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Somebody ain't Nobody, Somebody who's me
If i could think with the mind of a wise man
If i could stop using this heart which throbs
with love,laughter,passion and pain
Maybe then...Maybe i would stop thinking
of shooting stars,the crescent moon and silver sky
Maybe then I would not speak of dandelions,
daises,buttercups and butterflies.
Maybe then all my gardens and rainbows would disappear.
If i could think with the mind of a wise man
Maybe then i would stop writing about cascading waterfalls
and white swans which pirouette in crystal streams
Maybe then there'll be no more mandarine sunsets
and maybe then each sunrise would hide
behind a shadowed silhouette of black wild hills.
Maybe then I would act more like a woman
not like a child with innocent dreams
balloons and candyfloss kisses
All i manage to give you are birds in their nest
Melodies of panpipes and the sound of the sea
I wish i knew better,I wish i did better
I wish i knew how to use bombastic words
a wider vocabulary,such as politicians use
but that would never be me.
I wish that one day i could be that somebody I'm not
that somebody who could influence this world of isanity
who could stop the bloodshed of brothers and coldness of war
who could feed each mouth in Etiopia ,Sudan and much more.
But i am a nobody,as simple as a peasent ploughing green fields
as usless as dust which get swept by each waft of the wind
the same dust you thread upon as you walk with those feet.
I wish i was somebody,i wish i could give you better
but this is all i have and this is all that's me.
I'm sorry !
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