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Carnival Killer Boogie

from Garden Variations by Cory Fay

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You could always
sing 'em all to sleep
by the time they start to bleed
they wouldn't feel a thing
and their spines would come apart in between your teeth

but in the fading lights
you wear that dress I've always liked
and find a place to lie
somewhere I'll believe even on honest nights

I remember her starry hair and crystal,
August heat felt like sleep
she made me feel like I was in a dream
that she had when my mother was just a kid, I sat on her lap
watching people on the midway

You know that
all you've ever been
is a nervous circus freak
trying to pretend
that the others don't see

Why don't you bury it for good?
The garden's grown in grey.
You'll pass into dust
with the lions and all
what will people say?

Oh
wasn't it grand?
wasn't it like magic?
how the world seemed to bend into imagination
How the stars in her hair fell out over the summers
but the Carnival would never ever forget her

I remember every thing wrong in places that don't
fit with the way the light looks in the pictures
I can't tell who was talking
I can't find my favorite dress, I miss all the nights I surely have forgotten
I can't see what I can't see
was it always quite this dark?
Describe to me the lightening
were the storms always this hard?

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from Garden Variations, released September 16, 2017

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