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Ballad of Dolores and the Door

Life is a manor haunted by doors

All of its rooms bore my tread

Life is a manor haunted by doors

but there is this door, she said

 

 

Dolores paced al-through the nights

with dread in front of the door

Dolores paced al-through the nights

this ill-fated dark Dolor

 

 

No lullabyes can lull her to sleep

some mornings bereft of light

No lullabyes can lull her to sleep

for there is a door, she said

 

 

*My darling, darling, darling girl

daughter it’s all in your head

My darling, darling, lov-ed girl

your mother weeps in her bed

 

 

Oh mother mine allay your tears

to-morrow shall find me fled

This manor with rooms a-plenty to yield

but there is this door, she said.*

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johanna-may
Canadian
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Sep 27, 2011
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