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Tarlabashi Shuffle

from Springtime in a Foreign City by sonofmel

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Tarlabashi Shuffle, born from my old neighborhood
in Istanbul, wandering streets severely short on wealth but rich in tongues, illicit wares, all else under the sun, while watching my shadow slither along the street in worship of it all, wondering where he goes when the
sun goes down: “...to the seedy parts of town and when I come back, I fill your head with crazy dreams and things you've never seen...”

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Tarlabashi Shuffle

Walkin’ alone, big cities and towns, I'm unknown.
Strange tongues, my shadow and I take ‘em in without a sound.
And we look at pretty things, but we never ever look down.

One day I asked my shadow, where do you go when the sun go down?
He lay there on the sidewalk and said, “I go to the seedy parts of town…
& when I come back I fill your head with crazy dreams,
and things you’ve never seen.”

Chorus:
He says he’s a part of me that sees things the other way around…
He says he’s a part of the night that lives the whole day long.

I said “wait a minute you’re my shadow,
I mean I know you, you’re my shadow.”
He laughed & said “look at me boy,
Don’t you see how I blacken things right out…
Most people are bad at bein’ good
You gotta be good getting’ away with bein’ bad…”

Chorus:

So me and my shadow, we go walkin’ around
Me and my shadow, we go walkin’ all around town
We look at pretty things, but we never ever look down.
My shadow’s a part of me that sees things the other way around
My shadow’s a part of the night that lives the whole day long.

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from Springtime in a Foreign City, released April 29, 2017
Written by Sonofmel: guitars, vocals
Bass: Justin Rieken
Percussion: Peter Anderson

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sonofmel Hayward, Wisconsin

Sometimes it takes traveling far from home to find out where one comes from... after combing the world for signs of the sacred among paths of the profane, Sonofmel returns with fistfuls of chords wrapped up in verse that declare though trouble never starves, somewhere high above the maladies of modern man, the sky is still as blue as when Adam first kissed Eve... ... more

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