From the recording Raga Poems
Lyrics
We Are Controlled, in raag Malkauns
We are controlled by what we can not know
The obscure cells that blink within the brain
The wild dark eye of the wary crow.
The tingling seed that lets the child grow
Is washed away by generations' rain
We are controlled by what we can not know.
Mingling lovers sleep, their skin aglow
At dawn they hear outside the window pane
The cold bleak cough of the patient crow.
Soldiers shed their blood upon the snow
And stare in fascination at the stain
They are controlled by what they dare not know.
Old men remember their father's death, and how
He stared and moaned but never could explain
The long dark flight of the weary crow..
The looking glass is old and now can show
The stubborn lines appearing once again
We are controlled by what we can not know
The wild dark eye of the wary crow.