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acoustic maddie and bill white - The Bride

from The Rhizome by Bill White and Friends

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For years I roamed through sullen fields
Not knowing Ii was dead
Living out my lifetime dreams
Inside my broken head

Until one day in the month of \may
A messenger arrived
To say I must marry a living man
If I were to survive

And so I roamed the city streets
In search of such a person
Who would bring me back to life
Before my situation worsened.

For still I had the form of life
Though my insides had rotted
And i could pass for one alive
Although my guts had clotted

I found him as he searched for me
Entangled in a dream
From which poured images of verse
Into vanishing streams

I dared not wake this living man
Nor lie down by his side
Instead I joined him in his dream
And there became his bride

And with his kiss I was made whole
And found life everlasting
In dreams there is no first or last
No vacant shadows passing

We are as solid as the land
As fluid as the ocean
Life in death or death in life
Such antiquated notions

He is a breathing dreamer
And I the dreamers breath
He somehow has cheated life
While I have cheated death

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from The Rhizome, released March 18, 2023
music, production, vocal acoustic maddie
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