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“Divine Decline”
Barbara Roughton – 50/90 – 2010

Lyrics:

it’s Saturday noon
and I’m grumpy and tired
I can’t get the week off my mind
and I’m wired
I’m going ‘round
in overdrive
I’m going ‘round, ‘round, ‘round
in overdrive
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my mind’s in an argument
here’s what I should’ve said
then you invite me so sweetly
to come to bed
going for
some quiet time
gonna lay right down
in quiet time
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it takes me awhile
to recover my instinct
to feel what is happening
why would I want to think?
we’re going for
divine decline
we’re going down, down, down
divine decline
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you fill me up
fill me up
fill me to emptiness
push me right over the edge into willingness
I’m heading down now
the divine decline
I’m heading down, down, down
the divine decline
down, down, down
divine decline

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Lyrics:

I see a cloud that has your features
I feel your love come through the rain

Where did you go
I know I can’t know
I’m here all alone
With you

You cross my mind in ways I treasure
I fold my heart into your hand

Where did you go
I know I can’t know
I’m here all alone
With you

The days were long, now nights are longer
I hold you close against the cold

Where did you go
I know I can’t know
I’m here on my own
With you

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Lyrics:

we went to Sweetwater Creek
to get a nice break from the heat
to wander by water
by rocks and by ruins
get lost taking pictures
of ripples on pools

and when the light started to fail
and we were still on the trail

we heard the twilight band of August
playing their concert through the vale
we heard the twilight band of August
telling their tale

habits can be hard to break
we talk just to fill up the space
a comment on this, and a question on that
a point of confusion turns into a spat

but when the light started to fail
and we were still out on the trail

we heard the twilight band of August
playing their concert through the vale
we heard the twilight band of August
telling their tale

off in the distance the roar of the falls
we’re hiking our way back to ceilings and walls
suddenly nothing occurs as a rush
and something inside feels the need to be hushed

we heard the twilight band of August
playing their concert through the vale
we heard the twilight band of August
telling their tale…
we heard the twilight band of August
playing their concert through the vale
we heard the twilight band of August
telling their tale

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“Selkie” ©barbara, FAWM2020, Feb 2020

Lyrics:

Dark eyes are surfacing
out on the water
beckoning “darling, come home”
Fly to the window
and see if it opens,
he’s gone and there’s no one to know

My child I adore you,
I’ll try to come for you,
don’t cry when you wake for the day
For here I was withering,
starved of my soul,
I’m no good for you, wasting away

Today he was careless
A moment I’d hoped for
The warden not minding the keys
Wrapped in my element,
no looking back,
I run fast for the nourishing sea

Now stars shine above me,
I know who I am,
I remember what living is for
With dark eyes I’ll seek you
And swim close to greet you
With a heart so irreparably torn

Dark eyes are surfacing
out on the water
beckoning “darling, come home”

(C) Barbara Roughton

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