02.22.07

Lyrics to Safe As Milk by Javier Hernandez-Miyares (Fee Fi Fo Fum)

Posted in Uncategorized, Javier Hernandez-Miyares, Fee Fi Fo Fum at 8:21 pm by mbumba

gonna sing, gonna sing my song
my song of celebration
cause when the pied piper comes again
he’s going take us to the same location
where all the little children, found the tree of knowledge
in the garden
garden of temptation

you see there was this tree in the forest
and it fell down one day
there was no one there to see it
but they heard it just the same
and they all knew
they would never be innocent again

and they were safe
safe as milk
safe as their mother’s milk
they were safe
safe as milk
overworked and underpaid
but safe
safe as milk

suddenly there came a flood
and it washed away the cities
every man, woman and child
they were caught sleeping
and every man and his opinion
was washed into the sea
drowned in the sea

then we crawled out of the water
and we climbed up in the trees
and when we looked at each other
we saw that we were monkeys
and every trace we left behind
became a part of history
history

and we were safe
safe as milk
safe as our mothers milk
we were safe
safe as milk
overworked and underpaid
but safe
safe as milk

so we rebuilt our cities
and our institutions
and since nothing was heaven sent
the branches of the government
were the only things that grew
on our tree of history
history

gonna sing gonna sing my song
my song of celebration
cause when the pied piper comes again
i’m going to take him to the same location
where all the little children
found the tree of knowledge
in the garden
garden of temptation

we were as safe as milk…

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Poem written as a clue to the meaning of “safe as milk”
We were seeking God
In the beginning
but it was too perfect
to perfect to be seen
so we remade god in our own image
as a mortal to be seen
deified
(It)
it that feels birth pangs
and dies in childbirth
and leaves us orphans
longing for it
imagining it
It
always coming and leaving
like our breath
as in our sexual embrace

as we see
It

Listen to “Safe As Milk” at this link

Tags: Fee Fi Fo Fum, Javier Hernandez-Miyares, Donald Johnson

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