Monday, April 12, 2004

"The Mancala Song" by Mungo

This Guitar has never been tuned
but this song has always been for you

Take four stones, pass them down
One by one you win

A new set of clothes, a room stopped in time
A little game of stones, and a coffee mug of wine

You're the one that sings the songs
You're the one that
brings down the dawn

Listen to the sounds we make
And the little stones we break
We'll pass our stones for to fill
Empty phones with a long distance bill

It's food and it's fodder,
we don't need it all
With swans on the water,
and water on your wall

It was just one moment,
mutual atonement
A new thing bent
into a candid habit

If a blind man can touch his chest and steal
a movement of love from afar
Then it's easy to sing, and it's easy to feel
when all the words rhyme with what you are

It only takes a parking lot bet
It only takes a swimming pool
It only takes a few basic frets
It takes me an you