She Travels
Lyrics by Robert Edgar, Music by Robert Edgar and Shuba Parthasarathy
[Overture: E, A, B7, B9, A/A, A/G, A/F#, A/E, A, Ab, A7, D, D7, G, C9, B7, B9]
[3/4 time, E, A]
She
Sits alone and watches as
The strangers pass. She wonders if
There is someone in this city
Who might know her name.
She would like to have a bite of food
She orders a glass of beer instead
Asks a stranger for a ballpoint pen
Draws a scene of water-lines of ink so blue.
I think then she’d sign her name and smear the ink with beer.
[4/4 time, A, Ab, A]
And she watches the night fall
And she whispers to herself
Words that she thought she’d forgotten
In another language she carefully says "Danke Shoen".
[4/4 time, D, D7, G7, C9, B7, B9]
Strange eyes turn as she leaves
She walks into the breeze and she smiles.
[4/4 time, A, Ab, A]
And she watches the night fall
And she whispers to herself
Words that she thought she’d forgotten
In another language she carefully says "Guten Abend".
[4/4 time, D, D7, G7, C9, B7, B9]
My eyes search for a wave
Outside on the horizon she breaks.
[Veena break]
[E, A]
She checks into her small hotel room
Throws her shoes upon the bed and walks
Down the hallway to the indoor pool
Dives into the water--swims with all her might.
Light
Falls into the ocean and
Loses all history as it
Reflects on all the drifting creatures
Borne in a new world.
She waits till her suit is dry, returning to her room.
[C, D, E]