long time ago eh

when i was young (long time ago eh)

i walked

i saw

big city opened up it's mouth and yawned

inviting universe ravishing in beauty and furnished with fantasy

a playground.

i walked

beside the bars, the drunks, homeless, junkies,

ne'er-do-wells. 

city life created its own offspring, larvae ready to implode

destroyed already before incubation and (re)birth

i walked

i saw

them

them

them

and i heard the words when i saw

THEM

don't be like 

them

paraded by parents (their own minds clouded by what they were taught, afraid themselves)

don't be like

THEM

don't be another drunk indian

don't be another drunk indian

DON'T BE ANOTHER DRUNK INDIAN

a long time ago eh?

sunset smiled down on the man-made metropolis

green grass growing gaily down the boulevard

human footprint on the land.

once where women took care of the land, loved it, grew only what was needed

they are gone.

only big city opening its mouth, yawns

young eyes open up to far far away

the city has disappeared already because it has destroyed itself

multiple identities gone.

no more taking children down the damp sidewalk,

telling the kids

don't be like

them

no more.

water rises up to meet the sky and everything disappears.