Boom Ditty - Rev Run

(Arthur Blake) There's a great big mistery And it sure is worrying me It's a ditty wah ditty Mister ditty wah ditty I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means I went out and walked around Somebody yelled, "Now who's in town?" Mister ditty wah ditty Mister ditty wah ditty I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means Some little girl 'bout four-feet-four Said, "Come on, papa, and gimme some mo'" Your ditty wah ditty Your ditty wah ditty I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means I went to church, put my hat on the seat A lady sat on it and said, "Daddy you sho' is sweet" Mister ditty wah ditty Mister ditty wah ditty I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means I said, "Sister, I'll soon be gone Just give me that thing that you're sitting on" My ditty wah ditty Mister ditty wah ditty I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means Then I got put outta the church 'Cause I talked about ditty wah ditty too much Mister ditty wah ditty Mister ditty wah ditty I wished somebody would tell me what ditty wah ditty means

Don't tell me you love me I would only cry I would only cry Big long rivers From my eyes From my eyes Don't play Death Cab for Cutie I fall back in time I fall back in time You took our love story Put it on the line Put it on the line Maybe I was under the impression I could always always ask you questions I can't help falling in love with you I can't help falling back in love Don't tell me you hurt me I would only cry I would only cry Big long rivers From my eyes From my eyes Don't play Death Cab for Cutie I fall back in time I fall back in time You took our love story Put it on the line Put it on the line Maybe I was under the impression I could always always ask you questions I can't help falling in love with you I can't help falling back in love

Sadness persists Because Anyone can send a Facebook justification A letter, a sympathetic reparation A bunch of words, a careful and thoughtful nuance To touch only from a distance For these words didn't have to be faxed from two miles away To someone who transatlanticised for you back in the day It's only fair to say Sadness persists Sadness persists Because Your liberation comes at a cost And that cost is the brewing and spewing of my mercy I was meant to believe Spasmodically That I was the one with the insanity While you baked yourself silly Morning to blackness Filled your bags with all your personal property Disdained me nonchalantly And all I spurred was "Stay" It's only fair to say Sadness persists In a second, you are not mine In a second, you are not mine Sadness persists Because Help, is not something that can be made to realise Because it's not ice cream Or a spoon of digene That can be digested automatically Help is what you give carefully Help is what you accept consciously Accepting the ghosts of your past Accepting that darkness needs its masks To be removed And had it been you And me alone It would have been another way It's only fair to say Sadness persists You left nothing behind and I was all alone You left nothing behind and I was all alone Sadness persists Because Man is not an animal Capable of receiving or of loving unconditionally Those in love will find themselves lucky And those who are alone will feel solitary Because this, is a cruel anomaly The existence of an ordered coherent Society, If it was for individuality I would have known a better way It's only fair to say Sadness persists

It's the freedom in your voice It's the child in your smiles Must be the floating of your thoughts Or the way you lift your brows Calling out to you like this, before I've never done this to anybody Tell me all that you wanted to be And secrets you've told nobody I'll be listening patiently Cause You make me feel like a wildflower You make me feel like a wildflower You make me believe I can be as wild as I can Let the nights turn into fire Let's run out into the wild Please make love to me under the clouds I love it when you kiss me under water Calling out to you like this, before I've never done this to anybody Tell me all that you wanted to be And secrets you've told nobody I'll be listening patiently Cause You make me feel like a wildflower You make me feel like a wildflower You make me believe I can be as wild as I can A flower that is free to sway like plants underwater A flower that bends alluringly towards the sun I am drowning in the depths of our conversations I am working in the nakedness of your existence We are free ecstatic young lovers I am falling in love

Today seems like it's not my day So I smile and I bow down to it Sometimes the sun, it burns my skin So I apply boroline to it The winter says it'll never be warm So I put on my best jacket My mother's love's like it'll never get old So I plunge into it Remember you were always wild Don't let them tame you through it Life gives lemons make lemonade So I find the biggest bucket Loneliness plays hide and seek So I bell her with a locket Children are playing on the street I join them in their cricket Friends say time togethers' time well spent So I move closer to them Money's becoming a burden now So I lighten my pockets All the greens - they are chopping it down So we go grow a forest Smoke from the cars is killing my cat So I built her a garden I built her a beautiful garden I built her a beautiful garden

I come home today And she's sitting on the sofa With an undone strap of her bra And we're sharing our beautiful days Intertwined conversation Beautiful admiration For the twins and the goddesses that we bring out to be Time passes, giggling mingling We graze each other over tea She says to me She, she says to me There, there will be a time Ditty I came home last month When he left me Dumped me SMSed me And she was there Collecting the pieces Of my sadness She was there To help me undress And peel every layer of torture And throw it chronologically into her bottomless ears She was there when I cried, Confused, I realised, I was denied, love She, she says to me There, there will be a time Ditty I came home again She says she's been day dreaming Drifting off to the world where long distance Is long distance no more She says she sees herself Holding hands with the man she loves She spends the day scrubbing the bygone dirt and filth Off the walls in my apartment She marvels at the cat She calls it a brat And presents herself to me Brown, deep, sublime Her presence is like the warm winter sun That penetrates the depths of my chest And enables me To see this side of myself To be alone and suffice She, she says to me There, there will be a time Ditty We go to buy groceries I'm wandering Still sundering from the thuds Of my past, falling at every block Of cheese, meat, cleaners veggies Every song Every One Four Five That takes me back Into time She looks at me Gives me a smile And says to me There will be a time Ditty When you'll be happy in Food City

It's a lifelong project of a life on the lash I've forgotten how to care but I'll remember for cash It's my party and I'll cry if I want to Light the fuse, sing the blues, I can die if I want to Tonight we're gonna bring tomorrow's happiness Gonna live like it's the end I love you to death, but I must suggest You'd better run, run, run boy Faster than the past Through the looking glass If you want the night to last You'd better run, run, run boy Faster than the past Through the looking glass If you want the night to last He's an old time blagger Wraps a hand in band Still knows the streets of Camden like the back of his hand He's an all time lover and a marathon man And with the strength of a thousand men He's a nightmare hangover He's a one night stand He can eat more chicken than any man in the land Well I've given up caring for happiness When this heart gives out is when I'll rest Run, run, run boy Faster than the past Through the looking glass If you want the night to last You'd better run, run, run boy Faster than the past Through the looking glass If you want the night to last Cause tonight we are gonna spend All tomorrow's happiness If we don't break before we bend And tonight your sole aside It'll turn out nice again It's only money in the end Run, run, run boy Faster than the past Through the looking glass If you want the night to last You'd better run, run, run boy Faster than the past Through the looking glass If you want the night to last You'd better run, run, run boy Faster than the past Through the looking glass If you want the night to last You'd better run