Lyrics

These People

(Anders/West 2003)

These people who gave me life
Lived in color not black and white
The unforgettable two are still alive
Not true for the four and so on

These people who gave me life
What debt is owed and who pays the price
What kind of currency could we hope contrive
How contrived

You know I don't know
Names of one of the eight of mine
The powers of two obscured by time
And branching lines

If I give someone life
How long remembered
Bio memory down the line
And how does that matter

These people who save my life
Mostly women but none a wife
My sisters mainly have helped me to get by
Oh I can't imagine life without them

These people who save my life
A debt is owed and the payment's mine
The currency it's known and older than time
And I wanna pay it

If someone saves a life
They will be remembered
A type of memory down another line
And that seems to matter

These people ?