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I got new skin so I hide from the light
You got new skin cause you’re just a babe
So let’s hide in the shade till you sleep in my arms

In the Tampa Bay Sun

I’m afraid of the water cause I can’t swim
You look so happy just playing in the sand
So let’s hang on dry land
I hope you had fun

In the Tampa Bay Sun

Iyla Grace, with that serious face
You’re gonna break some hearts

Hey body, blood and water
Bridges ‘tween my shoulders
Across my eyes and to my nose
I’m cross-eyed trying to fall asleep

Hey body, bones and marrow
Cannons in my belly
Tearing sails across my windpipe
Hear the bugle blows of war

This is what a body’s for

Straights and angles, wheels and arrows
Flying from my chest, The Highgrounds
Home to shielded strongpoint
Why my heart wins all the wars
My heart wins all the wars

This is what a heart is for

Hey body, blood and water
Bones and marrow, straights and angles
Fold your bridges, quiet your cannons
Patch the sails and break the arrows

My heart wins all the wars.

Plucked from the branch of an olive tree
My love she brought a leaf to me
Written upon that very leaf
My love she wrote a poem to me
I waited long and patiently
My love she had rewarded me
Sadly I walked upon a field
to see what comfort it would yield

And as I walked my private way
An olive branch before me lay

Seeing it I made a stay
took it up and viewed it then
Kissing the omen I said Amen

Be be it so and let this be
a divination unto me
That in short time my woes will cease
and love shall crown my end with peace

The wind, a breath came over me
blew from my hand that very leaf

The end our death she’d sent to me
At least we did die peacefully

This is the gift love gave to me
Love gave to me

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