Yaffa

Lyrics

There are flowering dogwoods
and willows that weep
and honeysuckle
don’t she smell so sweet
There are strangers passing by
Ain’t it strange, ain’t it nice
and I’m thinking of you
thinking of you

Tell me
where does the time go
walking through history
of this mystery
that breathes flames and water
and heartbreak and praise
oh wrinkling time, day passin’ by

Long grasses
of library park
my father’s mother
and my blood brother

Mimi
losing her memory
wrinkles and forgetting eyes
that make me cry

Tell me
where does the time go
walking through history
of this mystery
that breathes flames and water
and heartbreak and praise
oh wrinkling time, day passin’ by

Oh brother it’s good to see you
oh and you’re alright
one-way to Lima
and you saw the light

cause the medicine man called
the medicine man called
and you answered
and you answered

Tell me
where does the time go
walking through history
of this mystery
that breathes flames and water
and heartbreak and praise
oh wrinkling time, day passin’ by

Oh the truth ain’t easy to see
and you can’t unsee
what you’ve seen
but you can give love
amidst the intolerable pain
of us losing this place
to greed and hate

for there is still hope
for there is still faith
and there is still love
to be made
under flowering dogwoods
and willows that weep
and honeysuckle
don’t she smell so
so sweet