It is the Swan on the Table

from The Mystery is How by Ella Joyce Buckley

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IT IS THE SWAN ON THE TABLE

You are here
You have everything you've feared
and so does the mirror
the snake and the deer
the quickening pull
the quickening pulse
cracking the scent of silence

I am awake for you when there is no love near
though I'm just as likely to find my own grave
I am also afraid
I have thrown my whole life away
you will not speak if I stay
I cannot do this again and again and again
even if it were the full moons I have blamed
truly it was the lovelessness
that stayed the same
even when I swore the planets changed

"I saw them change"
"I saw them change"

It is the swan on the table
its dead neck in an S
the men with feathers in their mouths
leaving the eggs cold in the nest
will my heart die alone with the best?
I had framed my head on its chest
I have been lonely
but that's me
under my own arrest
with this feeling

despite all these maybes
come home and stay a while
despite all these maybes
come home and stay a while
despite all these maybes
come home and stay
a while

despite all this
come home and stay
despite all of this
maybe

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from The Mystery is How, released August 4, 2020
Ella Joyce Buckley: vocals / metallic zither / electric guitar / FX / synthesizers / foley / keyboards / percussion / bass
Suki Antonia (Sgt.Suki): violin

Written by Ella Joyce Buckley
Produced, Engineered, Arranged and Mixed by Ella Joyce Buckley with Dirk Hugo
Final Mix and Master by Dirk Hugo

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