Lyrics were provided by Elaine Elizabeth Belz, based on her pantoum, "40". Read more about this wonderful poem and its origins here: hitrecord.org/records/231323. While you're at it, check out the other artists hooked up to this amazing site, run by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
lyrics
Must this dark picture be my destiny?
In your penned note, I hear my own voice call…
The windows turn to mirrors at night-fall,
As I act scenes from your blind prophecy.
In your penned note, I hear my own voice call –
The woman you were, I will one day be.
As I act scenes from your blind prophecy,
I watch my life drip slowly down the wall:
The woman you were, I will one day be.
Here, in your last words, you describe it all –
I watch my life drip slowly down the wall;
I grope to salvage what is left of me.
Here in your last words you describe it all.
Must this dark picture be my destiny?
I grope to salvage what is left of me…
The windows turn to mirrors at night-fall.
credits
from Mount St Helens,
released December 24, 2010
Music, vocals - Jeremy Mullins
Lyrics - Elaine Elizabeth Belz
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