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Positive Chaos

from Positive Chaos by Rafa's One Man Band

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Positive chaos
the polar opposite of Du Hast, Du Hast me not
Take you to outter space like an astronaut,
Tell you the things that you haven't got to hear from anybody else,
No one that's said it quite like myself,
Cause on my bookshelf I got a wealth of information,
Like Brother Mouzone I read the Nation,
When I'm on the beach or on vacation
I read the economist when I'm on the shitter,
Cause I'm a heavy hitter, mama told me never be a quitter,
This is a first step of many more , so when positive chaos politely knocks at your door,
I better not catch you snorin' son

Positive Chaos

I'm quoting Dylan "like the times they are a changin' "
I ain't a Cajun in the bayou but I see the floodwaters rising,
And I can't help but think there's something we can do about it,
There ain't no bout adout it, but it's gonna take a shift, so let us start with
a definition :chaos theory or the butterfly effect

or the sensitive dependence on initial conditions which can result in large
differences to a later state. We always hear that if a buttefly flaps it's wings in
China it cause a hurricane in Iowa. True. True. We never hear though about how
teaching one heroin addict how to use and distribute clean needles, can have the
effect of almost an entire community of addicts winding up in rehabilitation programs.
I don't know why, maybe it's not as flashy, but it's happening too, and we never
stress that see. And here's the thing we are constantly,
and I do mean constantly, the source point of all sorts of "negative" chaos too.
We all cut people off, we all act abrasive to strangers needlessly,
We all judge people sometimes as we pass em on the streets,
Every one has, at one point or another, screwed someone else over.
Often times, it's cause you thought you were about to get screwed over yourself,
Or you were protecting someone else
The pre-emptive screw...ha
So next time, that dude will screw over the next dude, and so on and so forth. Chaos.
But here's the thing that's inevitable, those things will happen, like it or not,
We're all gonna be dicks sometimes... but we can also actively choose
to NOT be dicks the rest of the time. The chaotic process is the same, but in the opposite
direction. If sometimes, you choose to let people go ahead of you in a traffic jam,
or if you choose to let go of your initial judgement, and have a conversation, with
that weird ass person standing in the corner, chances are that just like that butterfly wing
you won't notice the difference at first, but the chaos effect will take hold, and I
guara ntee you'll like yourself a little better at the end of the day for what it's worth.
positive chaos

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from Positive Chaos, track released December 12, 2011
All Parts performed by Rafael Nunes
Mixed and Mastered by Rafael

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Rafa's One Man Band Berkeley

Travelling between Americana and Brazuka, Rafa's One Man Band is comprised of one man, and many layers. From driving funk rhythms, to string heavy pop anthems Rafa manages to walk a fine line between ego and soul, digital and analogue, musicality and production.
The resulting sound is at times so reminiscent of a full band, that Rafa himself forgets that he has no bandmates.
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