And I still think it's This Undoing World for the sad and Nothing is Permanent for the happy.
(Tony Kushner wrote the lyrics. This and the liner notes on Jews With Horns convinced me of his talent.)An Undoing World
The Klezmatics
By the time we're done with dancing,
Elsewhere darling you'll be glancing
And the night's a river-torrent tearing us apart.
Merely melody entwined us,
Easily the ties that bind us
Break in fibrillations of the heart.
Don't cry out or cling in terror
Darling that's a fatal error
Clinging to a somebody you thought you knew was yours.
Dispossession by attrition is a permanent condition
That the wretched modern world endures.
You drift away, you're carried by a stream.
Refugee a wanderer you roam;
You lose your way, so it will come to seem:
No Place in Particular is home.
You glance away, your house has disappeared,
The sweater you've been knitting has unpurled.
You live adrift, and everything you feared
Comes to you in this undoing world.
Copper-plated, nailed together, buffeted by ocean weather
Stands the Queen of Exiles and our mother she may be.
Hollow-breasted broken-hearted watching for her dear departed
For her children cast upon the sea.
At her back the great idyllic land of justice
For exilic peoples ponders making justice private property.
Darling never dream another woman might
Have been your mother
Someday you may be a refugee.
A refugee, who's running from the wars,
Hiding from the fire-bombs they've hurled;
Eternally a stranger out-of-doors,
Desperate in this undoing world.
Mother for your derelicted
Children from your womb evicted
Grant us shelter harbor solace safety
Let us in!
Let us tell you where we travelled
How our hopes our lives unravelled
How unwelcome everywhere we've been.
And top of the page, again...Carl Finch and Brave Combo wrote: Nothing is Permanent Lyrics
Nothing is permanent
Nothing will last forever
Nothing is permanent
Rain falls and turns to mud
And then it dries and blows away, away
Grass grows in yards of green
And then it gets too tall and causes worry
Need leads to satsified
Which doesn't last so long and well
You know
All things, always change
And change is fast if it's not slow
Nothing is permanent
Nothing will last forever
Nothing is permanent
Where was the neighborhood
Before they marked off all the streets and roads
Who came to live here first
And does it really matter
I don't think so
New stores of new design
Look old and dated long before they fall
Buildings of any sort are just lean-tos and that's all
Nothing is permanent
Nothing will last forever
Nothing is permanent
