Pacific Overtures1976
Boy:
Someone reads a list from a box.
Samurai:
Someone talks of laws.
Old Man:
Then they fan a bit.
Boy:
Someone bangs a fist!
Samurai:
Someone knocks.
Old Man:
Now there was a pause.
Samurai, Old Man, Boy:
Then they argue it.
Samurai:
'But we want, no you can't, and we won't, but we need it, and we want, will you grant, if you don't we concede it,' I can hear them...
Old Man:
And they sat through the night and they lit yellow tapers, I was there then...
Boy:
And they chat, and they light, and they sit signing papers, I am there still - If I weren't whose to say, that they're happening?
Reciter, Samurai, Old Man, Boy:
It's the fragment not the day/ It's the pebble, not the stream/ It's the ripple not the sea/ That is happening/ Not the building but the beam/ Not the garden but the stone/ Only cups of tea/ And history/ And someone in a tree!
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