Forgotten Negro Lyrics

Colored street filled with strange life

Young children run naked through the fire hydrant streams

Clothed with the warm caress of Mother Sun

Lovers locked together by secrets

Shove their affections into the onlooker's eye

The tavern spills out their seed-baring patrons

Holding their posterity in warm grip

And the forgotten young negro

Runs into the forest far from sullen city

He knows the trees will listen

And kinky hair covered in twigs and caterpillars

On half-eaten leaves

Protrude from within the mulberry bushes bright with red freckles

He hides

He hides

And he hopes

With child-like naiveté

That the knot holes will swing open

And show the belly of the oak's nectar

And erase his forgotten life

His forgotten life