Why - Carla Bley, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra

Why

Has never been

Too good to you

So you show aloud

What why

Never did for you

And wait

Star bright

Star bright

Where is the night?

His friends:

We get our water

And you get yours

Ginger:

David

Lying there chewing

In bed a string

Knotted about his neck

What is there

For an escalator

To bring to him?

His fears

As unnatural

As he was able

His mind

A chair

Looking

For the table

His stomach full of worms

His head full of

Ginger and his friends:

Other people’s stomachs

His friends:

Here comes the lamb

Ginger:

Nurses dyeing their hair

Don’t care

If the horse is locked

The house still there

It doesn’t seem

To matter to them

The traces

Of horses

And pineapple

And cheese

So many ingredients

In the soup

HIS FRIENDS (on their sides):

No room for a spoon

Dreams as long as roads

Ginger:

Don’t let no five and dime baby

Wreck your million dollar heart

Your million dollar heart!

LION:

It’s not what you can say

It’s not what you can see

It’s not what you can do

It’s not what you do say

It’s not what you do see

It’s not what you do do