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I am tired
I am tired
I am tired
I Sleep fitfully
Wake restlessly
I am tired
I am tired
I am tired
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My voice leaves me
When it has had enough
When I don’t give enough back
When I forget to feed and water it
I goes away
Until I coax it out again
With treats
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Oh to be a horse on a hill
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There is music you make happen
And music that happens to you
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My favorite thing about being an
Opera singer is that I get to stay a kid for just a little longer and sit in the floor with my friends in rehearsal
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All that I strive to be on this earth
Is kind
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I think about the day I run out of words
I think about the day they cease to come
I think about the day where I have painted every image
With every word in my brain
And they no longer spill out
The hemorrhage, the wound
Bound up
And I no longer need the words
Will I have 80 years
Or ten
Or maybe tomorrow I will lose them
Will I be grateful for their loss
Or will it just be another wound
Spilling out something else
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Breathlessly
Does it kill you to know that she’s into me
I just can’t take the proximity
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The lights on the stage managers coms
Look like eyes in the dark
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