Baby baby baby blues
You were no one and everyone
In the year of the one-eyed sun
You were the eclipse of oranges
And a full moon smug with fools
My life’s footsteps & their shoes
Boyish books & broken cobwebs
Story princess & I another prince
But me in your fairytale, not mine.
You were no one and everyone...
O baby baby are these the blues
Born black & bred in this indigo
Thought we were sold all along
But turns out I’m just ‘take-back’
Young yesterday and ageing fast
So dismantle your Mandela bridge
Keep the Gau-train, give me rain
You were no one and everyone,
My Bob Dylan & their Bob Mugabe
Poet sage of Sumer once did say
That in a city without watchdogs
Fox is overseer - I’m no Sumerian
I prepare no brew for gods of sky
My offerings sink under virgin soil
But I’m a man of my word I tell you
& you’re no Mediterranean priestess
You were no one and everyone baby
I was everything you owned already
Got your text message the other day
Moved in with my friend the painter
Wrote he touches you like I never could
We should have ‘a sit down’ spelt out
Saturn conjunction crossed your zodiac
As it hit you that you kinda missed me
You’ll show me your portrait in the nude
Typed bye with same scores of X’s & O’s
O baby, you were no one and everyone
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