Vicarious Pleasures

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Track 1 Puja

Chords and lyrics

Puja                                                                                       Sitar!

C4             C C7 C                                  Bb

I sent a prayer floating out upon the water

C4          C      C7 C                    Bb            C

Not the kind of game I'd usually play

Cmaj/min                C                 Bb                   C

Just something I felt that I ought to do

  Bb            F                                    C

If only to help you on your way

It was a beautiful and serene location

With the river flowing slowly towards the sun

And though I skipped on the usual libation

I felt that something meaningful was done

Bb                                                             C

Some might say the end is the beginning

Bb                                                C

Maybe it helps if you believe

Bb                                              C

If you hold the loss as a winning

   F                                                               G

Is it so wrong to comfort yet deceive

There was a family there whose puja was much harder

Mourning for the loss of their young son

And as his ashes drifted down on the Narmada

I hoped their healing process had begun

To be present for the aarti here feels just right

Sending blessings to the river as it flows

As the Brahmins twirl their lamps to pierce the dark night

What's our fate or fortune, no one knows

No one knows...

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