- published: 06 Jul 2016
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The Toda people are a small pastoral community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau of Southern India. Before the 18th century, the Toda coexisted locally with other communities, including the Kota, and Kuruba, in a loose caste-like community organisation in which the Toda were the top ranking. The Toda population has hovered in the range 700 to 900 during the last century. Although an insignificant fraction of the large population of India, the Toda have attracted (since the late 18th century), "a most disproportionate amount of attention because of their ethnological aberrancy" and "their unlikeness to their neighbours in appearance, manners, and customs." The study of their culture by anthropologists and linguists would prove important in the creation of the fields of social anthropology and ethnomusicology.
I can feel it
on my insides
it's working
it's moving
and I feed it
carefully
and I'm really
not happy
with the things that are movin inside of me
got a heart
got a heart
got a heart
got a big heart
i smell it
on my house
on my sheets
it's working
and i feed it
often
not ripped(?)
not bleed(?)
and i never really know whats happening
got a heart
got a heart
got a heart
got a big heart
i remember when i was a kid
i had a bike that i got secondhand
.....(?)
i cut my head/leg(?) so bad i thought i died
and i never believed in you till then
and will never forget you....(?)
I believe in, i believe in, i believe in, i believe in you
got a heart
got a heart
got a heart
got a heart
got a heart
got a heart
got a heart