All In The Circle, by Shahmen

All In The Circle

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1.	Many Miracles Pt. 1 / No Slippin' 02:40	lyrics	buy track
[Verse 1] Fall into the wishing well licking heaven kissing hell Checking for the wounds from the knives in the eyes of these Jezebels Sailing past the big cake you can see my ribcage As a hunger grows the crows kick it where I sit man Follow down the dark road see how bright my heart grows Learn from the school in the pool where the sharks flow All you taste like big fish survival based on fitness The writers of the Bible, and Darwin paying witness The Devil’s on my shit list, trying to steal my wishes Kill my inspiration but its money over bitches I be on my mission, holding – no slippin’ This is the link that’s always been missing [Verse 2] Listen here get it clear, human in the mirror Watch the sun rise as the stars all disappear Even the blind boy can see that something’s hidden here Who can tell what it is, it probably couldn’t fit in ears But it’s always there comfortable or feeling weird Hidden in the pit of your stomach, somewhere near Can you read the lines in your hand and count the years Like a tree stump or a drunk with a hundred beers Lined up on the wall, could you count them all? Or make a fake psychic crack all the crystal balls See it doesn’t take a mason to break a wall And to make it fall I build up off the call To give it all until the point that the all is gone Somehow a garden’s grown up in this heart of stone Find surviving wrapped all around my bones Lungs are leaves I breathe in the breeze that is blowing Flowers bloom out my veins till the pain is gone Many Miracles [Verse] And it’s been twenty something years Growing up upon this planet Tryin’ to learn the way the world turns And how I’m going to manage Without carrying a ton And get to bandage up the damage Heart made of flesh but my head is made of granite rock I’m just a man in a box Except I got a couple of windows and a door that locks And a chair where I sit and collect my thoughts Unless I come home and find me a Goldie Locks The grizzly bear that didn’t get no sleep (during the winter) Now he’s standing high on two feet (looking for dinner) But the forest just barren the city, it’s the only place left Populated by humans consuming ’til they face death All with their different beliefs on who has made them What does life mean? What’s the right thing? And when you die are you leaving or arriving? I take a breath and feel the high just from surviving [CHORUS] I know you’re asking of your life what does it all mean I know I’m asking when I write what does it all mean These trees grown upon the ground just so I’ll breathe And you’re trying to name the God creating all things
2.	Many Miracles Pt. 2 01:41	lyrics	buy track
[Verse] And it’s been twenty something years Growing up upon this planet Tryin’ to learn the way the world turns And how I’m going to manage Without carrying a ton And get to bandage up the damage Heart made of flesh but my head is made of granite rock I’m just a man in a box Except I got a couple of windows and a door that locks And a chair where I sit and collect my thoughts Unless I come home and find me a Goldie Locks The grizzly bear that didn’t get no sleep (during the winter) Now he’s standing high on two feet (looking for dinner) But the forest just barren the city, it’s the only place left Populated by humans consuming ’til they face death All with their different beliefs on who has made them What does life mean? What’s the right thing? And when you die are you leaving or arriving? I take a breath and feel the high just from surviving [CHORUS] I know you’re asking of your life what does it all mean I know I’m asking when I write what does it all mean These trees grown upon the ground just so I’ll breathe And you’re trying to name the God creating all things
3.	Mice 04:39	lyrics	buy track
[VERSE 1] The weight has been lifted I buried the knife (buried) Here comes the elephant carried by mice Here to marry the mic (marriage) The one tusk cut dipped in blood Now dare me to write (dare me) Watch a murder of crows Turn into a pack of wolves And prowl the streets for the feast they owe Fat sacks and a stack of gold Get blown and turn back to crows I hear evil I see evil, but I speak needle Full of medicine for all of these dead people Sight beyond sight Carry the eyes of a dead eagle treading in the twilight Leather bag of bones browns when the sun is shown Ten fingers that have touched the globe Ten toes to the dusty road One skull made of bone ’bout to touch the throne [VERSE 2] Eskimo with an icepick Chipping icebergs down when I write shit Priceless life lives off papyrus High into the sky Catches fire and falls right into your iris Wipe the ash from your eyelashes And follow on the white rabbit Tonight you might catch it (catch-it) Been clinging on to madness But I finally built a kingdom from my passion So start to divvy up the cash and I pull the next world wonder out the back alley trash can A vision everlasting They try to get em’ but they couldn’t build a prison that would trap him But in this land here the shaman’s a king Better follow your dreams or fall deep into the hollow of rings I’ve gone into tomorrow it seems to suck the sorrow out, I spit my piece [VERSE 3] Wake up face up with a heart to get right And the world has gone wrong I’m darker than midnight But I’m brighter than Zeus’ strikes from rolling these two dice Tell me the world ends well I guess we got tonight Dance on my own grave this ground is now sacred The art, well it takes time my hands well they take bread The engine in my heart starts to run in on hatred No one make it far in this world with the faceless Raise out the graves that get dated to fallen Goodbye for them now no I’m out for my callin’ Staring out my chips ’bout to push them all in Standing on the cliffs one slip and I’m falling [BRIDGE] I wrote this one on Sunday with no sun rays Under a grey and blue sky thinking one thing Be a king by the time that the sun came Now I rhyme while it shines like gold plates [CHORUS] Here comes the elephant carried by mice Carried by mice, ca-carried by mice Here comes the elephant Here comes the elephant Here comes the elephant
4.	StrayDog LoveSong 03:26	lyrics	buy track
[VERSE 1] There’s grey clouds out but the day’s still sunny And the land made of blood and milk and honey Four walls and a floor and a roof and a door And a window where I sit and watch the cold world war Its the mad dash to get cash here while the shit lasts Say it ends soon so we live fast Got me buying flowers every other day Just to pick em all apart and try and smoke em in your face Want a taste from the river that cleans the sinner Was in love at breakfast but hate by dinner Still trying really to balance out the center But you never get the sweet without the bitter I pull my hood on when I head out in the city at night Put my headphones on to a song I can write Start to freestyle to every little thing I see Street lights change and the car-horns beep An old woman sleeps next to a trash heap Crowd of pigeons gathered up right at her feet I see comedy, drama and tragedy Still alive, not a casualty [CHORUS] I walked a long cold road and wrote this heat Just to warm my soul if soul could speak Watching life turned whole from broken lengths I want the love and the money and the time to think [VERSE 2] When you broke everyday is just a dollar to chase When you rich everyday is just dollars to make Don’t window shop but I walk in the bank Thinking I ought to get all that I can I know my music ain’t all that’s planned But this is all that I have As far as blood sweat and tears I put it all in the pad And put faith in my strength when I started to rap Say the strongest survive but its the ones who adapt So any place on the map I’ve laid my hat From LA to the dawn to cape town and back I found my dogs and made my pacts I made these songs and found my path I hold the wheel while my soul will steer As we rode through the globe and flow through ears See the road’s made of gold it’s grown right here See the pedals got the force the close comes near But I’m only beginning to get it clear Spent years, only writing about the man in the mirror Been hungry in the concrete jungle full of fear Now I’m feeling like the hunter on the day he met the bear Cause the fear of the body bones and heart A little bit of fear kept the soldier sharp I sold everything I own to buy this poem Hoping if I could just own it my money tree would grow Maybe it will or maybe it won’t Got a voice with the meaning but I’m still broke But its all about the change, about the song I wrote From the day I started hunting with the wolves and crows
5.	Mark 02:09	lyrics	buy track
Skin the color of bark Clothes smelling like trees Dig in my earth, find my roots and weeds My truth bleeds right back in the arm No scar, but I left my mark My friend got clean and O.D.’ed, life is just that dark But life is just that bright That when the sunset shines I seen the graff he writes I’m back tonight, with a sack to light In honor of the past I write I’m wide open, with no glass of wine Stuck in a barrel, I’ll get better with time While you measure how the pleasure declines I’m stackin’ cheddar while the bread just rise With my eyes and my ears glued here on my grind, cutty Creepin’ on a come up No sleepin’ till the sun’s up Tellin’ secrets to the drum thumps Pledge allegiance to the blood pump Until I leak my last liter, here’s my one love And all these angels got their guns up But no fear when my teeth and my tongue touch I am here, and I speak for the young bloods Who’ve seen the flood, and they drug all the anchors up And set sail through the world, in the name of trust Hard work, and the crux that it made in us I’m ’bout to bust, all my veins full of gold dust That 1985 California gold rush, in the spine plus the flesh that it holds up I’m out for mines and my wolves got it sewn up One crow, one eagle on my shoulders And my eyes hold the light that approaches
6.	Wolf 01:12		buy track
7.	Luck 05:07	lyrics	buy track
[CHORUS] If all it took was luck I would already be struck Yeah caught by the good life waiting to wake up But it’s more like disaster born as a bastard Turned into king or the dreams that you’re after [VERSE 1 These days have been crazed I’ve been raised In the city of angels that’ve been slayed Men played the children games with real guns Cops n’ robbers and cowboys and Indians I survive to twenty-five in the sun Under the moon in the twilight with my hearts drum Beating the same beat my ancestors came from (And there is only one x2) Pow-wow circles and peace pipes Greet a storyteller spelling out the key to life My shell’s a gun now still I carry them And my spirit not the dirt that they’re buried in I’ve grown very thin living off of bread and water Books, paintings, film and sex (and the marijuana) And the music that’s been therapeutic for the trauma My songs bring me clarity they also make me wander Now I’m standing in the London fog I think I Lost Angeles and I smell the smog My mind drifts to Amsterdam I see the dawn I’m in my beach house in Cape Town then flash it’s gone [CHORUS] If all it took was luck I would already be struck Yeah caught by the good life waiting to wake up But it’s more like disaster born as a bastard Turned into king or the dreams that you’re after [VERSE 2] Rats n’ mice with wings circle above Pigeon or dove, who even really gives a fuck? The names that you call for it all Hear me grunt about the things I saw (I can still see em’) A careful widening rings a being Bare feet on the hardwood floor About to kiss the ceiling I’m sick of kneeling I need a prayer I can walk through Into the house built from everything I thought I ruined Ifsthis the house where the couch at? I’m trying to smoke a sack and write raps Cut an opening above where the mics at But sunlight slips right past I wrote the illest shit you’ve never heard Then left it in the street as an offering Underneath the wing of a dead bird Gemini be the shepherd and the herd Both sides, deep down in the same spine Should’ve fallen by the waste side But I crawled out bass side I spit wine through the grape vine Here’s the hope that my faith dies I see the rope that it hangs by
8.	Any More 01:49		buy track
9.	Story 04:15	lyrics	buy track
[VERSE 1] Sunrise the grind starts to make bank Sun sets to drive home on an empty tank The in between just gets lost in puffing dank Jean-Michel Basquiat but I don’t touch the paint 22 years here in the shell now (Time is right, yeah I’m breaking out the cell now) And I’ll admit that I crack the whip But I ain’t even made half the shit (Sense did it!) I just sit back, get high, laugh and trip The baddest bitch, keeps staring me right in my eyes And I’m telling her I don’t have the time She thinks that I’m lying, cause she never met one of my kind Never been so real on my life, all I do is the mic Singing like the siren on an island The brook calling me to write it, the face callin’ me inside it [CHORUS] My whole story is a song now All the worry that would bog me down Turned to courage like a godly crown Now I journey for the godly sound It’s beyond all the law you found (nigga) [BRIDGE] The hole in my soul, void in my mind Drums gon’ feel all my cries The hole in my soul, void in my mind Drums gon’ feel all my cries [VERSE 2] There’s no holes left for me to hide in A lion in sight with a hunger for Zion I wonder at times what’s behind all the science Hear the words chase for a taste of silence (Shh) Pace through the wasteland, blaze 28 grams Wait for the fate to awaken up a caged man I was born by the beach in Southern California Grew up in LA under the same sun Icarus was born from An angel built the city up on one lung, burned wings, no teeth Half a heart, one beat, but two feet Sea-walking like Jesus over Galilee Seen, the blood loves the bone You will cry when they leave the soul Today we are the trees to grow Tomorrow we are weeds to pull Write the story, I can see it all With my name painted on the wall An urban crow follows on my call And on a wire, but I just don’t fall
10.	Whales 03:02	lyrics	buy track
Bitten by the touch, living on the cusp Dig in to the rhythm, till my vision pulls you up Summer turned me inside, tunnel was a distant light Made a hundred just to kiss the mic, the only trouble is the distant dice Bet double on my hit tonight, from the jungles to the city lights I’ma bubble up the middle night, with a riddle of my little life Turned to visions of my endless light, for this prison there’s a key in sight There’s a secret in my eyes I ain’t never sharing Peep it if you might, right through the lyrics Back through my eyes, slide through my spirit Tie me to the heights These souls unfold like gold in the cavern Everything I’ve sown is growing in a pattern Seven be the home, a poem of my laughter The candles that I light Crow up in my mind, con to my heartbeat The wolf along my side, walking to my heartbeats Finally my time, tell me this is our feast Turn back upon my grind I don’t wanna cry, with all I gotta carry I just wanna write, ’til all of us are buried I don’t wanna cry, with all I gotta carry I just wanna write, ’til all of us are buried
11.	Van Gogh's Crows 02:27	lyrics	buy track
Do you cry out in your weakness, or carry it like Jesus? Or just wonder where the peace is? The heart’s beautiful; the brain’s where the beast lives All these names on a train, and I’m trying to put my piece in I paid for days, till my pain is raised This spirit in my lyrics’ phrase And when it plays let the fire blaze And remember to the higher plane I came Dark dark days, come and go fill my heart Light fades, come and go fill that Ark I pain, just to go and spill this truth Now when truth was reality and lost in the challenge You see, what was out the window And you was pretending, and I had an info And we was just listening, all with my kin-folk Hear me here-ly, here where the cliff’s low Van Gogh’s crows, over wheat-fields of gold Forget everything you know Read a secret, hid it right under-nose Go ahead and seek everything you want Everything you want, you already got This is just a secret I’m mixing in the pot Everything you want, you already got This be the secret mixed in the pot Everything you want, want You already got, got Everything you want, want You already got, got Everything you want, want You already got, got Everything you want, want You already got, got The more digging this grave The more I’m digging my life The more I’m digging this pain The more I’m digging the mic The more I’m looking for life The more I’m looking for light The more I’m mixing between The more I carve with this mic Yeah B.L.S… and S.N.S B.L.S… and S.N.S We be blessed, yes, yes
12.	Abacus 02:38	lyrics	buy track
[Verse 1: Bless] Somewhere the sun sets out on my silhouette Drum-sets pound to the sound in my filament Deep to the ground every town I be killing it Pound over ounce I was built for the real in this Bring ’em back to life with a knife made of healer spit Fly through my mind it is time that you feeling this I ain’t gotta lie this is life on the realest shit Wake up everyday and get blazed ’till the ceiling lifts Now I’m on my grind and the factory is dealing shit ‘Bout to stash cash in the bag on some illegal shit But I ain’t got a dime I can hide from the evilness Every rack I stack take me back to where the demons live [Verse 2: Bless] So smoke a sack with the geniuses Open up and ask where the past be leading us Try and do the math, and you add what the meaning is All I do is laugh while the past be leaving us Sharp on my math as an abacus Try and slide the wrong way wind up being smashed to dust We goin’ raise like we Lazarus Blaze through the game and watch the fame chase after us Four finger ring reads “KING” can you imagine us Sitting at the castle where the cats can’t hassle us Vision the pattern that are living, us Break ’em down to tatters build ’em back and watch ’em give it up You know we goin’ get it, punk Live 22 years just to find the kid in us All them other years I was clear, I was growing up Killing off my fears as I steered through the going rough Veered through the years as my peers started blowing up Knew I’d be there and gone passed from the soul in us Treasure turns to trash from the gold in us But all will turn to ash if I pass what I’m holding from [Chorus] This is for the one, raising out the drum This is for it all, everything is God This is for my life, shining through the night This is for the dice, on everything I write
13.	Strangers 03:46	lyrics	buy track
[INTRO] Anything he does, anything he loves A brother from another mother sent from the above [VERSE 1] I tell it to you honest, this is everything I wanted Been living in a house that was haunted Haunted by the fact that I wanna start performing Locked in a box here for years just recording Throwing all the knives from the kitchen at my boredom Gotta cut the cake and I ain’t even got a portion Took a lot of time but I chose not to force it Maybe that was wisdom or maybe that was horse shit All I know for sure is the world has it’s forces Some of them are hideous, some of them are gorgeous Something like the smell of roses mixed with rigor mortis But look into the bright side, past all the horrors Did it really take, for me to see the day Someone called it fate, I guess to say the same How did I meet Sense, was something in the way Found the beats I needed, but I never could’ve made [CHORUS] This world is truly strange, it only gets stranger The scenery is beautiful, I also sense danger Gotta make a living, just a writer chasing paper Try’na tell my story till I’m facing with my maker This world is truly strange, it only gets stranger The scenery is beautiful, I also sense danger Gotta make a living, just a writer chasing paper Try’na tell my story till I’m facing with my maker [VERSE 2] Back when I was younger, thought it was so simple All I really needed was a couple instrumentals No pen, or no pencils, just something I could vent to I would spit for hours about the challenges I been through Mountains that I climbed and the spirit that is in you And then the wind changed and the way he would hitch you Days grew colder, got a lot older Tried to get high but I still feel sober Friends and my girl kept calling me a loner But what they didn’t see was that I really was alone here Try’na make a plan, only got a couple grand Listing what I’m missing and I’m checking what I have Stepping out the door like one day I’ll be back Hopping on a plane like I wonder about that Been around the world, already cut 6 continents Same pair of Vans slip-ons walked all of ‘em Found SENSE floating on a boat in Holla-land Ever since then been building and acknowledging
14.	World Of Wils Pt. 2 02:22	lyrics	buy track
CHORUS] You want to play with the cap made of crow feather? Better know better, better know better [VERSE] Shahmen Can I solve all my problems Living out in peace in a world turned rotten Smelling like trees with a mouth full of cotton Brewing green tea while I think about my options Shahmen Can I solve all my problems Living out in peace in a world turned rotten Pen for a sword pe-pen for a sword got a pen for a sword Got a book for a shotgun Shahmen Walked it long before I talked it Break into a freestyle cypher and lock it Whether I got paper it’ll end up in my pocket Don’t matter crow feather hunt and gather Shahmen With my tribes still scattered Across the whole world unified in a pattern Seen from the heights way past Jacob’s ladder Don’t matter crow feather hunt and gather [CHORUS] You want to play with the cap made of crow feather? Better know better, better know better
15.	Bonus: 1981985 Pt. 2 02:14		buy track
16.	Bonus: Hollow 03:05		buy track
17.	Bonus: Get Mine 02:21		buy track
18.	Bonus: D.R.E.A.M. 03:31		buy track
19.	Bonus: The Road 02:34		buy track
20.	Bonus: CrowFeathers 01:29		buy track
21.	Bonus: The Crow Pt. 1 01:51		buy track
22.	Bonus: Blood 01:41		buy track
23.	Bonus: Pine 01:34		buy track
24.	Bonus: Redrum 01:06		buy track
25.	Bonus: Shut Eye 01:34		buy track
26.	Bonus: Lost Angeles 02:02		buy track
27.	Bonus: The Crow Pt. 2 02:37		buy track

about

Music producer SENSE (Daniel Tiuri Wils, 1985) was born as the son of a Shaman and initiated into mystical traditions like Sufism from an early age. Through psychedelic-induced experiences as a child, he connected with his own personal deities and psychological archetypes – like the wolf – which would later become the foundation for the imagery and symbolism found in Shahmen recordings. His grandmother’s esoteric collection of books introduced him to the teachings of George Gurdjieff, Irina Tweedie, and Inayat Khan, who speak to us in the instrumental interludes and give context to the lyrics of emcee BLESS.

Rapper BLESS (Brandon Lee Stratton, 1985) traveled from Los Angeles to Amsterdam to record an album with SENSE. The two Strangers became close friends and recorded countless freestyles and demos together, during sporadic but intense recording sessions in SENSE’s houseboat recording studio. Here BLESS wrote and recorded the words for Shahmen’s “Enter The Circle” and “All In The Circle” using imagery from Native American folktales and cult films like The Crow (with actor Brandon Lee). His gangster rap-like delivery, deep voice, and incredible flow complement SENSE’s mystical sounds and banging drum tracks perfectly.

Shahmen’s classic album “All In The Circle ” incorporates samples from psychedelic rock records, and sounds from Turkish cassettes, with haunting cello melodies, dark bass lines, and banging drum tracks. Woven into the rhythms are recordings of SENSE’s father’s Shamanic drumming, fragments of authentic zikr rituals performed by his Tarikat, and quotes from spirituals teachers and scholars like Joseph Campbell, George Gurdjieff, and Carl Gustav Jung. The killer production on Shahmen’s “All In The Circle” was perfected by producer SENSE for seven years.

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released May 26, 2015

Vocals: B. L.. Stratton, R. Coenen
Composer: Daniel Tiuri Wils
Producer: Daniel Tiuri Wils
Executive Producer: Daniel Tiuri Wils
Mixing: Daniel Tiuri Wils
Mastering: Shawn Hatfield
Artwork: Bioniq, Tim Bontan
Creative Director: Daniel Tiuri Wils
Recorded at SENSE's woonboot

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