Black - Bambara

He’s bright and mad and I’m too drunk to walk straight

I’ll just end up like his lion

Roaring weak while he beats stars into my mane

Until all I see is black

I flipped a coin in the kitchen

She started crying when she saw it was tails

She said: «I guess it means that I’m moving»

Bones rolled through the bird on her wrist like wind through a veil

You better not look

Back

'Cause all you’ll see

Is black

«Where do you think you’ll be going?»

I mumbled quietly through my chipped front teeth

But I don’t think she could hear me

For the screech of passing trains and all the sobbing

She dropped her hands from her face

I saw her bird fall how light bends

Then I thought of Orion

And if he could fall how her bird did then

Would he bleed out like prisms?

All cut up and colorful

A constellation with a crack in his skull

A constellation with a crack in his skull

She said

Better not sleep

Like that

'Cause all you’ll see

Is black