They were married in the 1986 summer light
June the 14th, hearts burning bright...
hands held close, vows soft and true
The kind of love that every one at some time in their life,
wishes they once knew

Off they flew to Bermuda skies..
A pipe dream colored in pink pastel sunset ocean tides...
and somewhere deep beneath that beauty of blue..
A storm was born
and my sister came through
born with a brain defect
maybe the wake of the boat had some strange effect
Too much moon in her blood
first daughter, lost in the water, lotus in the mud
And now I see it in the mirror’s face...
that same ache in me
and it's sinking
my belief.
and suddenly I'm an ocean floor
and I am swallowed by the melancholy
siren songs..
Mom and Dads bones lay there.
What ill have left is
Diana, a permanent forever piece of them
I am there, empty

my sister, oh
I love her like the sea loves the shore
Even when her waves pulled me apart..
she was always the echo inside my heart
We’re daughters of something fragile and blue
hurricane Andrew almost got us in August 1992
We carry moms sea queen crown and the salt stained heartache
dads sunken anchor, his burdened fate
still trying not to break

Now I wanna say, I know I **** it up...
I’m not always a good woman to you..
I hide like a mermaid in the waves
part of me just cant be true.

I am etched from a broken tide
where love goes missing...
where heartbreaking secrets can capsize
a daughter of the oceans cry
You offer safe harbors
but I only know shipwrecks
You give me your hands
and I bring you hexed sands ( and I see it falling through and I go away)
I never learned still, I only know flight
a gull in the dark...
a ghost in the night.

I’m a broken dove from a perfect sky...
Born of love too wild to survive...
Caught in the triangle they sailed over as they wined and dined
A song of a lying lullaby

She wore white and he stood strong, tall
I’ve seen the pictures and the writing on the wall
They looked like stars before the fall...
they danced til they crawled...
Their smiles sweet like island rain
But in their kiss I could see the strain
The beauty bloomed...then came the cost
Two girls
born of love… and loss.

I’m a broken bird from a perfect sky
Born of love too wild to survive
Caught in the triangle they carried home and left behind...
and im Floating through the ghost of their design
They gave me wings
filled my heart
with wilted babys breath

And I wonder if they ever knew
That paradise could splinter too
That from the brightest wedding flame
Could hurt
two girls who bear their name…
Like a curse, like a prayer
both the answer and the shame

I’m a broken dove, still trying to fly,
when I close my eyes, i'm suddenly surrounded by a Bermuda sky.
They loved like fire and they meant no harm
But I was born inside their storm
They gave me love, they gave me death
And crowned it all with baby’s breath

How can I ever believe that love could last
When I am born from pirates gold
turned
broken
sea glass