The call of the drum is calling me
I will answer it's call with wild ecstatic dancing
Wild ecstatic dancing to it's tribal rhythmic beats
    that pierce the nexus of my whole
    while penetrating my heart with the beat of it's soul
    Ba-boom Ba-boom Ba-boom Ba-boom Ba-boom Ba-boom Ba-boom

The drum beats on as my heart beats on,
    the two become one
Ba-Boom Ba-Boom-Boom
           Ba-Boom Ba-Boom-Boom
                     Ba-Boom Ba-Boom-Boom
The two become the infinite heartbeat of one

The Mother Drum's skin is so soft and sensual
    under their hand's heavy beat
Ba-Boom Ba-Boom-Boom
           Ba-Boom Ba-Boom-Boom
                     Ba-Boom Ba-Boom-Boom
Yet her call to us is so completely tribal and wild
    transforming us back into
    Mother Nature's dancing child

So listen for her call
That will call you with her primal voice
Hear her indigenous beats profusely pour out
    of the ethers of her rhythm and sound
For her call embodies pure primal instinct
    upon her tribal ground
    Primal instinct that is in her every breath's beat
         The beat that beats into the core of our tribal heart
         The beat that lives in the core of our tribal spirit
So go on, answer her primal call
With your tribal dance

Let the drumming take your mind into another dimension
With your body remaining in the present tension
While your energy slowly bubbles up from the inside
Bursting straight through you to the outside
Taking you on a slow, smooth rhythmic ride
While it drops beats of many colors onto our soul
With it's rhythmic rainbow spreading across your whole

So come, follow the drum's vibrational sound
Follow it's vibrational sound
That will pull you onto infinity's ground
Come and dance with Mother Drum
Let her sensations reverberate throughout your body
    Dance to her drumming in time
    Let your heartbeat and hers chime
Dance her into your rhythmic presence with her essence
Whirl yourself in her energy dance
Spin yourself into her drumming trance

So come, follow the beat of the drum
Follow the beat of the drum
That's spinning in motion
Hear the beat of the drum
That's drumming in rhythm
Answer the call of the drum
With your hands snapping and clapping
     your feet romping and stomping
                        and freely tapping

Come on, dance the tribal dance...

Dance free, dance free
Dance to your soul's desire
    Spin in ecstasy
Dance on the ethers of sound
    Glide across the ground
Dance with your body alive and on fire
    Feel the rhythm and beat
Dance inbetween the earth and the sky
    Upon your beautiful bare dancing feet
Dance on rhythms ground
    Feeling the drum's beat pulsate through you
    more and more

Dance free, dance free
Let your mind go into a twirl inside the cosmic whirl
Where rhythmic dance will put you in a drumming trance
Dance free, dance free
Let the drum's beat swallow you whole,
    into it's beating soul
Taking you deep into it's rhythmic whole

Dance free, dance free
Dance free letting time pass with never a care
Dance free, dance free
Dance free feeling it's rhythmic air blow
    through your dancing hair
Dance free, dance free
Dance free without a care
    knowing that moments are to spare
Dance free, dance free
Dance free, let it's rhythmic beat
    become your dancing lair

Dance free, dance free
Let the drum's beat surround your whole being
Swim in it's rhythms that are freeing
Dance free, dance free
From early morning's day all the way into night's end
Dance free, dance free
Let the drum become your eternal friend


by savvy-01/29/2001...

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