Goldman

from Melancholia by Melanie A. Davis

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Beneath the moon she sings a song she hasn’t sung before
Serrated imitation, soft contemplation, waiting to run the course
She watches the waves red as wine
Dance back and forth into the brine
That swallows every strand of fragmented light

Yet she cries and she swoons for her kingdom that fell
When the poor masters of the earth drew up ringleaders of hell
Her gaze cuts through the night as lords and concubines
Break the reeds and burn the strings in jagged bursts of time

I’d search said she every nook of the land,
Over hell and half of Georgia I’d go to find a man
Who weaves gold out of the air
Spins his hands and then it’s there
And would his fingers dancing now with such
Tender consideration look the same as they are
Dancing through my hair, oh touch me there

Sifting through syntax, devouring lines
Searching for scraps of what in her mind
Is a dream of herself, self cast and self praised
Wrapped round the towers that seen better days

Dipped in the blue of an Atlantic hue
Searching for sounds both poignant and true
Strands of gold tie her hands to his
In the light of the evening, in the wake of a wish

I’d search said she every nook of the land,
Over hell and half of Georgia I’d go to find a man
Who weaves gold out of the air
Spins his hands and then it’s there
And would his fingers dancing now with such
Tender consideration look the same as they are
Dancing through my hair, oh touch me there

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from Melancholia, released May 9, 2018

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Melanie A. Davis Murray, Kentucky

Singer-songwriter from western Kentucky. I sing about me, you, us, and the wild weird world we're currently living in.

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