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Poem For The Native

Poem For The Native lyrics by Johnette Napolitano. Kissing James Dean on a Ferris wheel No I don't feel anything Corn yellow, pale blue Kissing the face of a...

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Poem For The Native

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Kissing James Dean on a Ferris wheel

No I don't feel anything

Corn yellow, pale blue

Kissing the face of a ghost with a name

As the war rages on down below

Between the ghosts with no faces,

And the ghosts with no names

I know they're there, I know

The ghosts with no faces, the ghosts with no names

And the voices started to sing:

Silent stone faces

Watch and wait

As the desert blooms and dies and blooms and dies

Bones dry and crumble under neon

And water washes away down through chrome drains

Yes they Sing.

Waiting all this time to be heard

Souls hanging in the cold,

Waiting for us

Waiting for me

Who was all this time waiting for you, all this time.

Like jade,

Like long lost buried gold

Old as the sun and the moon

Waiting to bring us all back together again

All this time waiting for us, waiting for me

Who was all this time waiting for you

All this time, all this time.

And like drops of rain we will be together again.

As a white woman photographed a brown woman

Passed out drunk on a dusty road, wrapped in a stained serape

An ancient queen with cat's eyes stood silent watch over the

Great flowing vein of the Nile

Angry men threw bloody knives into the holy green river

As stony tears cracked and turned to sand

Onyx eyes stared out over a black veil

Fearless and face to face with the past

Tattooed crosses along a strong jaw line

And I heard her say 'I am.

And I always have been'.

But I will hear them sing:

Silent stone faces

Watch and wait

As the desert blooms and dies and blooms and dies

Bones dry and crumble under neon

And water washes away down through chrome drains.

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