dear Mister God

I’ve been ‘avin you on all these years

But yeah it don’t happen that way

Nobody can put one over you

So I guesss you been just bidin yr time

Maybe laughin in yr sleeve

Mebe cryin…(I hope not)

But oh yeah bein the joker at the party is fine by me

Would thrill me to bits to see ya laugh

Yr guts out

it would

 

So y’see ‘ere ah was all ready

To load up the confessional

Spill the beans on everythin I’ve done

Give ya the ole teary

“I repent” song-n-dance

But ya wave it aside

Impatient wantin the party goodies

But I guess this one time

I need to do this

Sorta kinda preamable like

And that’s the last this songsters gonna dish

After that

We’re gonna let it roll, baby roll

 

So I’m goin to go

Flat out after

Each day

(like anna)

But I guess sayin it is stupid enough and

Ah just made it twice as difficult for me to do

I aint sorry where I’ve been

But I sure am sorry that I didn’t hold your hand

Been over in ole Nick’s den

Slep’ wi’ ‘im if you must know

Dragged yr name aroun’ in the muck

Tried to be the devil’s own

But it didn’t just kinda ring true ya know

Even all my anger and rage

My hate pourin fire thro my veins

Was all just your grief n pain

Remindin me how good it is

When you do your thing

 

So right

Here it is

Am done

Ole Nick

‘ee can go bugger ‘isself

For all I care

Gonna get this show on the road

Gonna gonna gonna

Y’know what all that means

So kick your heels back

And sink down there in yourn cushions

And watch another sun run do its thing

 

‘N all my needs ya already know

Like the help I need

With askin the right questions

Seein the right me

‘coz if Anna needed it

I need it too

Only jus’ ‘bout a squillion times more

 

So now you can play your cards

My stack is all dealt out

On the board

Yeah ok, I’ve still got a few

Aces to run through

Some twinklies stored up

It’ll come when it is due

Till then you know

We’ll just let it ride

And watch it all play out

In rhyme n verse

‘coz you’re the one

 

(and mebe just mebe

I can stick one

In ole Nick’s eye

Right there in the center

Of his face

Something he can’t do nuffin

But accept

And let it ride for all to see

For all eternity

Can I?

Huh?

Can I?)

So they tell me you are

Building a shipyard here

 

Olive Ridleys?

What’s that?

 

Miniaturize them to cocktail shrimps

Mr. Tata roars

Serve them with eviction papers

Tell them to jump off the EAC[1]

At the Nicobar coast…

 

Ah, Mr. Tata, Mr. Tata

Such wisdom

Such verve

Such out-of-the-box thinking

 

The value of industry

Outweighs the needs

Of rootless terrapins

Some argue

Let’s not spoil the

India shining party

Talkin such malarkey

 

Environmental impact?

WE ARE THE ENVIRONMENT

Thunder the titans of commerce & industry

Rape, pillage, rout, and plunder

The soil from under

The skies floating above

 

In twenty years Mr. Tata

In twenty years

You will be just another plaque on the wall

What will it say I wonder

Another Ozymandias wreck?

“I am the prince of the all that I survey”

Over the shifting desert sands

Dead prince

over

Dead habitats

Destroyed ecologies

 

Or will it say something different?

I wonder

I wonder

So you think you can

Hide away

Curse the living ground

‘Neath your feet

Don’t care if

The shit house

Flames out in a flash

They’ve had it comin

You may growl

But you know

That’s just tricks n twists
For not shinin at your party best

 

Aint gonna sleep till you

Give me

Your song

Get your party threads out

And strum those chords

 

Yes we know u are a fake

But on stage you are

Just what we need

 

Storms are a comin’

Down this century

Could kill freedom

Could kill fearless-ness

But you know that’s all just a muckeroo

Nobody can break our shine

‘Less you want them to

‘N even then its not a cinch

Jealousy has its own sweet plans

 

And oh oh oh oh

Yeah, yeah, yeah

That’s when atoms collide

Joy goes nuclear

 

And oh oh oh

Aint that just what we’ve been waiting for

Wouldn’t want to miss it now

Would ya?

Come on sign up

‘fore the train leaves town

Let the rhythm work you over

Light up the shadowless day

‘coz its

the only way to go

Yeah, its the only way to go

…to go ...to go …to go …to go (fade)

Hold on to your sanity

Let go of your vanity

It’s taken you nowhere till today

Yeah, I know you got all this pride

Stacked to win at number one

 

You are who you think to be

No one else will see that way

Even if you make it to

The hit parade

 

I know you love to do

what you do

Everyone will still believe in you

Make up all that’s lost till now

Recount all the stars above

Earn your stripes on the battle field

Don’t stop till the day is done

And you can go with a blissful smile

About the little toil

You had planned so long ago

 

I know you love me more than anything

I wish I could say the same today

I can cry my heart at that

But it aint gonna change a thing

My love for you is only words

Spouted to meet the shrink’s demand

And yet I’ll say this again

 

Hold on to your sanity

Let go of your vanity

It’s taken you nowhere till today

Gotta hug the sun and smile away

And let go of all these foolish damns

 

I can see your crinkly eyes

Tryin to stay dry but waterin away

Makes my dream rise like a mist

Waterin the groves of future kind

 

That’s all that you are here to do

Burn down all these crazy clues

Show me what I want to hear

Thrill my eyes with the sound

Turn it right all around

 

‘N the only way that can be done you know is if you…

Hold on to your sanity

Let go of your vanity

Hold on to your sanity

Let go of your vanity

 

Yeah, yeah yeah…

 

 

Inspired by the Tehelka article on Rahul Gandhi: The Pilgrim Prince (Vol 5, Issue 18, May 10, 2008)

Out in the shadows
of our future
I see
Your death certificate
Signed and singed
With the peculiar fires
of hate
Men of evil saying:
Sale ko bhi ooda dega
Baap jaisa

But that could be
Just another nightmare...
of
Just another citizen
Terrified
Watching our country
Being Hijacked
And everything
A power driven mania
To subvert justice
Deny truth

That's the way its always been my friend,
With such as these:
A conspiracy to power
Ratcheting any idealogy
To promote hate, sow discord
From The Holocaust to Rwanda
History works overtime
To repeat itself through
These men of hate

BUT:
Even if our blood should stain the earth
Even if we should become just dust and manure
To enrich our soil
We've only fallen at the hands of our brothers
Which is honor enough.

Misguided as they are
We are yet
one with them
In our love
The impossiblity of hate
Constraining us
Urging us
To do everything that we must
To bring to reality
what our fathers dreamed of
in two short words:
सत्यमेव जयते (satyamev jayate)