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Costume woman
My heart’s in ruins
Clutching the soil like it’s me
On the other end digging in
My heart’s in ruins
Toiled to it, clutching the soil like it’s me
Daring my heart to grow wings
And finally liberate me
The wings against the cage
Winding me up
The imaginary men have given me up
Ending the galvanizing
Dressed in the days
Rouging and bruising
Crying with certain clarity, purple
The body has settled with the blood
Coloring that’s all I think of
The imaginary men have given me up
My heart’s in ruins
Toiled to it, clutching the soil like it’s me
Costume woman
My heart’s in ruins
Daring my heart to grow wings
And finally liberate me
The wings against the cage
Winding me up
Heavy with emotion
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Into the Light
02:36
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There’s more to this code
Then roses or loyalty, authenticity
So much can’t be taught or told
You’ve come into the light
But it’s all the same
And I’m reading your veins
Like the palm of your hands
To acquire not to cherish what you hold
I’ve been picking passion and refining love
In disbelief, it’s decided on sight
Not any the wiser, of unspoken limits
The divide grows wider
And I’m always the outsider
But there’s familiar power and control
These towers hold me to unspoken limits
Things turn in my touch accidentally
But in yours it's intentionally
It’s my all in everything
Every step, head to toe
For the utmost, to perfection
You’ve come into the light
But it’s all the same
And I’m reading your veins
Like the palm of your hands
To acquire not to cherish what you hold
I’ve been picking passion and refining love
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Candelabra
02:07
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Holding a candle engraved with my name
Poised to stay through the weather
Regardless of the burning
My soul does the working
It’s just superficial harm
The running down my arm
The tears kiss me quiet
My body hallowed
Encompassing the glow
The cracks and the faults
Engulfed in blue fire
Paying dearly
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Dark Before Night
02:44
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I’m tired of the causality
Please make it sweet
Give its years to make it sure
Please make it sweet
I’m yours, I’m sure
Love slow and burning, all enduring
Like a tightrope, I’m walking
The heart is so yearning to the point of hurting
Every step in your shoes
To be the one receiving
The beholder of affection
To be yours
You be mine
I tried to keep my finger on the pulse
Steady to not let love die
To no wandering eyes or mind
Oh, but it’s dark before nighttime
I saw the tenderness in your eyes
Your vulnerability caught me by surprise
Love slow and burning, all enduring
Like a tightrope, I’m walking
The heart is so yearning to the point of hurting
Every step in your shoes
To be the one receiving
The beholder of affection
To be yours
You be mine
Up in smoke, gone in the night
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So seductive in the open
So bold even in the light
The Harlot of another time
Parting lips to show her teeth
Beckoning, beckoning, beckoning
Calloused in memory
I only take what I need
Bottled up inside of me
Turning on the charm
Laying it on strong
Grabbing by the heart
Drowned in their better nature
Choked up
So seductive in the open
So bold even in the light
The Harlot of another time
Knuckles white
Parting lips to show her teeth
Beckoning, beckoning, beckoning
Come to lay at your feet in reprieve
A new grievance, a new cruelty
On the cover
Grabbing by the heart
Calloused in memory
Drowned in their better nature
Choked up
They say, I only take what I need
Bottled up inside of me
No embellishing, all I need
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Phantom Behind my Eyes
03:43
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You appear without a name again
You are the phantom pains dancing in my nerves
Gone just to come again
I reach as if to receive an outstretched hand
But I turn up empty
Holding nothing
Here’s to blind hoping
A hollow space
Even the air evades me
You triumph again
No thought stands a chance
No rhythm to my heart
My stomach in knots
You reach through me
You see through me
With Jack-o lantern lights
There’s life behind my eyes for the evening
You set me on fire
Pinned between life, death, dreams and ecstasy
Gambling everything
Peace sedated yearning
You appear without a name again
You are the phantom pains dancing in my nerves
Gone just to come again
I reach as if to receive an outstretched hand
But I turn up empty
Grasping at nothing
Holding nothing
But myself, I fall short
Here’s to blind hoping
A hollow space
Even the air evades me
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A Flower in Disguise Ohio
Singer/songwriter/producer/visual artist and writer.
Making experimental music
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