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There's A Space

by Roles

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1.
Empty Room 03:27
Boxes of memories, everywhere I went Whole UPS fleet, every time I moved I never opened them, I just kept adding to them I was waiting, waiting for the time Old love letters and memorabilia, pictures of people I’d never see again My Bar mitzvah certificate said I was a man I was waiting, waiting for the time I could be happy, I could be, I could be happy In an empty room In an empty room Empty room I was going to throw them away I kept going back to the garbage during the night My Guru said that it's good to burn bodies so I decided to have a big fire Started out laughing, but by the second day it was really getting to me Burn the bodies, so the beings don’t come back My history, good to burn I could be happy, I could be, I could be happy In an empty room In an empty room Empty room
2.
If you've got a teaching, I want it. I don't care if you've got a body Cause I've got a lot of strange friends I remember what Alan Watts said we were drunk in the monastery He said you’re too attached to emptiness Why don’t you try, try being human? Why don’t you try, taking the curriculum? Emanuel had a good teaching he said we expand and we move closer but it can’t be done in one blinding flash He said Why don’t you try, try being human? Why don’t you try, taking the curriculum? You’re so busy being holy but don’t push it away, don’t push it away the highs and lows and everything Why don’t you try, try being human? Why don’t you try, taking the curriculum?
3.
Rosie 03:41
Oh Rosie, I was in over my head Cold grey day, in a tank with you and Joe Oh Rosie, what am I doing with dolphins? I’m the one who makes dogs bark, I make babies cry But she stayed there, her skin felt so good her fins around me and I was saying Oh Rosie, oh Rosie, oh Rosie, Oh Rosie, I grabbed on to your upper fin Kept slipping, but you were waiting, for me to hold on tight Oh Rosie, think it’s time, that I took a breath Second that, the thought crossed my mind, you took me back up After 40 minutes, I was shaking with fatigue and cold, but I could not let go Too much fun with Rosie, oh Rosie, As I felt the real fatigue, Rosie shook me off and went and contacted Joe They both pushed me on to the platform and wouldn't let me back in anymore They wouldn't let me back in anymore They were training me in intuition Two of the best teachers that I've ever had were Joe and Rosie, oh Rosie, oh Rosie, oh Rosie, oh Rosie
4.
Rinpoche 04:13
I met him in Brooklyn; he came to give a lecture. Then he was speaking in Vermont, I was smoking dope out in the van Someone came and said, Trungpa wants to see you so I went in, I never trust tantrics He looked at me and he said, we have to accept responsibility What responsibility, Rinpoche? God has all the responsibility I don’t have any, not my will but thy will and he said, you're copping out He looked at me and he said, we have to accept responsibility I met him in Brooklyn; he looks like a drunken jerk Chogyam Trungpa, 1974 A Tibetan rascal, with a bottle of sake and he said, you're copping out, you're copping out He looked at me and he said, we have to accept responsibility jubilate deo, jubilate deo, hallelujah, hallelujah
5.
Banaras 04:48
Banaras city of dying, bodies in the Ganges As life gets real, it’s very hard for the rational mind A hundred and twenty-five begging lepers I had about twenty coins I started down the line Who am I going to give to? Banaras city of dying they all had begging bowls My rational mind, it started in who's going to get the coins? That fellow there, is missing his arms That woman’s face is eaten away Do you suppose, it's worth the rupee? Can you hear how ghastly that is? I kept going down the line looking people in the eye Hand out a rupee now and then then the coins were over Banaras city of dying I gave up on my mind I was just with those beings in Banaras, very auspicious place Banaras very auspicious place
6.
The Witness 04:28
Found myself open, to having a relationship Found myself sitting in the bath, crying with jealous rage I could not believe it, I was like a post-pubescent the pain excruciating, but part of me was laughing Behind it all, there’s a space, just like the sky Behind it all, there’s a space There is non- attachment, there’s dissociation one can masquerade and seem like the other Behind it all, there’s a space, just like the sky Behind it all, there’s a space Not looking, but it sees, just like the sky Behind it all, there’s a space Found myself open, to my personality Found myself in its full blast, crying with jealous rage I was no longer holding, holding on to the space but I found it was still there, just in a different way It wasn’t there, to push away the pain, no it was there along with it, Not looking, but it sees, just like the sky Behind it all, there’s a space Just like the sky, just like the sky, just like the sky, sky One part looking at the other part, the witness becomes the other part, one part looking at the other part, then you witness the witness
7.
She had a hat with oranges and cherries She had a black patent leather bag A printed dress and responsible oxfords She was no acid head I was talking some far-out talk She was sitting down the front I'd say she was about seventy smiling like she understood She had a hat with oranges and cherries She had a black patent leather bag A printed dress and responsible oxfords She was no acid head I kept on looking at her I was saying all of these outrageous things In the end, she came up and said that it all made perfect sense I asked how she knew I ask her what do you do? How do you get into that state of consciousness? And she leaned forward conspiratorially and said I crochet, she said I crochet, I crochet She had a hat with oranges and cherries She had a black patent leather bag A printed dress and responsible oxfords She was no acid head
8.
Me and Dad 03:35
Visiting my father while I was working on my consciousness I'd go in the Buddha and I'd last about 20 seconds Then I decided I was gonna take on the hot fire, I was gonna to love my father, here I am dad, I love you Look at me what a holy person I am, loving my dad suffering quietly to myself, but I’ve been working on that Yeah it was ugly I’ve been working on that That was 10 years ago, now it’s really far-out how I really dig my family and I love being with my dad We go to the ball game, we hangout, we play Yahtzee, What else have I got to do? How does the spirit manifest? Can you only find it in om mani padme hum? Can’t it be while playing Yahtzee? Being with someone? It’s just another way Yeah I’ve been working on that What does it mean to be born human, to have a family? What does it mean to have a father? I’ve been working on that
9.
I was wearing beads and wearing robes, smiling benevolently I was caught up, caught up in wanting to be, who they wanted they me to be I played the role of the holy man I was busy trying to be high Trying to escape the parts of myself that didn’t fit into that I If I meditate enough, if I huff and puff in pranayama, will it be enough? Do I sadhana hard enough? I keep coming down, when will it be enough? Lived in projections, kept hidden depressions caught in the specialness Parts of myself shoved under the rug from me and from everyone else But after a while, you have to deal you feel like you're standing on sand You have to live, live with your horror even the holy man If I meditate enough, if I huff and puff in pranayama, will it be enough? Do I sadhana hard enough? I keep coming down, when will it be enough? Whole parts of me, gone in the unity I found through LSD, then techniques of the yogi But every now and then, I had to be alone and when I was alone, I kept coming down If I meditate enough
10.
My Humanity 03:51
Human beings lost in emotion I kept going up for clear perception Everything looked perfect through my sixth chakra It’s a place so clear but it has no warmth My my my humanity I wanted love not emotionality My my my humanity Getting high is not getting me free I became larger than life so they would think they could never be like me People loved me but they didn’t trust me They could not feel my humanness My my my humanity getting high is not getting me free My my my humanity to stay down and still be free to stay down and still be free With my my my humanity to stay down and still be free with my my my humanity Everything looked perfect through my sixth chakra It’s a place so clear but it has no warmth

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Debut Album by Roles.

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released February 2, 2022

Written & Produced by Louise Love
Mixed & Mastered by Mikey Young
Album Art by Luis Gutierrez
Lyrics draw on public recordings of Ram Dass

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