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Mistletoe Angel
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0 posted 2004-01-14 05:35 PM


Persephone
By: Noah Eaton
1/11/03

She went out picking flowers on the boondocks
Innocence was her middle name, that was all she got
Yet who knew that her name alone can bring destruction
Who anticipated the patriarchical revulsion?

She wore a charm-bracelet her mother handed down to her
Helped harvest the corn, bathed in the spring waters
Who knew behind the hollyhocks
A usurper was grinning with a menacing scoff

And before you know it you're taken away
Your summers tattered, abducted and raped

If you only knew just how good it could have been
I've never seen this side of you before
What's ineluctable cannot be compromised
We could have lived twelve months
But you will only live eight...
No, no, you will only live eight...

Demeter comes crying, holding her bracelet
Swears she'd do anything to rescue her from the chthonic
A mother knows best, while Zeus knows squat
To let the ying and the yang co-exist in the same pot

Pomegranate is stained on her lips, she can't go back
Battalions of purple heartbeats begin to attack
While the last decent poet stares behind her veil
Where kundalini has a last resort to prevail

And now they accuse the elders as crones
The avatar is silenced from the throne

If you only knew just how good it could have been
I've never seen this side of you before
What's ineluctable cannot be compromised
If you only knew just how good it could have been
We could have lived twelve months
But you and I will only live eight
No, no, you and I will only live eight...
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Why must we compromise?
Why have sense of time?
Why think of inunction
When we're trivialitized
Unbridled, carefree souls
Forced to have to think of Hades
With all their mothers crying tonight...
Where Rhea is aging with a menopaused insight...
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You and I will only live eight months
No, no, you and I will only live eight months...
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If you only knew just how good it could have been
I've never seen this side of you before
What's ineluctable cannot be compromised
If you only knew just how good it could have been
We could have lived twelve months
But you will only live eight...
No, no, you will only live eight...
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I would go back home where I belong
But I'm way out in the background...
I would go back home where I belong
But I'm way out in the background...
I would go back home where I belong
But I'm way out in the background...







"You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20

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garysgirl
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1 posted 2004-01-14 07:16 PM


Hi Noah,
Thanks for saharing another of your songs
with us. I still would love to hear the music, too.
Do you write your own music?
Hugs  
Ethel

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2 posted 2004-01-14 11:29 PM


Another awesome song my friend.

Cold hands means a warm heart

Kristin Eve
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3 posted 2004-01-14 11:35 PM


this song is great. Its veri Tori Amos or Holly McNarlandish. You write beautiful lyrics,,, i would like to hear your music sometime.

"Who you are speaks so loudly...I can hardly hear what you are saying"

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