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Marie, Baby

from Murder Tapes by Melanie A. Davis

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You were so fair, my Marie,
lovely brown hair and eyes that agree
with the leaves in the month of May
An angel known to man, would you tell your old man
that these hands were the ones that took those emeralds away?

When I was just seventeen,
someone came to my dreams and told me
I would have the hands of God
but I've found, I'm afraid, that the dance between skin and blade
is one that my hands have forgot.

Goodnight, our beautiful cigar girl
through your lips, soft white, smoke unfurls
into a halo, a round glow, that shimmers in your sleep
Down my soul goes for I know the Devil has certain promises to keep

I won't forget how your hair looked so wet down there,
floating, freely, dancing on the water's crest
But I hear you still when my ears, they fill with fragments still
of the tune you loved best.

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from Murder Tapes, released July 8, 2016

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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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