Velada

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Lyric

(Mazatec shaman's chant, Maria Sabina)

I am a saint woman, says 
I'm a drum 
a drum woman, says 
I'm a woman born 
fallen into the other world 
That is your Book 
That is your Book 
Book of clarity, says 
I'm a woman of the breeze 

I am a woman who looks in 
into the in-sides of things 
woman who shouts 
who resounds 
a woman torn out of the ground, says 
I'm a woman wise in medicine, says 
I'm a woman of heaven 

woman who thunders 
woman who sounds, says 
Woman of the shooting stars 
of a sacred, enchanted place 

Because I can swim in the immense 
And I come going from place to place from the origin 

Because I come searching beneath the water from the opposite shore 
I am the woman who can be torn