Torch Song: Mad Song
       

The wind wants me to lose
my mind again william
The wind and the boy
and the chain I see him
dragging down the street

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Circle an owl and they say
he will wring his own neck
A screech so like the storm
when it carries off your voice
your face in its mute vigil

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