Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song An Undoing World, artist - The Klezmatics. Album song Possessed, in the genre Музыка мираDate of issue: 30.06.1997
Record label: Piranha
Song language: English
An Undoing World |
| By the time we’re done with dancing |
| Elsewhere darling you’ll be glancing |
| And the night’s a river-torrent tearing us apart |
| Merely melody entwined us |
| Easily the ties that bind us |
| Break in fibrillations of the heart |
| Don’t cry out or cling in terror |
| Darling that’s a fatal error |
| Clinging to a somebody you thought you knew was yours |
| Dispossession by attrition is a permanent condition |
| That the wretched modern world endures |
| You drift away, you’re carried by a stream |
| Refugee a wanderer you roam; |
| You lose your way, so it will come to seem: |
| No Place in Particular is home |
| You glance away, your house has disappeared |
| The sweater you’ve been knitting has unpurled |
| You live adrift, and everything you feared |
| Comes to you in this undoing world |
| Copper-plated, nailed together, buffeted by ocean weather |
| Stands the Queen of Exiles and our mother she may be |
| Hollow-breasted broken-hearted watching for her dear departed |
| For her children cast upon the sea |
| At her back the great idyllic land of justice |
| For exilic peoples ponders making justice private property |
| Darling never dream another woman might |
| Have been your mother |
| Someday you may be a refugee |
| A refugee, who’s running from the wars |
| Hiding from the fire-bombs they’ve hurled; |
| Eternally a stranger out-of-doors |
| Desperate in this undoing world |
| Mother for your derelicted |
| Children from your womb evicted |
| Grant us shelter harbor solace safety |
| Let us in! |
| Let us tell you where we traveled |
| How our hopes our lives unraveled |
| How unwelcome everywhere we’ve been |