ganesh Info
Lyrics
I was waiting for your gifts like a peg awaits a mallet
Now you’re stuck inside my head like peanut butter on my palate
My gratitude is heavy as an elephant’s head
I could dedicate my life, but I hope this song will do instead.
You’ve demolished all my hangups over pleasures of the flesh
all I can do is thank you Lord Ganesh
All the rogan josh in Scotland, all the haggis in Madras
Couldn’t answer all the questions I never would have asked
And those sitars won’t stop droning to that crazy tabla beat
Rock and roll restored my soul to my desperate dancing feet
I dug a fire pit in the backyard for burning albums by John Tesh
I’ll walk across them just to please you, Lord Ganesh.
If it hadn’t been for picture books you sent me in the post
I never would have tuned into your transcendental ghost
Now old St. Mary’s seems empty
Next to your pachydermal plenty
I worship a guy looks like an elephant-y
with Christmas coming on I get all post-advent-y
I snuck in before the pageant, stole the baby from the creche
Now that’s no donkey in the manger, that’s Ganesh.
Story
This song was written to pay off a karmic debt to a comics maven in Edinburgh, who is also an electronic avatar of Lord Ganesh.
It’s also got a swell verse about the Christmas season.