India 

Through the market stalls I saw her silhouette

Careful of her fathers glance

Working after school for the family

A world away from me

She took that chance

 

A girl from India is my surprise

Silk and saffron soul against my polythene life

A girl from India has stolen my heart

She whispers quiet answers she knows to be true

Into my worried mind

 

Sometimes I go indigo

No sense in anything I hear

The five o'clock news

Foreign blues

I used to let it all get through

Before there was you

 

A girl from India say "here is home"

She brings me sanity through all the madness I've known

A girl from India has changed my life

She whispers quiet answers she knows to be true

In these uncertain times

 

A girl from India is my surprise

Jade and Jasmine breathes life into my carbon monoxide

A girl from India has stolen my heart

She whispers quiet askings she knows I will do

Ease my troubled mind