Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Migrant Chorale , by - Daniel Kahn. Song from the album The Broken Tongue, in the genre Музыка мираRelease date: 13.01.2011
Record label: Oriente Musik OHG
Song language: English
Migrant Chorale |
| Alien evening, dark after four |
| Break out the bulbs from the Arabic store |
| Shoulder the market by the canal |
| Break out in tune to the migrant chorale |
| Twisting of language, breaking of vows |
| Translating names to what tongues will allow |
| Hiding in cellars, listening through floors |
| Settling debts with inherited wars |
| Carrying records, town after town |
| Keys to the temples they burned to the ground |
| Mounting the hill for the final display |
| Dragging the bones of the bodies away |
| Occidental, oriental, over seven seas |
| Capricorn & Cancer dance a sorry gules lied |
| Capricorn & Cancer dance a sorry gules lied |
| Crossing Morocco, dry desert plain |
| Over the border & make it to Spain |
| Wear for your coffin a mandarin van |
| Abandoned in London on down by the strand |
| Once there were bellies of galleons to fill |
| Back from the Ivory Coast for a kill |
| Now there are offices crowded with tongues |
| Each of them waits for their number to come |
| ??? |
| are strafing the valley with light |
| Under the quiet New Mexico night |
| Laying it’s hand on invisible lines |
| Death is a friend to a field full of mines |
| Occidental, oriental, over seven seas |
| Capricorn & Cancer dance a sorry gules lied |
| Capricorn & Cancer dance a sorry gules lied |
| Gaggle of ragged, frost-bitten geese |
| Murder of crows at the end of a lease |
| Swallows or sparrows, Gypsies or Jews |
| Everyone knows when the rent will be due |
| Vultures despising the swans for their pride |
| Wearing their wings like a train on a bride |
| Under the bridge with their heads in their breasts |
| Waiting for winter to summon them west |
| Reading of horrors in papers of home |
| Hearing reports over satellite phones |
| Shone in the river, the town is a-fire |
| Sending the pigeons over the wire |
| Occidental, oriental, over seven seas |
| Capricorn & Cancer dance a sorry gules lied |
| Capricorn & Cancer dance a sorry gules lied |