Wedding Song from Traffic Island by Susie Asado

WEDDING SONG

we know each other from many life-times
we were Samurai on top of a hill
we had cool hairdos and sharp swords
and we were never at a loss for words

we lived in many countries once we spoke Russian counting clouds
we were cowboys on horseback and cavemen hunting cows
now you'll say there were no cows in prehistoric times
but I remember a toppled canoe and the river in your eyes

no matter what time in history or geography
we were always in music and in poetry
and sometimes we were in love
and sometimes we got married we got married

my memory reaches all the way back to the sea
two underwater creatures convinced we were alien from another planet
who had finally arrived to free them from their tyrant king
and he did fall from his throne when he saw us dance
and their prophecy was fulfilled by chance of his crown
braking on the tip of our shipwrecked boat

no matter what time in history or in geography
we were always in music and in poetry
and sometimes we were in love
and sometimes we got married we got married

in this life time there are airplanes cars and telephone poles
there are visas to more than one country and there's a lake and a coming home
a family so large you can barely fit them in a room
and so many friends that there are non left for foes
and so much food that soon we will have to lie down
or dance to save our bellies from balloons
dance to save our bellies from balloons

it is not just you getting married today
it is all of us all of us tying the knot in some way

• Acoustic
• folk
• indie
• pop
• Berlin