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Virginia Sook - Don't Know Why I Was Born

from Split by Virginia Sook & Wendy Eisenberg

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Eyes as bright as blue corn
Don’t know why I was born
Don’t know why I was born

The flame, the realisation
The shadow is the form
Don’t know why I was born

So on we go now
Catching silk, translucent strings
Between God and the words of this song
But how the magpie bird
Treated me after the storm
It was pure god and there was nothing to interpret

Eyes as bright as blue corn
Don’t know why I was born
Don’t know why I was born

The scene plays over once more
Mum in a public hospital
So joyed that I was born

You’ve followed me home
So I thought that you should know
That I’m wild, like a landscape, when I cry

Let it remain unnamed
The sadness that swells with the rain
But then a comet appears

If you don’t look away
Baby don’t look away

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from Split, released December 8, 2017

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