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Indian Radio Values

from Rishi by Luke Sweeney

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Traveling through India is like swimming through a thick soup of spiritual energy — there is a different gravity for the soul there. On our way to the holy city of Pushkar, I heard a song come across the car radio and recorded a tiny snip of it. That night I awoke to a song playing in my head (still a common practice for me). It was foreign, but familiar — like a signal from a distant forgotten satellite launched long ago. I stayed up for an hour transcribing the music into a very crude demo and left the rest to be sorted out later. Once Roberto and I started constructing a tune out of the rough blueprint, the little voicemail from that car radio inspired the chorus. Then the words flowed out as if transmitted from that same distant satellite. This song is me navigating through the material plane — still searching, still hurting — on my way to a more meaningful spiritual connection with the people and planet I love.

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What am I supposed to do, baby?
What am I s’posed to say?
I don’t speak your language
Your love’s so far away

I’d love to call you mine, baby
I can’t use a phone
Anything worth a damn, baby
In this life, you never own.

Here I am standing
where my love oughta be
Feels light years away from me
The soldier’s on the run
& the serpent’s in the sea
Cat ran off with my tongue

Take me to the Holy City
The one you know best
I’ll show you my devotion
You show me the rest

Put me in the field, mama
Put me in the fray
Like a mule, I’m herded
Like a fool I’ll stay

Here I am standing
where my love oughta be
Feels light years away from me
The soldier’s on the run
& the serpent’s in the sea
Cat ran off with my tongue

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from Rishi, released November 11, 2022

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A bicycle crash left a young Sweeney with his jaw wired shut for six weeks, and in recovering, his sustenance was on a guitar. What was he chasing?

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