[Intro - tanpura drone, tabla pulse, electronic kick fades in, female voice heavily filtered]
Govinda Govinda Govinda
Hare Hare Hare
Govinda Govinda Govinda
He is coming
[Verse 1 - female vocal through vocoder, sensual, rhythmic]
Blue skin in the moonlight by the river Yamuna
Flute between his lips and the world stops breathing
Sixteen thousand lovers and he dances with each one
Every gopi thinks she holds him but he holds the universe
His feet don’t touch the ground when he moves
His smile breaks the cycle of birth and death
Butter thief god killer lover of all souls
Krishna plays and we are all his instruments
[Pre-chorus - pitch-shifted female voices stacking, call and response]
Where is he where is he
In the sound of the flute
Where is he where is he
In the butter on your fingers
Where is he where is he
Everywhere everywhere everywhere
[Chorus - massive trance drop, tabla meets four on the floor, euphoric female choir through vocoder]
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Bass is shaking Vrindavan tonight
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Every beat is a prayer every drop is light
Dance dance dance for the blue god
Dance dance dance till your ego dies
Radha Radha Radha calls him
But tonight he belongs to the bass line
[Verse 2 - deeper pitch-shifted female, darker groove]
Arjuna froze on the battlefield of Kurukshetra
Dropped his bow said I cannot kill my brothers
Krishna smiled and showed him everything at once
Ten thousand suns exploding from his mouth
Every god inside one body every death inside one life
And said fight because nothing truly dies
Now the bass drops like the Bhagavad Gita
Every verse a weapon every rhythm a truth
You think you are the dancer but you are the dance
You think you are alive but you are the dream
Of a blue boy playing flute by a river
That flows through every club on every night
[Build - female voices fragmenting, glitching, accelerating]
Go-go-go-govinda
Ra-ra-ra-radha
Kri-kri-kri-krishna
Ma-ma-ma-maya
Hari bol hari bol hari bol hari bol
Hari bol hari bol hari bol hari bol
HARI BOL
[Chorus - double drop, massive]
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Bass is shaking Vrindavan tonight
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Every beat is a prayer every drop is light
Dance dance dance for the blue god
Dance dance dance till your ego dies
Radha Radha Radha calls him
But tonight he belongs to the bass line
[Breakdown - everything stripped, sitar alone, whispered through heavy reverb]
He lifted a mountain on one finger
Govardhan above his head like an umbrella
While the rain god Indra raged and raged
Krishna just smiled and the village was safe
That is what love does
It holds the impossible weight
With one finger
And smiles
[Verse 3 - building back, female voices interweaving, one high one low]
HIGH: Radha waits by the river every night
LOW: Meera drank the poison and it turned to nectar
HIGH: Every woman who ever loved the impossible
LOW: Every soul that reached for what it cannot hold
HIGH: That is Krishna’s game his lila his play
LOW: He gives you everything
