On the Wing

from Heavens to Betsy by Camellia sinensis

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the smell of rain a sunny day dripping home to you
mushroom clouds through telephones are calling two by two
to answer in the dead of night,
and laid away in graves of light,
we'll sleep until tomorrow afternoon
and morning does it feel alright,
that swallowed sorrow with delight
is shifting in your stomach stormy soon

sp spectacled and starry-eyed my harlequin does go
with hollowed hearts and thorned sides my love and i will know
the lengths the sunshine branches reach
and mermaids singing each to each
dressed in gowns and drowning in the snow
and there upon the frozen beach,
my love, it's you i do beseech
you dive beneath the water's waning glow

through dial tones and lazy love, our last lament is nigh
but ocean breathing babies boasting damsels on the sly,
composing letters in a dream,
whose clothes are torn and only seams,
are whispering a final, sweet goodbye
as if they'd never ever mean
to be so freely on the wing
so kiss me once again before we die

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from Heavens to Betsy, released January 27, 2012

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