Grid Gone Down

Hindered in India
by the power cuts
by using too much power
the whole system shuts

Six million people                      Curry plant
affected                                       do surplant
the current needed                       the need for meat
deflected                                      where the physical
                                                    and the spiritual
                                                     do meet
The grid gone down
in silent town                               Curry plant                      Can't expect
back to rural                                 grow                                to walk
pursuit                                           in the vegetarian             when others run
                                                      kingdom so                     can't expect
Electricity won't respark              Aromatic leaf                   to spoil
after usage beyond                       beyond belief                   everyone else's fun
disrepute                                       yo're the chief                  match fixing
                                                      yo're relief
                                                      for cooking                      Its not cricket 
The grid gone down                      looking for                       yor cheating
in silent town                                 the curry plant                 yorself
darkness reigns                              in a hurry                          shame on yor wealth
by nite                                            to decant
because one person                        the sauce                          Can't expect
used one extra lite                          of course                          to be noble 
                                                        yo're raising                    when you
                                                        the heat                            hobble on
Six million people                           in force                            robbing the truth
in India                                                                                    of all its proof
in silent town                                  Curry plant
the grid gone down                         the miracle                       Its not cricket
once                                                 the invented                     match fixing
of great renown.                              pinnacle                            its not cricket
                                                         Curry plant                      yor betwixting
                                                         grows
                                                         we know                          Can't expect runs
                                                          in vegetarian                    when you walk
                                                         kingdom so                      can't believe
                                                         look to cook                      all yor talk
                                                         curry plant
                                                          where you go.                  Don't believe it
                                                                                                   its not cricket
                                                                                                   match fixing
                                                                                                   you always trick it

                                                                                                   Yo're not brout up
                                                                                                    on fair play
                                                                                                    the English left
                                                                                                     early in day.

Some don't drink
the water
if they're not used
some falter with the food
the cook's the one's accused

If yo're not used to the climate                    Flies are always with us
if the heat you hate                                      where there's food around
then yo're resigned to yor fate                     in the outdoor markets
when yo're in India                                      of the bartering sound
without all the things you know
and you can't assimilate to cultures             Flies fly hardly ever  
in a 40 degree glow                                      they stay around this place
                                                                      too many of them
                                                                     for too little space
Look for shade
book into shadow                                         Nuisance and a hinderence
the elephant's at the window                         in every single second
of yor small hotel                                          not with these winged things
and if this sunshine you could sell                had you reckoned
you'd mark how fly heat fell
                                                                       Tiny mites
                                                                        in yor site
When yo're in India                                        the musin cover's tite
and yo're not quite the type                             just hope not many of them
and yo're as dry                                               want to take a bite
as that snake                                                    take flite
that dances to a pipe                                        flies fly
                                                                         tho hardly ever
                                                                         you never seem to do 
When yo're in India                                         flies fly
its like yo're not yorself                                   so we don't 
and you can't buy some cool                            have to try
with any of yor wealth.                                    to ward them off
                                                                          til we die
                                                                          til we start to cry

                                                                          Flies fly
                                                                          to take off now
                                                                          on you we rely.