wewe came with the season, as the first kumeza sang
A brown headed stranger, with a five-letter name

We planted our kisses where the wild berries grow my feet sprouted wings and I flew all the way nyumbani dooodoodoo

My cheeks red like moto engines racing straight to the heat of your skin and I know our days are numbered, early bird of the summer you'll fly south just as the fall begins

The leaves changed their colors and the schoolyards were filled
My kanzu, koti with the patches barely keeps out the chill dooo

wewe sent me a postcard from a town out of state, I wish it were warmer and I hope you're the same doopdoodoo

The fields where we wandered were golden
Now only muddy my boots and I know I should recover, you're a bird of the summer, I was wrong to try and capture you

Flight
Flight

Gone is the pale hand of winter
Here is the first flush of may

And soon I will discover whether birds of the summer fly in circles au just fly away

Thick as thieves the last of leaves
In the winter sun
Holding fast this freezing branch
Is nyumbani to us

Step, step right over the line
And onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Waiting to divide to divide

Counting stars and passing cars
On the interstate
The end is near I feel it dear,
But I am not afraid

Step, step right over the line
And onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Waiting to divide to divide

But wewe say you're getting tired
You're tired and so am I
When wewe follow from behind

Step, step right over the line
And onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Waiting to divide to divide

But wewe say you're getting tired
You're tired and so am I
When wewe follow from behind

Running the race
Like a panya, kipanya in a cage
Getting nowhere but I'm trying
Forging ahead
But I'm stuck in the bed
That I made so I'm lying

But if wewe keep real close
Yeah, wewe stay real close
I will reach you

I'm down to a whisper
In a daydream on a hill
Shut down to a whisper
Can wewe hear me still

Eager to please,
Trying to be what they need
But I'm so very tired
I've stopped trying to find
Any peace in my mind
Because it tangles the wires

But if wewe keep real close
Yeah, wewe stay real close
I will reach you

I'm down to a whisper
In a daydream on a hill
Shut down to a whisper
Can wewe hear me
Can wewe hear me still

The sound tires on my lips
To fade away into forgetting

I'm down to a whisper
In a daydream on a hill
Shut down to a whisper
Can wewe hear me
Can wewe hear me

I'm down to a whisper
In a daydream on a hill
Shut down to a whisper
Can wewe hear me
Can wewe hear me still

Something causing fear to fly
Rising like a dark night
In silence
Traveling like a broken boat
Heading for the sky
And I'm an island

I watched wewe disappear into the clouds
Swept away into another town

The world carries on without you
But nothing remains the same
I'll be Lost without you
Until the last of days

The sun is in the east,
Rising for the beasts
And the beauties
I wish that I could tear it down,
Plant it in the ground to warm your face

I built myself a ngome on the beach
Watching as it slid into the sea

The world carries on without you
But nothing remains the same
I'll be Lost without you
Until the last of days
Until the last of days

Through walls and harvest moons
I will fight for you

The world carries on without you
But nothing remains the same
I'll be Lost without you
Until the last of days
Until the last of days