Without a queen the locust swarm<br />
Turned the ground to black,<br />
Descending like a shadowy tower opon a fish's back.<br />
And scattered the sticks who crawled<br />
Like snakes in the sand,<br />
As the red clay took the form of a lizard,<br />
Who rushed like a moth to the flame of my open hand<br />
<br />
(My little world...in my sad little world...)<br />
<br />
Then a speckled bird humbly inspired<br />
Ran across the road when it could have flown,<br />
And it made me smile.<br />
And at the water's edge, Babylon;<br />
As we lay and slept,<br />
The river wept for you, Zion!<br />
The stones cry out,<br />
Bells shake the sky!<br />
All of creation groans...<br />
<br />
SHHHH!<br />
<br />
Listen to it!<br />
<br />
Messes of men in farmer poverty;<br />
Not much for monks, but we pretend to be;<br />
Share a silent meal and a pot of chamomile.<br />
Gypsies like us should be stamped in solidarity.<br />
And I held you in my fond but distant memory,<br />
While waiting for the Mother Hen to gather me,<br />
Who regretfully wrote:<br />
<br />
"You have a decent ear for notes,<br />
But you can't yet appreciate harmony."<br />
<br />
O porcupine, low in the tree; your eyes to mine:<br />
<br />
'You'd be well inclined not to mess with me.'<br />
<br />
And at the garden's edge beneath a speechless sky,<br />
As his friends slept,<br />
Jesus wept - and it's no wonder why.<br />
You wanna be set free?<br />
You wanna set me free?!<br />
Well that can only come from<br />
A union with the One Who Never Dies.<br />
<br />
[In my little world, in my sad little world, I patched a plaster wall<br />
In my little world, I was waiting, just dying<br />
To take offense at something.<br />
In my little world, in my little world, in my sad little world<br />
This is all there is in my little world.<br />
<br />
In darkness a light shines<br />
On me.<br />
<br />
In darkness a light shines<br />
On you.<br />
<br />
Oh what'd I say?!<br />
<br />
I never gathered figs from a thorny branch,<br />
(Oh what'd I say?!)<br />
I never picked a grape off a bramble bush!<br />
(Oh what'd I say?!)<br />
For the past five; almost six years now,<br />
(Our Lord is come!)<br />
You haven't once looked at me with kindness in your eyes;<br />
(Oh what'd I say?!)<br />
And you say Judas is a brother of mine?<br />
(Oh what'd I say?!)<br />
Oh, but sister in our darkness a light shines!<br />
(Oh what'd I say?!)<br />
And all I ever want to say for the rest of my life,<br />
(Oh What'd I say!)<br />
Is how the light is GOD!<br />
(Our Lord is come!)<br />
And through I've been mistaken on this or that point,<br />
That light is God.