a sad song for a change

[floatingleaf]

Since everyone around seems to be very keen on celebrating poetry month, here are some more lyrics I feel compelled to share. It's one of my favorite songs by DeVotchKa, called Undone (from the album A Mad & Faithfull Telling, 2008):

Father, you know where I have been
and you know what I have done
they say that you see everything
so you know I never hurt no one
what I have stolen won't be missed
by those who had so much, so long
we'll soon be laughing about this
they'll never notice it is gone
I could bend the universe
if I can only get there first
there are some foolish fresh-laid plans
my fate is firmly in your hands

Take if you must take me
but I cannot go peacefully
I left someone waiting for me
I left things so terribly

They say man is just your seed
spilled out on the thirsty earth
a simple servant of your needs
from the moment of our birth
tell me am I not your seed?
tell me am I not your son?
tell me have you just forgotten
all those years of devotion

Take if you must take me
but I cannot go peacefully
I left someone waiting for me
I left things so terribly undone

Father, you know where I have been
and you know what I have done
they say that you see everything
so you know I never hurt no one
what I have stolen won't be missed
by those who had so much, so long
we'll soon be laughing about this
they'll never notice we are gone

Take if you must take me
but I can not go peacefully
I left someone waiting for me
I left things terribly undone