250,000 Miles

[Verse 1] Oh, where is the daughter that I carried? Gone to where the desert meets the sea Far from where our family's bones are buried Where mother moon walks arm in arm with me [Verse 2] A lady's maid for ladies who are waiting She paints the toes, prepares a stranger's tea What came before she must forget or bury Or carry deep inside her silently [Verse 3] The red lipstick faces in the alley Their echoes and their shadows wind and wind My daughter lives in still a deeper valley And I fear I am running out of time [Verse 4] Oh, where is the daughter that I carried? Gone to where the fears of men obey While mother moon hangs silently but is waiting Two hundred fifty thousand miles away Two hundred fifty thousand miles away