Where the Cactus Roams by Nate Lost. In collaboration w/ @Maryvuela (Mex City) Produced by Calamity (Louisiana)
This is the first video for my freshman album Love ‘n’ Travel. Although I’m a little disappointed with my own role in this production, my collaborator in crime, Mexico City-based dancer @maryvuela is amazing! Plus the video was shot in her hometown of Zacatecas, Mexico, where the scenery is stunning. If you dig it, follow her on Steemit and show some love so she can get more involved in the community.
Many thanks to Calamity for producing this beat and letting me spit over it. Calamity is a producer and rapper from Gretna, LA who has two amazing mixtapes called Archeology I & II where he mixes sounds from all over the world. Here’s some links to his music. I’m trying to get him on Steemit!
Lyrics
Where the cactus grows
Hook:
money, cars, fancy clothes
politics, wars, breaking news.
colleges, offices, skyscrapers
suburbs, ghettos, prison yards.
Verse 1:
I followed her across the map to where the cactus grows.
Beside the road I passed a little cross tucked softly in a wall of granite stone.
And thought that if this bus must crash before I reach her home,
at least I know I left this world in search of love–and not some whack shit yo.
Hook:
money, cars, fancy clothes
politics, wars, breaking news.
colleges, offices, skyscrapers
suburbs, ghettos, prison yards.
I’ll be in the desert where the cactus grows
beside the yellow grass,
and if I make it to the lips of god, yo, I aint coming back—
no bodhisattva, my words are what I offer,
in a bottle of a song I wrote on a bus to Zacatecas
from Guadalajara—
Yeah, this is a short track. Almost like an interlude. Notes written on a bus through the high desert in love where the cactus roams.
I am also in the process of publishing my first full-length non-fiction novel, The Renaissance Man Project.
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Muchisimas gracias for reading and supporting independent art.
MAD Love.
Read Intro, Part 1
Read Intro, Part 2
Read Intro, Part 3
Read Intro, Part 4
Read Ch 1, Part 1
Read Ch 1, Part 2
Read Ch 1, Part 3
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