Prahlad
Prahlad
Lyrics
Foreigner Blues If I had the money Since I left my family | New Orleans ‘till Katrina tore it down. Well all these years, still ain’t free. Love them cats and dogs more than me. Up on the roof tops trying to get down. Same thing happenin’ all over town. Took my money took my land. Feel like slavery times all over again. Send a letter to white house, tell ol' pharoah he better let my people go. O New Orleans was a pretty town. 'till Katrina blow it down. President sit back sippin’ gin, say it was just a little wind. Say don’t worry it’ll be alright. Let me lay down and rest for the night.
| Pink Elephant I’m just a stranger here and a stranger everywhere. (2x) It used to bother me, but now I really don’t care. (2x) I’m just the pink elephant that people pretend not to see (2x) Your mama and daddy talk to you but never say a word to me. (2x) And all of your friends think I’m really cool. Just like an exotic pet that you brought home from the zoo. And all my black friends Say I act too white. I’m just not down with the brothers and I don’t talk right. The Cherokee nation treats me like a black sheep they screwed my grandma and now they want to disown me. Just eat a mango or a juicy peach. or watch a hip keep slipping ohh down at Venice beach. My baby rocks me with a steady roll. She gimme that good strawberry jelly roll. |
| Troubled of lynchings she has never witnessed and never heard of. She feels them. She sees them unfold in front of her at the most inconvenient times. At the copier in the law firm where she is always a step away from becoming a partner. In a board meeting, as she is about to speak. Mangled body hanging from an oak tree. She can hear the white crowd cheering like the fans in a football coliseum. Unless Jerry, the gay guy, eats in, she sits alone in the lunch room, reading the daily news. | Streetlights 'til daddy lost his job, lost everything, now we’re sleeping in the car. And the hum of the streetlights at night sings me to sleep. And I pray to the good lord above my soul to keep. We never get to play. We never get to wash. It’s dirty and smelly inside our little car. Chorus. Lots of dirty kids around the garbage fire. Sometimes they go with strangers For money to survive. Chorus. There’s U-boy and Oozo Jenny and Kate. Little Sheronda’s thin as a rail. Chorus. | Too Long since I smiled and ran across the fields, like I did as a child. Am I still on the path? (3x) Or am I running wild, running wild ? Too many years since joy came. And showered my soul just like a spring rain. If I’d only known of the quicksand up ahead, If I’d only known would’ve gone another way. When did the sun disappear and the sky turn grey? When did I stop my dancing, child, and turn all work, no play? If I moved away maybe I could change my name, If I moved away it would still be the same. |