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Your Child's Leaving Home

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lyrics

Old man set fire to your wasteland
take that forlorn mask up off your face
the phantoms that kindle candles on your mantle
are never going to be reborn nor be replaced

there's rusted bells on weathered ropes on top of mountains
where only wildflowers ever go
I fell asleep and dreamed I heard them laughing
beneath the pale moon on a field of fallen snow

Your child's leaving home now, though you seek her out at twilight
and she answers when you call out her name
she's leaving home now, you may as well admit it
you're never going to be the same

My sister said that Kali was goddess
The lawyer said that baby Jesus was a man
The Rabbi said Kafka had a cockroach
I told that man John Lennon had a band

I understand that death can be seductive
and I've often seen how justice knows no shame
but don't tell me this isn't a game, of course this is a game
Go take a side, I'll take the blame, I'm not afraid

Your child's leaving home now, though you seek her out at twilight
and she answers when you call out her name
she's leaving home now, you may as well admit it
you're never going to be the same

I survived the fortune teller
I drowned the fraud who threw I ching
to cut the constellations loose from fearful puppet strings
My little birds make wicked masks with pretty painted wings
when darkness falls we congregate and sing

I saw the faithless girl who claimed to be a widow
I heard the samurai who whispered from a cave
Get off the road, take off your clothes, forget your friends
untie your foes, nobody knows you are a ghost jump out your grave

Your child's leaving home now, though you seek her out at twilight
and she answers when you call out her name
she's leaving home now, you may as well admit it
you're never going to be the same (2x)

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from THERE IS NO NEED TO NAME THE MOON, released February 14, 2014

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1. Girl group for the living and the dead. 2. Characterized by layered imagery, and internal rhyme. 3. Your soundtrack to evade capture by the police.

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