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