For Kalaja Mari - School of Seven Bells

Walk with me for a while to my house on the hill

Forget where your body lies and I’ll forget mine as well

You have as much hope as you have hopelessness

But can you identify just what keeps you down like this

Do you feel the pain

Or do you feel the memory

Whether you’re sound asleep, whether I’m wide awake

Brother, you live and breathe, whether I’ve gone away

Do you pass through the world lost in the rendering

Of life as it felt before estranged to the passing day

Do you feel the rain

Or do you feel the memory

There’s no need to get depressed

There’s no need for anxiousness

'Cause the words won’t come easy

There’s more to your work than this

Do you feel the pain

Or do you feel the memory