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Walk Into All Souls' Day
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gloomy, pretty, unrefined, valium-speed chick rock
my first reviewer called it "a foundation for a dark, shadowy rock opera that someone would listen to while drinking a bottle of wine and contemplating jumping off a bridge". she wouldn't tell me whether or not they'd jump.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #861
Peak in subgenre #178
Author
Michelle Rogers
Uploaded
February 14, 2005
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MP3 3.1 MB • 128 kbps • 3:22
Lyrics
September died today. I go out walking, I need my sword for a cane I left my house unlocked in case I walk into All Souls' Day Thinking how we begin so righteous and well and how we end struggling to merely hold ourselves. I thought there’d be more to make of my last time through the city unsupervised, No nurse or wife. I guess I miss the blind who led the blind, I guess holding hands needed no eyes. I look to the ground and point at my words getting the death they deserve. I’m not in awe of the earth. All my lovers have been deafer than the dead and I’ve had to hear the world crumble for them. I don’t have ears left to be a better friend or to listen for another kingdom even if it‘s singin‘ about how we can get in. I’ve stayed limber and thin to contort into everyone I’ve been. I took the form of a child. I smiled every time I was told I had your eyes. I held you when you were motherless And again when you were childless. I gave you the illusion that you were not childless all the while. I never learned to sing, I hummed with the sewing machine, Trying to make clothes for you, Find a simpler way to love you. I should have been more typical and less difficult. I should have made children for you. I learned to drive, I learned to drink, I learned to smile. I passed my heart around; it was passed out when it got to you. But didn’t I take my dress off, become sexless, and unsex you? Why couldn’t I get my mind off you? *artwork by my dad
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