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The Mermaid

from All Monsters to Angels by Rome Burns

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lyrics

Stood on dry land far too long,
I’ve forgotten how to breach,
My sisters’ sounds are reduced to waves,
Tide to time, and each to each,
I am dry and rasping by an empty beach.
I’ve claimed a million mariners,
Held them till they ceased,
Then slowly let them drift apart,
To all ports as a piece,
Now I am dry and rasping by the ocean’s reach.

Cursed upon the broken shore, Gulping like the struggling catch,
Uncomfortable in peeling skin, My broken nails scratch,
I don’t want to be here,
I don’t want to be here anymore,
I don’t want to be here,
I don’t want to be here anymore.

I don’t regret my bloody past,
Gulls that scream in wake,
Those in peril come to me,
With sinking hearts and thirsts to sate,
I did my worst, here and now I wait.

Cursed upon the broken shore, Gulping like the struggling catch,
Uncomfortable in peeling skin, My broken nails scratch,
I don’t want to be,
I don’t want to be another,
I don’t want to be,
I don’t want to be another.

Maybe I’ve imagined this:
Eyes are wet and skin is dry,
Reverse, perverse, a liminal dream,
Above the waters, head held high,
Never deeper, never fathom why.

Cursed upon the broken shore,
Gulping like the struggling catch,
Uncomfortable in peeling skin,
My broken nails scratch,
I don’t want to be here,
I don’t want to be here anymore,
I don’t want to be here,
I don’t want to be here anymore,

I don’t want to be here,
I don’t want to be another,
I don’t want to be,
Another wreck upon the broken shore.

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from All Monsters to Angels, released December 7, 2019

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