Elinor Blue
Elinor Blake, Mehdi Zannad, Tony Allen
Hear the world
The world is blue
Color shot through and through
Hear the birds ring around
They make the color sound
Singing out a mystery without home or history
while they fly down the sky confessing it on high
Over every country, over every highway, over every Compton and every sea
Daddy died when I was a child
How could I know a mercy mild?
But Mama tried
She told me when I cried
to sail it like a victory
Ready-about, hard-a-lee
Tear drops would hollow me out a tunnel leading to another country,
down another highway,
through another Compton, into a sea of
smiling faces ,rolling hips, embraces,
everybody dancing, confessing blues
Another country, another highway,
another Compton, another sea
of smiling faces
nobody waiting
everybody dancing
into the blue