Guadalupe

by jung mudra

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about

This song is about a yearly ritual in my hometown of Santa Fe called Zozobra. In early September every year, we build a giant man and stuff him with paper filled with all our sorrows and gripes from the past year. Then we all get together in a big field downtown and burn him to the ground to symbolically purge the bad juju and make room for new growth. This is why the song says "Catch the flame, burn him down". As we hear him groan and watch him burn, we chant "Burn him!". Our pain is ashes now.

lyrics

Guadalupe, roses in the spring
Where am I going?
What is it that I'm to bring?
Another song to sing

Montezuma, the city after dark
Speeding stop signs
Passing by the park
We spent our days without a reason or a spark

Catch the flame
Burn him down
Old September's come around
All these things
You wish were gone
Are ashes now, just ashes now
I'm moving on

Marigolds were growing everywhere
Like tiny suns I put one in your hair
So soft and unaware

Old Zozobra we burnt him to the ground
By October who will be around
My town, you hardly make a sound

Catch the flame
Burn him down
Old September's come around
All these things
You wish were gone
Are ashes now, just ashes now

To the gulf
The river flows
Tomorrow's what He only knows
When I'm gone
You'll still be here
Even after all these years

The masquerade
Of falling leaves
Is coming to enrapture me
Every day
Another song
Is all I have to carry me

Guadalupe, roses in the spring
Where am I going?
What is it that I'm to bring?
Another song to sing

credits

released February 22, 2022
Ry Mohon - Production
Casey Andersen - Bass

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jung mudra Santa Fe, New Mexico

"Perhaps it was all worthwhile to place one's entire life at the service of art, at the expense of freedom and broad experience, if only in order to be able to once make something this beautiful, something that had not only been experienced and envisioned and received in love, but also executed to the last detail with absolute mastery? It was an important question." - Herman Hesse ... more