I see smiling faces
So beautiful and gay...

Is it love between us
When you fear me...

Sing to me of laughter
Songs resembling my heart...

It is the feel of a family united
In love and comfort...

A is for America,
Land of opportunity...

Mama's world is different than papa's
Hers is romance...

When the heart heaves
And air is let out...

On the day my father died
i should have been laughing...

The dark was a friend
For their tango...

This is a black country,
Many souls are black with the soil...

The night with its silver lights
Caresses my window sill...

Sometimes I wonder if
People understand me...