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“Mermaid’s Daughter”

Do you know that you’re exquisite?
Do you know you’re from the stars?
What’s your understanding of it?
Don’t you know how loved you are?

Have you seen your eyes shining,
Stars reflecting on the water?
My heart is torn down to the binding
By some delinquent mermaid’s daughter

Waiting for her to come to me
She’s screaming, “He should have been mine”
She gives the little snakeskin dagger
To cut the shadow from my mind

I try to run, to fight to hide
I tried to breathe under the water
But I find her still inside
I still love you, Neptune’s daughter

Anguish is my second language
Drowning in my little pond
Echoing with perfect pitch
Now I’m here and now I’m gone.

Our skeleton’s collapse together
A thousand years have come and gone
Here we are again to wonder
If anything was ever wrong.

You don’t know how much I love you
You don’t know me, who I am
I could take your anguish from you
You only need to take my hand

Lyrics by Daisy McCrackin