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Follow Your Heart.

from Sick Sick Sicks by The Sick Sick Sicks

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Woke one day couldn’t take no more took up the banjo took for the door
Rat race to place for me, gonna see the world, gonna be free
In the town square played for dimes,
Rocking out the beat, making up rhymes
Night soon fell, hitched a ride
It was an old pickup with the devil inside

He said hey mr dali can I see that banjo
Passed it along and he had a go
Played it like none I'd ever heard
It was hypnotizing and quite absurd

He sang

Follow your heart boy, to the ends of the earth
Follow your heart boy, for what it's worth

Took me to a field with a fire in the middle
Folks were dancing to the sound of a fiddle
Banjo in my hand, started to play,
Out came the tune that your hearing to day

partied till dawn, till the sun did rise,
feasted on Flesh and jams and pies
The feeling in the air was like no other
Joyus and free like a boat with no rudder
but the party was done so we hit the road
Off to a land of silver and gold
In a big old city played for a dollar,
Devil came by and gave me a holler

He sang,

Follow Your Heart Boy
To the ends of the Earth
Follow your Heart Boy for what it's worth

To a basement party we jammed like wild
the boys were crazy and the girls were riled
powder to my left and pills to my right
things got funky on that faithful night

devil was laughing and sawing the fiddle
looked at me and posed a riddle

He said “You've seen the lights of the city bright,
but the country's been fading since you've taken flight
people are deserting in droves these days
are you happy hiding from the sun's gold rays

His cryptic words gave me a shiver.,
So I put down the bottle and thought with my liver
city is expanding, no country remaining
I asked some native the key to maintaining
they said their ancestors lived in the sap of the trees
and to listen to the deer when you're ill at ease

I moved out to the woods and lived off the land
Zero foot print, baby, ain’t it grand
when the devil comes round I say no thanks
no need for your bars or your guards or your tanks

If the moral had a story and I think it should
Don't ever mix up what's new for what good
Don't ever mix up what's new for whats good.

But always.

Follow your heart boy, to the ends of the earth
Follow your heart boy, for what it's worth.

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from Sick Sick Sicks, released June 3, 2012

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Maxim "Banjo Man" Cossette Ottawa, Ontario

Gena Ree of musicinkorporated.com had to say about SDL:
A performer that keeps the audience on their toes. The great thing about Dali is that you don't know what will happen from one song to the next. With his stage presence & between song-banter, Salvador Dali Lama is truly nothing short of a good old-fashioned entertainer. A throwback to another time, when a performer had to really BRING IT! ... more

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