GO AWAY TO HIMALAYAS

Perhaps for some it’s just the thing they treasure To push where people dance and sing and shout But I love sheer and roaring waterfalls And mountains to the heavens reaching out Let me go away to Himalayas In the primal silence let me be There I’ll shed it all, be bare as day is And no one will come bothering me Let me go away to Himalayas Let me go and leave me there for good Or else I’ll start howling, or else I’ll start barking Or else I might eat somebody up There I’ll forget it all and leave the world behind me Where patient herds of fools keep standing by They ache from AIDS and runaway inflation And still believe the Bolsheviks won’t die Let me go away to Himalayas In the primal silence let me be There I’ll shed it all, be bare as day is And no one will come bothering me Let me go away to Himalayas Let me go and leave me there for good Or else I’ll start howling, or else I’ll start barking Or else I might eat somebody up