jenny hval lyrics

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I lift and sink with ebb and flow
My heart is a black lake
Rippling inside my chest

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What is a home but the place you'll be dying?
And what's far away but places to lose yourself?

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Because we have no language to express that it was both
Ravishing, ravishing
Destructive, and most of all, most of all:
Absolutely necessary

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This blood bitch's tale
It goes a bit like this

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I've eaten apple kernels to sing you apple trees

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And when you do react
You react with body parts you didn't know you had
Very small ones, like all the little hairs you don't normally feel in your body

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Look at these trees
Look at this grass
Look at those clouds
Look at them now
And look at them now

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'What's this album about, Jenny?'

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You can't even hold down holy water

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I was waiting, forbidden
No one knew I was waiting, not even you

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You are your own disco ball

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The next day, it is I who break
It's a clear spring day and I fill with sky

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As I write this I must pretend someone's holding my hand
Probably someone dead

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I woke to find that I have lost my soul
Where my soul was there is a big black hole
Hollow hollow hollow hollow hollow
The black lake took and the black lake gave

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Cigarette butts
Candy wrapper
A button, a slug
Shoes came here, and here, and here
Someone once lay down here

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My palms are picking up radio signals
Speaking in tongues from time to time
Speaking in tongues from palm to palm

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I got afraid that I'd dug too deep
Stirred up something in the body
The glands of instinct, fear, and desire

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I came back with a broken summer and a broken spine

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Pearls roll-roll in the shell at night
Little rocks on a crusted tongue

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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust