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Burning Pearls

from Dandilionheart by Dani Lee Pearce

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lyrics

Restless sleeping waltzes
carving a rigid vision strange
i watch as the moon leaves
with no love left to give
i watch as the spiders return,
they know now is their prime
i watch as the trees grow spikes
and send a whisper call to the ocean
Tomorrow I learn why is it that I can burn
but leave no ashes behind
Today I will be in the present I see
for the first real time
I Yesterday learned again how to be cleansed
at least for the time
and dreaming of Burning Pearls in the places
that reach too high

Come on now let's start the
flooding of the wishing well
let's watch our ugly reality
crawl on out of its shell
the blood they spill
make their blood congeal
into the fairest soil in the land
and grinds into the skin tearing grains in the sand
let me dream, I'm not afraid of you
let me dream, I'm not afraid of you
let me dream, I'm not afraid of you
let me dream, I'm not afraid of you
let me dream, I'm not afraid

you run so quickly
grasping
burning pearls
that melt your hands

The black death shoots into the sky
but the oxes keep sleeping
the rulers of fate and the keepers of time
have no clocks in their keeping
they hail to the thief, to the lord of the sith
who never thinks he's wrong just disagreed with
dancing on the grasping fingers of the new palace vines
looking to spatter a smidgen of grime
like a potion in a cursed wizards eyes
and the sun comes down to incinerate
the fake dream of impossible paradise
that to one too many was the
guiding black-light of a useless life

Come on now let's start the flooding of the wishing well
let's watch our ugly reality crawl on out of its shell
why should I submit to a complacent eye
when it is blind to me
when you have died for it
they lie to liars
cry to their altars in shame
let me dream, I'm not afraid of you
let me dream, I'm not afraid of you
let me dream, I'm not afraid of you
let me dream, I'm not afraid of you
let me dream, I'm not afraid

you run so quickly
grasping
burning pearls
that melt your hands
so quickly
grasping
burning pearls
that melt your hands
so quickly
grasping
burning pearls
that melt your hands
so quickly
grasping
burning pearls
that melt your
sinister
ageing
molting
hands

let me dream
I'm not afraid

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from Dandilionheart, released July 22, 2017
written on June 4, 2016 and February 10, 2017

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nb trans songwriter orignally from the west coast

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