Java Girl Songtext
von Visa Run Orchestra

Java Girl
Ooh
Java Girl

Her mother had a map
Of who she ought to be
Batik on Sundays
Prayers before the heat

Too many family voices
Telling what a girl must choose
Her father′s name was heavy
Like a debt she never earned

So she packed the life she wanted
And she left before they learned

If the heat is everywhere
She might as well be free
She takes the longer road
East to a wider dream


Java Girl
Carrying the morning light
Java Girl
Everything she owns
And still she travels light
Java Girl
She doesn't know for sure
But she knows what she won′t take anymore

No map
No mouth
No mirror owns her world
Java Girl

She works the early shift
And the late one too
Reception, café, villa gate
Faster than she seems

Her magenta Vespa
By the bougainvillea wall
She knew the whole hotel
Before the owner knew her at all

They read her like a caption
And got her story wrong


Java Girl
Carrying the morning light
Java Girl
Everything she owns
And still she travels light
Java Girl
She doesn't know for sure
But she knows what she won't take anymore

No map
No mouth
No mirror owns her world
Java Girl

She reads Chairil in the break room
Baudelaire when it rains
She loved a boy from Canggu
And a girl she won′t explain

She doesn′t have a word yet
For the life she's building here
But she knows the weight of leaving
Everything without a tear

She isn′t lost
She's only moving
Toward a life she couldn′t claim

Java Girl
Carrying the morning light
Java Girl
Everything she owns
And still she travels light
Java Girl
She doesn't know for sure
But she knows what she won′t take anymore

No map
No mouth
No mirror owns her world
Java Girl

When the island gets too loud
She can always come back home
Where nobody asks her to explain

And I see her
When she's tired of being brave
When she sleeps on my couch
And the world outside can wait

Oh Java Girl
My Java Girl

Oh Java Girl
My Java Girl

Oh Java Girl
My Java Girl

Oh Java Girl
My Java Girl

Oh Java Girl
My Java Girl

Ooh
Java Girl