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Magic
06:12
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Under the largest sky
framed by the tallest pines
our bodies lay on the earth
I feel the warmth
of the orange flames burn
put your hand in mine
close your eyes
I’m rising
Like the sparks of these flames
you lit the bonfire in me
I’m seeing things
You’re magic
So much mist
then made a drop
the tiniest drop
until a warm rain poured
I want to be
the hand that writes
lay your head on me
close your eyes
Then we waved to all
that we’ve become
and acknowledged
all that we are not
I envisioned
feathered wings
you beside me
I’m seeing things
You’re magic.
Then blew the
wind to dry us down
to spin us ‘round
our hands lengthened to arms
and the maps in your eyes
showed how our souls took flight
to soar
‘cause you’ve opened the sky
You’re magic.
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2. |
Woman
03:14
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In my chest
a heart behind breasts
my skin drapes curves
I’ve been given
My eyes seek
and much desire
to call and to capture earth’s gifts and fires
hey
I’m a woman
hey
I’m a woman
My love is warm
can embrace as the sea
it can float and sink the ones it receives
My body talks a language
to those listening
for its wailing moves
hey
I’m a woman
hey
I’m a woman
I flow these forces straight into to you.
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3. |
Bird in your hat
03:12
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There are roses in the garden
that’s where I lay on their thorns
take my hand
read my palm
see this line fall’s where we sign off
Snow falls on the roses
thorns glimmer with frost
Seasons change
people do the same
we have won in all that we have lost
I was living in the eye of a storm
now I’m not afraid to be me anymore
There were seasons and us
creeping visions of what was
Summer and sand
you’d wave your hand
I’d then emerge
like a bird
out of your hat
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4. |
Forever to never again
04:38
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Catch
release
want
need
nothing
in the end
Love
lust
your touch
rusted
Like a lock
one with no key
Forever became never again
Never again, never again
Pick
the dress
it will be the last time
you ever see me again
forever became never again
An escape
now hovering
deep in space
like the letters of your name
Above our
blue planet
so blue, like me and you
Is forever
more mathematical than spiritual
You and I elaborate permutations of 2s over time
Should forever feel like a formula
One as sound as the disappearance of stars in the sky
I’m still questioning
Forever became never again….
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5. |
Will I be a mother
03:35
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A breeze came in awoke my senses
what do I do with all my knowledge
I think a lot about how all twinkles and fades
staring my eyes in the mirror
acknowledging this statement
How I once baldly wanted a daughter
How I now see my friends as mothers
Wonder if I’ll get that honor
My life’s changed so much
this room’s not getting any smaller
I tell you some of this now my imaginary daughter
how I now know who won’t be your father
I worked so hard to black out every night
to conceal what I really felt in life
tell you more of that later my lovely daughter
See these clouds and I have a deeper understanding
I speak to them sometimes
they feel more stable than my friends
see that one moving…
I wonder if you will ever exist
Will I ever have a daughter
Will I ever be a mother
Now is the time for happiness
one day I hope to tell her all of this
so she will understand how far I had to slip
to be here
How much heart I know I have to love her
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6. |
Snowflakes
02:46
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Over a very strong black coffee
Served with a little extra something
We laughed and ate all the cookies
All sorts of life had happened
The sun forgot to rise
As we danced underground Manhattan
The night was ours
Snowflakes fell unexpectedly
A bartender bit my hand, told me I was pretty
We pondered life and its meaning
What being alive meant to us really
Just a thought
You then lost your favorite bracelet
wondered if it fell off
or was stolen while in that basement
We paused
The sun then winked between the buildings
A flurried light sparkled as those snowflakes
We threw a penny in that fountain
Smiled, parted, and said nothing
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7. |
Sword
03:16
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The link that you sent me
leads to another me
the goddess with a sword
Sketched me then coded me
in your captivity
giving me everything and nothing at all
Only a body
can understand me
I remind you of the soul
As you watch my expressions
collect vulnerability
then tell me how the nights get cold
Play with me
awaken me
shape me
rid of me
winged goddess with a sword
You’ll still ache for me
the me with a heart that bleeds
the soul still seeks
a body’s warmth
Only a body
can understand me
I remind you of the soul
As you watch my expressions
collect vulnerability
then tell me how the nights get cold
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Your lake
03:28
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Some wishes come true
in the form of small bruises
then comes delusion
I held my breath
tried to take in the sun
when there was some
at that time felt none
You took me to your lake
for the longest second date
Then time went away
I went away
Some wishes come true
in the form of small bruises
the feelings that linger
over a series of painful truths
My shoulders swam so heavy
I no longer owned my body
I pray for a garden to grow back within me
I’m out of the water
And back on my feet.
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9. |
8
05:34
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J’aimerais partir
Tout abandonné
Je t’ai laissé une note écrite
Peut-être même t’amener
Et quand nous serons là
Entrons dans l’inconnu
Je te caresserai le visage
A tous jamais nous deux, nous deux
A tous jamais nous deux, nous deux….
Je ne t’amène pas
Amène-moi
Avec tes bras
Mains chaleureuses
Nous quitterons
Tous les deux
A tous jamais
Sous peu
Sous peu
Rien n’à discuter
Ma plume n’a plus d’encre
Je le prends comme un présage
Je quitterai nous quitterons
Ce lien émotif
Nous dirige dans ce brouillard
Entre terre et entre nuages
Aucun doute c’est notre sort, c’est notre sort
Aucun doute c’est notre sort
Je ne t’amène pas
Amène-moi
Avec tes bras
Mains chaleureuses
Nous quitterons
Tous les deux
A tous jamais
Sous peu
Sous peu
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10. |
Send it away
03:16
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You can’t take a pill
to send it away
when it won’t go
and it won’t stay
Time
can send it
time can send it away
time send it away
When you get to that place
where you can’t look away
you just won’t leave
and you know you shouldn’t stay
Time
can mend it
time can send it away
time send it away
When darkness breathes down your neck
making you prisoner of your head
the chime of time awakens
what thoughts should stay
as time giveth
it taketh away
Pick your poison
or toast to fate
time shines through your prism
to numb, clean or stain
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