1a. Gangaputra (You Deserve no Less)

I looked around this world
And then I looked to you  
You took me in 
I did what I was supposed to do  
I had the answers
I had nothing to hide
Life won’t pass me by 
If my timing’s right 
So what the hell went wrong 
When your saffron clouds gave rain        
And they followed me around
I was never washed away
I was cleansed into your ground                 
Now you’ve got my best
It’s you and only you  
And you deserve no less 
Your love is drudgery
All I have are crude concerns  
For I have scorned as ignoble
The businessmen who keep and earn
In the power of your fog  
I could have been more strong 
I looked within and I looked away from you            
I was cast into the ground  
I worked so hard this time and now   
I’ve nothing left to say to you, this drama’s overplayed, 
   my feelings well underway, a welcome overstayed  
I labored from sunrise to sunset 
At the shafts of a hand plow 
For a spirit over matter
A germ eaten hovel, primordial swamp     
We were supposed to find our way above, but it’s just another saddened day
We were supposed to be pure inside our love, but it’s just another give away 
Weren’t were supposed to fight our way above? It’s just another draining day
We were supposed to be in love with love, but I’m just another caste away
Now it’s you and its only you  
You had my best, and now you deserve no less 
I claimed supernatural visions   
Plundered like a vulture fortune teller     
An overexalted posturing artist
Inspired by a cult of death 
In your river of otherly love    
Your motherly love 
I was just a king of dreams
Just a slave of physical needs
A Karna cursed for what he seeks
An Ekalavya cut for what he could be
A Brahmin crowned on a vanishing beach
Another Dalit born and drowned out of reach     
I’m just a miasma into your mystic sea