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tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
153. Juluka
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:28 AM
Feb 2012
Digging For Some Words

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Wanderers and nomads have gone to see their chieftains
Will this be the end of the rain and the birds?
Who can send an emissary to speak to the seasons?
For the ravens and the crows already soak up the skies...

I`m digging for some words beneath the stones in Zimbabwe
I`m searching for a drum song in the jungles of Zaire
I`m groping for the blood-moon in the mountains of Malawi
Looking for the Lion of Ethiopia...

The setting dusk is darkened by the bark of the baboon
The frogs and the owls no longer call to the moon
The warlords have gathered, blue smoke hiss from teeth of chrome
And the baobab lies trembling in the boiling blood-loam

The fireplace is broken and the grinding stone too
Its million pieces flung across the plains of Africa
Each dusty fragment a seed from which grows
The memory of a debt that only you and I will know

Seven seasoned soldiers have been summoned from Saigon
A craven walkie talkie puts their bloodshot armor on
Some drink beer milk, some drink kinky-kola
Sheep dogs live in Outeniqua
Gun dogs in Angola

Flames lick the corners of each hungry horseman`s smile
They have locusts in their scabbards and deserts in their eyes
Passing through the air they leave a sea of fetid rumors
As they ride across the skyline on a secret trail of lies

I found some words beneath a stone in Zimbabwe
I heard a distant drum song in the jungles of Zaire
The blood-moon spoke of war in the mountains of Malawi
But I never found the Lion of Ethiopia.

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Most of my "storage devices" are vinyl... Scuba Feb 2012 #1
GET OFF MY LAWN! dogknob Feb 2012 #34
I had to look. I have two of her albums ... Scuba Feb 2012 #52
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Gentle Giant - Words From the Wise Systematic Chaos Feb 2012 #2
Never heard Gentle Giant before, but heard OF them- WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2012 #32
The Twilight Sad EastTennesseeDem Feb 2012 #3
9353, Death Piggy, and The Prevaricators FSogol Feb 2012 #4
Death Piggy!!!! WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2012 #16
Yup, a good friend lived in Richmond and we'd alternate weekends hanging out in the FSogol Feb 2012 #54
Sorry, have that one! justiceischeap Feb 2012 #5
The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other dogknob Feb 2012 #6
And of course... dogknob Feb 2012 #9
now THAT makes me jealous OriginalGeek Feb 2012 #12
About 80% of my collection. Initech Feb 2012 #7
I have some of those pipi_k Feb 2012 #19
I have several of those WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2012 #20
I'm a huge P-Funk fan. Initech Feb 2012 #24
I have something by all of those except OriginalGeek Feb 2012 #40
You get your money's worth at a P-Funk show. Initech Feb 2012 #140
I have a few of those LeftOfSelf-Centered Feb 2012 #131
I do love the metal. And Mike Patton kicks ass too. Initech Feb 2012 #141
Patton is amazing. LeftOfSelf-Centered Feb 2012 #147
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Sorry, Colin is in mine too OriginalGeek Feb 2012 #10
The Sheila Divine and Glueleg deucemagnet Feb 2012 #11
Buddy Fite. cliffordu Feb 2012 #13
Jill Sobule - Pink Pearl justiceischeap Feb 2012 #14
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sorry I've got Man or Astro Man, and The Melvins limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #25
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Adventures in Failure is my fav on that album WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2012 #139
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I used to have that on vinyl. progressoid Feb 2012 #87
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"Anybody's" is pushing it a bit but on the obscurer side dmallind Feb 2012 #23
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+1 ceile Feb 2012 #99
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I got a bunch of old blues from the 20's and 30's. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #55
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Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha: In A Gadda Da Vida progressoid Feb 2012 #79
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Do Make Say Think and a ton of other obscure bands. bif Feb 2012 #152
Juluka tk2kewl Feb 2012 #153
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