PUBIC ROSE song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

[based on a translation of the first poem of
20 LOVE POEMS by Pablo Neruda]

body of woman
thigh white hills
you look like a world
in full surrender

my body works you
like a field hand
and makes the sun leap
from the depths of your gender

I was a tunnel
the birds flew out
and the night
chose to invade

to save my life
I made me a knife
like an arrow ring
a stone in sling

but now it's payback
and I love you
body of silk
of moss of milk

the ships of breast
the eyes that know
the pubic rose
voice sad and slow

pubic rose
my pubic rose
where she goes
nobody knows
where she been
nobody sent
who could guess
where she went ?

body of woman
I save your grace
my thirst without limit
my changable race

dark riverbeds
where thirst is infernal
worn out from lust
and pain eternal

pubic rose
my pubic rose
where she goes
nobody knows
where she been
nobody sent
who could guess
where she went ?

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