Take me back to those flooded deltas,
To the minarets of Mullaghmore.
Where fiddles play during Diwali
And Aid El Keibar in Kilfinoir.
Bring me to the crossroads
Where sitars play at saris glance.
A game of handball with the lads
Or perhaps kabbadi before the dance.
Teach me Hindi, Urdu and Irish
And we will speak as we did before,
When we left like parting lovers
In those yesterdays of dreams foretold.
Let me sing to Siddartha as Dev once did,
See Jesus and Krishna swap stories through the night.
May the women and men feel free in their love
Until the golden dawn, until the morning light.
But in the morning light day break delusions,
Dreams soon pass and reality will burn.
For Castlebar or Bangalore
We've dreamt once again this myth of return.
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Written in July of 1994 and inspired by a study that revealed the Irish and Bangladeshis have the strongest sense of one day returning to their homeland. It contains a mix of Irish, Indian, Muslim, historical and geological references and I felt it was appropriate to post it given our imminent return to Ireland.
In places the words fail to scan and the lyric quality stumbles but I have decided to leave it in its original form.
What our return holds I don't know but we will be living close to a crossroads.
8 comments:
Nice picture.
Your crossroad is not unlike the picture. There will be plenty of opportunity to study Hindi, Urdu and Irish while you are here as the country has changed significantly since your last Irish experience.
Time will tell.
BTW, like that you can now use OpenID as a login here.
seems to me you are now past the crossroads and passed it a month or more ago...nice pic ... you don't come across many minarets in the west of Ireland tho' I may be open to contradiction on this ... hindu urdu irish i suspect all had the same grandfather
The piece is a bit of fusion cuisine!
Cultural differences juxtaposed by some cultural similarities.
I think you are right with your suspicions. Indo European is the parent of all of these languages.
See ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
cookin up a storm bro, the music of ireland has an eastern influence as explored by donal lunney amoungdt others ... we are all one family and like all families we just don't get on at times ... we'll figure it out in the end i guess
..the world i mean not the Mees it will take us much longer!!!
ha!ha! I think as families go we got it pretty well sorted!
So are you looking forward to going back to Ireland? Quite the journey you've had the last couple of years.
Yes, definitely looking forward to it. I left the west of Ireland 20 years ago so in some sense I will be an immigrant in my own country as Ireland has changed a lot in that time,
The last couple of years have been a challenge, looking forward to some more relaxed times!
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