Album: The Sound of a Tree Falling

New York City Pakistan


I'm gonna work a couple a years here
then I'm gonna go home
where they treat women with respect
and don't make 'em go out of the house and work
That's how the home gets wrecked.";

If you want to meet a man from Pakistan
you might try riding in a New York City taxi cab
and if you are so inclined as to ask the man about his country
I think that you will find it is a very different place
from New York.
I got in the cab and the man started to tell me about his
family
and he said ";Miss are you interested in my country?";
And I said ";Yes.";
So there we were and I found out about his country.
";Well"; he said ";l come from a place that is so much more
relaxed than here"; and he told me that I would not believe
the difference
and I said to him ";How would you explain it to me?";
And he said ";l'm gonna work a couple a years here
and then I'm gonna go home
where they treat women with respect
and don't make 'em go out of the house and work.";