Monday, February 25, 2013

Rice paddy dream

Performed in the stage show Take me To Paradise at OzAsia Festival 2008.

On my first visit to Bali in 2002, Ketut the driver from my guesthouse took me driving out into the countryside. We stopped at a few tourist places he thought I would like, but mostly we drove through the rice paddy landscape . It seemed we were driving further and further, deeper and deeper into green. I didnt want him to ever stop driving.
 

Rice Paddy Green

Drive me forever through rice paddy green
I want to drive with you forever in your rice paddy dream
together
just driving
never take me home
forever in your rice paddies
I just want to roam

Drive me forever to your rice paddy temple
I don't want to go back to my life
It's that simple
I want to stay forever
I never want to leave
It's here I begin my rice paddy dream

Luminous, irridescent
bright emerald green
wild green, growing up through the wet earth, green
growing as I watch green
sprouting seeding, seeding, sprouting
duck eating, bug eating green

I want to drive forever in your windy roads of green
round green corners, up green mountains, into green ravines
through green, all over green, cover me, feed me with, love me with GREEN!

Drive me forever to through rice paddy green
I want to drive with you forever in your rice paddy dream
together
just driving
never take me home
forever in your rice paddies
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just want to
roooooooaaaaaaaam



(c) Jan Cornall  Ubud 2005




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