Song Of The Jungle Stream
by Carla Bley
From the album: Tropic Appetites
Track 7 of 8 on Tropic Appetites (1974).
Duration: 10:15
Lyrics for Song Of The Jungle Stream
It's in this jungle Of lovingly obscure possibilities In light as yellow As all else is green That spring water Becomes warm Spread by the wind And softly faulty Invites eyes To follow it from beginning to end But eyes Directed by anything Even wind End up watching Fixed and dried up From within Concentratedly no longer Of the jungle's green Is reminded Of the sea Six strange things like flags Strangely ununtouchable To understanding But mysteriously On his nose His nose Many young birds Skyline in rest of dying There is breath of the night Held to the animals To cover In communication And the counting of the house Turning the black sky's stars blue And life rains down on us As we arrange The grafting of hill to tree To make of another Next one's Straddled horizons An excess of clarity And the jungle border Draws and drags The dying man Towards its customs