Excuse me, am I interrupting something?
Is this a good time?
Don’t get me wrong there are exceptions
But mostly we feel we are
Doing the world a favor
Barging in verse a blazing
For all we know
The mountain is in the middle of lunch
Since I was young The Ash
Would give me voice
To all my small world
Making it larger
Than the deep blue above
When I converted to Islam
I was alone in the woods
With dear friends drunk on whiskey and herb
The maple was my minaret
I climbed to the top
Where the branches bend
The banter and bottles
Far below
Until an angel followed
Me to the branch above
The angel drunk
The wood dead
It broke and she fell past me
So far past
For a moment everything was still
Except for eternity
Except for The Ash
Screaming in wind
Screaming in wind
Screaming in wind
Written by: Aristide Gonçalves, Fabien Girard, Florent Berteau, Gérald Bonnegrace, Mamani Keïta, Michaël Havard, Mike Ladd, Samuel Hirsch

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