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Whisht, the Wild Workings of the Mind

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Mama, you called me petal You called me dandelion But me, like every daughter I'm less of a girl with time Grant me dreams accordingly Wish me so refined But me, like every woman, I Suffer the wild workings of my mind Think to depths of wonder Wind pulls seeds asunder Wild workings of my mind Sell me down to hell, Mama Petal, bones and all Love is the most beautiful reason to fall I remember him and me Clutching to a boat Onward to the island Seek fifty thousand birds The puffins and the gannets They danced around our knees In heavenly fog be the breath of God That teased the dandelion seeds There's mountains on the moon, love Taller than what we see He held my heart against his heart Peace came over me Before he passed me on the stairs And fell into his sleep His long sleep for all time Wild workings of my mind They hunted me like buzzards would And me, the mad March hare Holding onto my true love And beating down the nightmare How wrong it was they found me On the wrong side of the water Drifting from your harness Full spirit falling, Mama Fast now into darkness Dark the depths of wonder Wild workings of my mind Sell me down to hell, Mama Petal, bones and all Love is the most cruel loss Mama, you befall And so on Sundays, Mama When you make your way to Mass Let me be the chapel bell Ringing in your heart Love is at its most still now As I fall back to the earth Let me be the chapel bell Ringing at my birth