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Kingdoms

from Mandarin Song by Virginia Sook

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lyrics

Oh an anchor was built from the cells of my skin
If I could just reach out and touch it.
And a game we would play at the end of the day
The kingdoms would crash down before us
The rubble swept up before dinner.

I’d appear clad in soot like an old soldiers boot
I’d sneer and I’d suffer my sentence
Soft whispers beneath sheets
About structures so sovereign built when I’d finally outgrown my mother
But now my foot can’t squeeze into her slipper.

No little light bulb to be refit
‘Cause no little wick was left unlit
When I told you not to be afraid I referred to the shadows in caves
When the weak and domestic run away.

Oh a compass composed of the bones in my toes
Pray I could just know where I’m going.
And this routine gets played over day after day
My hands now resemble sandpaper
My spirit as poor as a beggar.

No little light bulb to be refit
‘Cause no little wick was left unlit
On the day she did not return home
You left a message on my telephone
Said ‘Oh look at all the bad things I’ve done’
And I trembled like gelatin
And I whimpered as though I’d been branded.

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from Mandarin Song, released October 14, 2016

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