Wild Traci - Geno Samuel

A young girl walked up to the older one, said, «Can I have some books?»

Then she opened up an empty satchel, to which she got curious looks

Bewildered, she gathered her forces, and led the young girl away

She pointed a crooked finger to the place where nothing gold can stay

She heard screaming from the tombs that were either for sale or for rent

She decided she couldn’t hear and straight she went

She met a man who wore a moustache on his head, she said, «Whatever that’s for?»

To which he promptly replied, «It keeps me away from the door»

She encountered a queer-looking woman, playing her turquoise Fender

Who lived on a diet of flies, to keep herself safe and slender

The young girl finally peered in into the hollow catacombs

She heard foreign words uttered from the dark: «Matte kudasai»

Wild, Wild Traci, you keep falling through the door

Why go wasting, your time on a simple bore?

Wild, Wild Traci, you go knocking where you shouldn’t

So try and hold back, the urge to find out what you don’t understand

She looked for answers in blackened hardback books, with no titles

While weary eyes peered at her, from a safe distance

She was all alone in a house of stone, devoid of rivals

Her fingers hungered for the yellow pages of an old man

The mute jazz band in the corner, began to play nothing

It filled the room with the music of silence;

the sound of joy

It fell on her head as if by chance, it was the one she sought after

She paved no way for the grimy man on the other side of the wall

She found a loud place to sit in peace and gather her thoughts

She pondered what she would do if they were caught

A secret scripture matured, by a sentry of neglect

Only a few stones' throws away, a mannequin wept

Wild, Wild Traci, you keep falling through the door

Why go wasting, your time on a simple bore?

Wild, Wild Traci, you go knocking where you shouldn’t

So try and hold back, the urge to find out what you don’t understand

She caressed the cover, of an undetermined author

And found that he was coarse to the skin

She dared not look ahead a single page, a solitary line to sin

From first word to the last, she uncovered her past, it made sense to her

Her heart skipped a beat, at every mention of His name

Everything she was taught, was not given a thought

Broken down one by one, under her blazing sun

His distorted words, made a sentence never heard

She became confused, then enraged

For her father, of long ago, now eternally caged

Subtle gleams of perspiration riddled her face

Like a burning man at his end of days, and the rhythm changed

She tried to divulge those lies, of an imminent paradise in favour of a bowl of

rice

Her tortured soul saw too much for one to hold

So she clutched tight to the mouldy book, closed her eyes, let out a scream,

and let go

Peering eyes came closer still, even those o’er the windowsill

Canyoned fingertips inspect the pristine one

Arrival has begun

She opened her eyes and was welcomed by the loved and lost

She counted her fingers and found that they matched the cost

She soon found that there wasn’t much to fear, soon enough, they lit the

candles in the wind

Music to hears, hailed from the sun, a storm of merry men, honoured the stage

Wild, Wild Traci, Wild, Wild Traci, you feel through the door

Wild, Wild Traci, Wild, Wild Traci, why go wasting your time on a simple bore?

Wild, Wild Traci, Wild, Wild, Traci, you went knocking where you shouldn’t

Wild, Wild Traci, Wild, Wild Traci, try and hold back the urge to find out what

you don’t understand

Come right in, come right in, we’ve been waiting for you, we can show you around

Hope you like, hope you like it so far