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Certain branches of Hinduism feel that we are currently in the Forth Great Age (or Yuga), the Kali Yuga, the age of forgetting. This age tends to end badly, but a new dawn awaits. We'll see.

I really like the solo at the end...and I made my guitar make a sound I've never heard out of a guitar before. It kind of scared me.

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KALI YUGA

Submerged, playing the opening strains of our own dirge,
sinking into an abyss of faith and words, submerged.

But don’t close the coffin yet, even though it’s a fool’s bet
that we might wake long enough to see that we’re sleeping.

Patterns, this reoccurring act of failing,
this ending up at bad beginnings, patterns.

Some see the start of it while cursing the end of it,
yet all have feet of stone climbing the ladder of time.

Time’s hands are choking you, fate’s plans a joke on you,
while you live to let live, tripping on gifts that you cannot give.

Forget, losing the reason why we built this
empire of science and illusions and defects, forget.

We all are chained to it, our souls are owned by it,
losing the questions as well as the answers.

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from Hell's Laughter and Heaven's Ache, released January 1, 2001

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John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

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