Many of its songs involve well over a dozen musicians, some of which - Rachelle Ferrell, Keb' Mo', Victor Wooten, Rascal Flatts, Acoustic Soul accomplice Mark Batson - are bound to make some listeners freak. Though songs like "Good Mourning" deal with the immediate aftermath ("Good morning silence, good morning to myself/Good morning to the pain in the center of my chest"), they also seem to revel in it as just another part of being alive ("Good morning acceptance, good morning inner strength/I'm loving every moment, even the inner strain"). Arie's relationship was apparently very serious, as demonstrated in "These Eyes," where she demands respect and wonders what her and his children would've been like. This isn't a bitter breakup album instead, it's largely a breakup album that instead involves forgiveness, closure, and - of course - the kind of soul searching that Arie's fans have come to expect. It would've either been made just before or immediately after a major breakup, one that informs much of Testimony: Vol. India.Arie's third album would've sounded much different if it had been recorded and released shortly after 2002's Voyage to India.
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