35. Sheep, Gonjasufi - Al Muid (The Restorer of Life), USA
Im so so excited to tell you about Gonjasufi. I came across his album A Sufi And A Killer and heard the track below. It did blow my mind - in fact I felt my heart burst and for the duration of the song I was experiencing a kaleidoscope of visual excitement and joy. It didn't happen again afterwards but I think I got a taste of what Im trying to create with Electronic Sufi Music. The different musical styles and influences, the rawness, the lyrics it all just hit a spot for me inside and I was in heaven for a moment. The lyrics feel prophetic alongside nostalgic sounds from bollywood come to mind. Was this all a mixture of sounds from my lifes soundtrack rolled into one?? How does it sound to you?
Let me know if you manage to check out the album and any tracks you like. I think the lyrics to the song Sheep below are so innocent like a child trying to make sense of the natural world. It reminded me of Al Muid.
According to my source the 59th name Al Muid is the one, the only one, who is capable of mercifully giving refuge to every single thing. It returns the visible manifestation to the invisible essence. It is the one who brings things to their ultimate end. The Divine quality accepts each one, and everything, without exception, in its return to the source, which is Allah/God.
You are my shepard babe
I wouldn't have it any other way
My heavenly shepherd
Shepherd babe
You're such a good shepherd
Oh heavenly shepherd
We wouldn't have it no other way
Nah nah nah nahhhhh
Instead of a lion
Cause then I wouldn't have to eat
Animals that are dying
I wish I was a sheep
Instead of a lion
Cause then I wouldn't have to eat
This meat that is dying
I wish I was
One of your sheep
Only because
I wouldn't have to kill to eat
Oh how I wish I was
One of your gentle sheep
Only made out of love
Like a bird in retreat
Nah nah nah nahhhhh
If I was a sheep
I'd have to be quick on my feet
Running away all day
From a lioness trying to eat
Some do enough to creep
One of my fellow sheep
Living so humbly
Sympathetic with harmony
Have you ever seen
Two lions wearing meat?
Eagles too quick to creep
One ends up in another's teeth
It wouldn't be this way
If they were eating leaves
Oh how I always pray
I was one of your sheep
I'm a lion babe
Feeding off the sheep that graze
Off the leaf's and blades
I wouldn't have it any other way
I'm a lion babe
See me livin in the shade
I have everyone afraid
Roamin' free so no one's safe