Happy Who (The Riddle Reads)

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This song was written in 1988 during a protracted phase of teaching (Natural Science), studying (philosophy, religion, science), and creative exploration (drawing, photography, video).

I recorded it recently (2024) using a handheld digital recorder (with audio dubbing and mixing done on Audacity). The track is acoustic, low-fi, and unmastered. I added the bridge verse in 2023.

The repeated line 'happy who the riddle reads', and, the final verse were adapted from the 'Hermetic Emerald Tablet' (aka 'Tabula Smaragdina', Latin, from the Arabic: لَوْح الزُّمُرُّذ, Lawḥ al-zumurrudh), a mystical-alchemical text attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus (though is possibly drawn from a later 8th or 9th-Century Arabic text).

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Happy Who (The Riddle Reads)

I could be you
You could be me
We could be waiting
We could be free
It could be over
Sooner than you know

Happy who the riddle reads
Happy who the riddle reads

There was a time
Before there was Time
There was a reason
Without any rhyme
There was a future
Louder than you know

Happy who the riddle reads
Happy who the riddle reads

So many words
Just so many words
I can't hear you
So many signs
Just so many signs
I can't see you
From here
Or there

Heavens above
Heavens below
Stars above
Stars below
All that is over
Under shall show

Happy who the riddle reads
I said happy who the riddle reads

Happy who the riddle reads

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released January 6, 2024
Music and lyrics by ZtB / M.A.R.

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Zot the Bot Seattle, Washington

ZtB is unreal. M.A.R. is real...and a multi-media artist, poet, and designer- inventor living in the Pac NW (USA) and sometimes on other imaginary planes of existence.

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