Lyrics

MARIGOT

When my roots died in L.A.
I left that town withering
Don’t it make you wonder
How everything evaporates
When pride comes to the stake—
Fuck it--
I don’t want to remember!

I want to hide
I went to seven cities
Looking for something substantial to find
Went looking for hope,
Looking for cheer,
Then I wound up gettin’ drunk
And buyin’ everybody beers

Hot winds down in Marigot
Teach me to forget you not
Where French girls dance into the night
Take me back to Marigot

Hot winds down in Marigot
Teach me to forget you not
Trade winds blow, and blow, and blow
Blow me back to Marigot,
Take me back to Marigot

Where the skies, black with desire
Go beyond imagination…
I watched a child being born
By the side of the road
To the moon’s illumination
Imagine blue—
Scratched in a million places by white stars
Thick with an infusion of cool rain,
The risk of birth and death
Imagine that woman’s pleasure and pain!

Hot winds down in Marigot
Teach me to forget you not
Where French girls dance into the night
Take me back to Marigot

Hot winds down in Marigot
Teach me to forget you not
Trade winds blow, and blow, and blow,
Take me back to Marigot
Lessons learned in Marigot

Words and Music by Richard Baskin