"His Seahorse is a statement for this generation"
--Robert Christgau [Paraphrased from a quote that used to be on Wikipedia]
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I'm high, I'm happy & I'm free
I got my whole heart laid out right in front of me
& I finally can see
The way its always been
The need for peace starts from within
So I leave my possessions to the wind
Yeah I'm done with ever wanting anything
I can die satisfied, no desires do I hide
Not today, not today, nor for the next 1,000 lives
I want to be a little seahorse
I want to be a little seahorse
I want to be a little seahorse
Well I'm scared of ever being born again
If it's in this form again
Well I want to know how, why, where & when
& then I want to see you be the bright night sky
I want to see you come back as the light
--"Seahorse" by Devendra Banhart
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If Seahorse is a statement for my generation, then that statement can only be: God, we miss The Doors. He is getting high marks for reconstituted hollow 60s spiritualism. I don't have to go into my rhetoric about the on-coming closed-feedback-loop of Rock & Roll. There's really just something about Robert Christgau ratifying what I already thought to be true that strikes me as especially depressing.
