[bass sounds] MAN: One, two, check, check, hey.

NARRATOR 1: On this episode of the Local Groove Presents Eric Ian Farmer playing heart music.

MAN: How is it level-wise?

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[ERIC IAN FARMER, "BROTHER TO BROTHER"] (SINGING) [scats] [vocal harmonizing] Oh, I don't believe it's a secret.

[scats] that I did not survive.

And brother, I am aware [scats] that you were kept alive.

[scats] I know why you were here, [scats] that mark on your head.

[scats] And I understand [scats] why you're not dead, Cain.

[scats] Cain.

[scats] Cain.

[scats] Cain.

[scats] That curse that's been laid on you, recognize that it hurts me, too.

Cain, this is Abel.

I've been trying to reach you.

Cain, this is Abel.

I've been trying.

[scats] That curse that's been laid on you, recognize that it hurts me, too.

Cain, this is Abel.

I've been trying to reach you.

Cain, this is Abel.

I've been trying.

[scats] Oh, did you know that I forgive you?

[scats] [ERIC IAN FARMER, "GROWIN' UP GRIOT"] (SINGING) [scats] [vocal harmonizing] Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh.

I was born back before there was enough light to go around.

We made do in the dark without smartphones.

You can't imagine how we and down.

Where were you back when the miracles were being bestowed?

(SINGING) Where were you?

(SINGING) You must have been in the other room when they brewed the first taste of joy, and I've been reminded that this water is the same water that blessed the sweet lips of Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, even the first humans.

[scats] Yeah.

Oh.

Yeah.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Where were you back when the miracles were being bestowed?

(SINGING) Where were you?

(SINGING) You must I've been in the other room when they brewed the first taste of laughter, and I've been reminded that this water is the same water that bless the sweet lips of Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, even the first humans.

[scats] Yeah.

Oh.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Where were you back when the miracles were being bestowed?

(SINGING) Where were you?

(SINGING) You must I've been in the other room when they brewed the first taste of justice.

I'm the keeper of words buried deep in my bosom, some I'm scared to tell-- the rise and fall, heaven and hell.

Do you wish to hear?

I'm the griot, I'm the griot, I'm the griot.

I'm the griot.

[ERIC IAN FARMER, "ATTEMPTED GENOCIDE"] (SINGING) Anishinaabeg struggle to protect their rights to wild rice from the state of Minnesota and the strength of California.

Trying to preserve their lives and their traditions, would you classify this as attempted genocide?

Onondaga Nation prepares for litigation versus the state of New York over sovereignty and corruption.

They could sue the state for land illegally gotten over 200 years ago.

Would you classify this as attempted genocide?

How can I be free when we did not feed, when we were not feed, our children in Zimbabwe?

How can you take any more after the American war in Vietnam, Rwanda, Wounded Knee?

How can I be free when we did not feed, when we do not feed our, children in Yemen?

How can you take any more?

How can you take any more after so much war?

How can I be free when we do not feed, when we do not feed, our children, our children, our children, our children?

How can you take any more?

How can you take any more after so much war, so much war, so much war?

[ERIC IAN FARMER, "LOVE THING PART 2"] (SINGING) What will I tell you when you arrive?

So many days I've thought of you.

Some of them, I've cried.

What will I tell you when you arrive?

So many days I've thought of you.

Some of them, I've cried.

What will your smile be like?

Probably like your mother's.

(SINGING) What will I?

(SINGING) What will your eyes be like?

Probably like no other's.

(SINGING) What will I?

(SINGING) What will I tell you when you arrive?

So many days I've thought of you.

Some of them, I've cry.

As I imagine your smile.

I imagine your tears.

I imagine mine-- how they died with my fear.

I imagine your smile.

I imagine your tears.

I imagine mine-- how they died with my fear.

You'll be more than me, I know.

(SINGING) You'll be more.

(SINGING) Into a family tree, we will grow.

(SINGING) We will grow.

(SINGING) With autumn leaves of joy falling down, giving back to the world around, all around.

Yeah, yeah.

I know-- (SINGING) I know-- (SINGING) --what I'll-- (SINGING) --what I'll-- (SINGING) --tell you.

(SINGING) --tell you.

(SINGING) I know-- (SINGING) I know-- (SINGING) --what I'll-- (SINGING) --what I'll-- (SINGING) --tell you.

(SINGING) --tell you.

(SINGING) --tell you.

(SINGING) I know what I'll tell you when you arrive.

So many days I've thought of you.

Some of them, I've cried.

I'll just say, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

[inhales] Oh, thank you.

[ERIC IAN FARMER, "OPEN YOUR HEART"] (SINGING) Open your heart.

Please speak to me.

I cannot read your mind, read your mind, except on Wednesdays.

But, love, this weekend even so, so hard to find.

Oh, yeah.

[vocal harmonizing] When will you soften your heart?

And when we you spread your arms and let me fall?

Let me fall right in, yeah.

When will you soften your heart?

And when will you spread your arms and let me fall, fall right in?

Yeah.

Let me fall right in.

Resisting unspoken advances.

I'm hoping a dance in the kitchen just like we used to, ooh, love, might remind you, might remind you, yeah, that I need no proof to stay in love with you.

To stay in love with-- When will you soften your heart?

And when we leave spread your arms and let me fall.

Let me fall right in, yeah.

When will you soften your heart?

And when we spread your arms and let me fall, fall right in?

Yeah.

Let me fall right in.

Will you let me?

Will you let me?

Resisting unspoken advances.

I'm hoping a dance in the kitchen just like we used to, ooh, love, might remind you, might remind you, yeah, that I need no proof to stay in love with you.

To stay in love with you.

To stay in love with you.

To stay in love with-- to stay in love.

When will you soften your heart?

And when we spread your arms and let me fall?

Let me fall right in, year.

When will you soften your heart?

And when will you spread your arms and let me fall, let me fall, fall right in?

Yeah.

Let me for right in Will you let me fall?

Can I pull right in?

Will you let me fall?

Can I fall right in?

Will you let me fall?

Can I fall right in?

Will you let me fall?

Can i fall right in?

Will you let me fall?

Can I fall right in?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, woo.

Fall right in, yeah.