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North Carolina Six - Transcription

I think I can identify with the story of the search outside of me for...for an answer search for a rainbow and I first started to search I think my connection findin somethin to fix me was alcohol because it separated me from who I was cause I didn't like me and once I got that separation and the feelin of bein separated from myself I thought I had found a rainbow but what I found was an illusion because self returned and I used alcohol people places things I used them as emotional band aids so anyway, to cover up the real me you know and what I found out was you know I'm O.K. you know I'm I'm O.K., and I thought I was I thought I was a a spirited being trying a a human trying to be a spirited but I found out I'm a spirited trying to be human you know and a rainbow is a my connecion with God and other people and that that really is no really outside answer to cover up me that I runnin from ou know ... it's like Dorothy on the Wizard of Oz she went through all that hell...lookin for an answer and at the end of the show she clicked her heels and said hey I got the answer you know so it was a beautiful revelation for me to find out that I don't have to run from me and I don't have to use these bandaids although I will get back into that cat from time to time but you know the real comfort and solace comes from my friends my family, my trust in God and uh not somethin art
Transcribed by Aaron Champion.

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