The Klezmatics - An Undoing World lyrics

By the time we're done with dancing, Elsewhere darling you'll be glancing And the night's a river-torrent tearing us apart. Merely melody entwined us, Easily the ties that bind us Break in fibrillations of the heart. Don't cry out or cling in terror Darling that's a fatal error Clinging to a somebody you thought you knew was yours. Dispossession by attrition is a permanent condition That the wretched modern world endures. You drift away, you're carried by a stream. Refugee a wanderer you roam; You lose your way, so it will come to seem: No Place in Particular is home. You glance away, your house has disappeared, The sweater you've been knitting has unpurled. You live adrift, and everything you feared Comes to you in this undoing world. Copper-plated, nailed together, buffeted by ocean weather Stands the Queen of Exiles and our mother she may be. Hollow-breasted broken-hearted watching for her dear departed For her children cast upon the sea. At her back the great idyllic land of justice For exilic peoples ponders making justice private property. Darling never dream another woman might Have been your mother Someday you may be a refugee. A refugee, who's running from the wars, Hiding from the fire-bombs they've hurled; Eternally a stranger out-of-doors, Desperate in this undoing world. Mother for your derelicted Children from your womb evicted Grant us shelter harbor solace safety Let us in! Let us tell you where we traveled How our hopes our lives unraveled How unwelcome everywhere we've been