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She Travels
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A woman sits in a New York deli, thinking about people and the surfer she left behind.
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South Indian and western crossover music, fusion, using both traditional and electronic instruments; Indian ragas and rhythms and western harmonic structures.
RagaPhonia juxtaposes South Indian classical music with western jazz, rock and electronic music to forge a new sound.
Song Info
Genre
Alternative • Indie
Charts
#14,702 today Peak #202
#2,835 in subgenre Peak #40
Author
Prasad, Gunapu, Edgar
Rights
Prasad/Gunapu/Edgar
Uploaded
June 26, 2006
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MP3 6.3 MB • 128 kbps • 6:54
Story behind the song
Robert wrote the song for guitar, later bringing it to Shuba and Purna, who worked with Robert to extend it into its present form.
Lyrics
She
Sits alone and watches as
The strangers pass. She wonders if
There is someone in this city
Who might know her name.


She would like to have a bite of food
She orders a glass of beer instead
Asks a stranger for a ballpoint pen
Draws a scene of water-lines of ink so blue.

I think then she’d sign her name and smear the ink with beer.

And she watches the night fall
And she whispers to herself
Words that she thought she’d forgotten
In another language she carefully says “Danke Shoen”.

Strange eyes turn as she leaves
She walks into the breeze and she smiles.
And she watches the night fall
And she whispers to herself
Words that she thought she’d forgotten
In another language she carefully says “Guten Abend”.

My eyes search for a wave
Outside on the horizon she breaks.

She checks into her small hotel room
Throws her shoes upon the bed and walks
Down the hallway to the indoor pool
Dives into the water--swims with all her might.

Light
Falls into the ocean and
Loses all history as it
Reflects on all the drifting creatures
Borne in a new world.
She waits till her suit is dry, returning to her room.
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