when you said you loved me what did you do with it after you didn't anymore after the rain of love dried after laughs after baths after toast & watermelon after cups of water in the night after morning smiles & phone calls i know what i did with mine i have a wall of pain painted nigerian indigo, created lyrics for a howlin' wolf, fashioned a mask of brown sadness, & in a midnight hour buried love's corpse quietly watching dry eyed as the heart-red crypt slipped peacefully deep into the sea of my experiences where the brackish-green, obsidian sealed sepulcher shall sleep untroubled by resurrection attempts when you said you loved me i never thought of it in the past tense what did you do with it after you didn't anymore _________________ Kalamu ya Salaam – vocals Stephan Richter – clarinet Wolfi Schlick – reeds Frank Bruckner – guitar Mathis Mayer - cello Georg Janker - bass Michael Heilrath - bass Roland HH Biswurm - drums Recorded: June 14, 1998 – "ETA Theatre" Munich, Germany —kalamu ya salaam