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Hyacinth Girl

from Beam Me Up, Scotty! by Liz McBride!

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Don't let the air stick on your breath from that cigarette, dragging you toward death. Why do I like it so when I'm alone?
The lies got better as you talked because your words are all for naught. Why is your body bound by what's around?

So I suppose that what I know is nothing more than feeling kept inside because of doubt.
But what comes out is something less since my own breath's escaping all around, into a world where I was born to die.

And as you're sitting in your chair, I can see you there, slouching without shame.
Why does the body maintain while the mind's destined to die because of pain and lies?

So what goes up must fall down all the same, but I see birds high in the sky, flying over earth. Is it their choice to stay above it all? Can science answer that which plagues the heart? Or is that art?

Hope has died with the one you love
You refuse to see with your own eyes, but others do

I love you is something often sought and falsely told to a tired soul until it grieves

Save your heart for the one you love
I was near to you but never dear like I believed...

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from Beam Me Up, Scotty!, released January 8, 2012

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Liz McBride! Youngstown, Ohio

"There are nightingales and nightingales. This one was a diva, a Callas. One would readily have disbursed a small fortune to hear her sing in a concert hall. Its tone, of an ineffable sweetness... Under a rich, deep, nocturnal sky, they would stand for an hour, hushed and spellbound, listening to the nightingale." ... more

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